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Velocity being accelerated by the additional Attrac- 
tion, the Rays will become luminous at the Point 
pf the Non-ele&ric, the fame as at the Point of the 
elefttificd Rod. If this Experiment is made with a 
Tube, i nft e ad of a Sphere, as it cannot be fo uni- 
formly excited as the Sphere, the Light will iflue 
from the Rod in Flafhes, as the Tube is more or lefs 
excited. 
Several, very ingenious Gentlemen, and in parti- 
cular the Abbe Nsllet have imagined, that the Light - 
feen at the Point of the Non-cle&ric was produced 
by means of Effluvia ifluing from it in diverging 
Rays towards the electrified Rod, and which Cur- 
rent of Effluvia is therefore fuppofed to be the 
Caufe of the attra&ive, as a like Current iffuing at 
the fame time from the ele&rified Rod is fuppofed 
to be the Caufe of the repulfive Property of Elec- 
tricity. 
This Conje&ure being dire&ly contrary to the 
Account I have given of this Phenomenon , I fhall 
offer fome Conftdcrations in Support of what I have 
advanced, and which I think will make it appear 
highly improbable, that any fuch Current of Effluvia 
iffues out of the Non-ele&ric; but as what I have to 
offer on this Subject would trefpafs too much on 
the Society's Time at prefent, I fhall defer it to my 
next Paper. I am, 
Gentlemen , 
Tour obliged humble Servant , 
John Ellicott. 
