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any other Method, fhould fend forth fuch Screams 
of them, only on their being brought within a few 
Inches of the eiedrified Rod, and that thefe Streams 
fhould increafe as the Rod is more ftrongly electri- 
fied } and yet that few or none of thefe Streams fhould 
iffue from thole Bodies in which the Effluvia can 
be excited : And if the firft-mention’d Bodies are 
themfelves flrongly impregnated, the Streams will 
difappear, and they will be fo far from parting with 
any of their Effluvia , that, on the contrary, they 
will be flrongly repelled by die Rod. 
I farther apprehend, on this Suppofition, it will 
be extremely difficult, if not impoffible, to account 
for the ceafing ot the Stream from the Point of the 
Non-electric on flopping the Machine 5 as like wife that 
the Rod fhould fo loon be divetled of its Effluvia , on 
fuch a Non-eledric’s being held near it, which it 
would otherwife retain for feveral Hours, and which 
1 think is a flrong Proof of the Effluvia's palling 
from the Rod into the Non clc&ric. And that it 
certainly does fo, may be confirmed by the Perfon 
who holds the Non-eledric flepping upon a Cake of 
Wax, when he will foon become eledrical, from the 
Effluvia he will receive (thro’ the Point of the N011- 
eledric) from the Rod i but fo long as he continues to 
fe fo, there will not be feen any Light to iffue from the 
Point j which I apprehend cannot be accounted for 
on any other Principle, but that of the fetting in of 
the Effluvia at the Point of the Non-ele&ric. And 
as I have already fhewn, that all the Ehanomena arc 
naturally to be accounted for on this Principle, with- 
out being liable to any of the above-mention’d Ob- 
jections, I muft remain of the Opinion (till I can fee 
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