^'ShtTir^H ’ 'he canals 
fcr. A«rr«T,f 
■T 1 1 . ^ in nopes that foine mnr<=* fHi 
reall7hoTd“gootor noi'.'"' ''''' “ “’ey' 
carrt',^’l!"'‘Pc'“^ ‘hat this is the 
ments I ha^<- I h'om feme experi- 
ments 1 have made, the quantitv of fluid in HifFpr^ ^ 
bod.es_agrees very well with thofe propofitions oTa 
ruppoficon that the eledric repuin<fn fs Selv as 
le Pquare of the d.ftance. It lliould alfo feem from 
thofe experiments, that the quantity of redundant Ir 
eficient fluid in two bodies, bore very nearly the fame 
proportion to each other, whatever is^he fhare of tbe 
cana Iby which they are joined, or in whatever direc 
tion they are lituated in refpea of each other. 
b m propofitions Ihould be found not 
lafr JlMi’i "'’’•T by reaf 
canals, ftiJl it is evident, that in the 22d pronofition 
.f the plates AB and DF are very near togethef th; 
quantity of redundant fluid, in the plate A B w 11 be 
many times greater than that in the body H fun! 
as A B, and D F will be near as much, undercharged 
as A B IS overcharged. 
rfrf '/ fuppofes that air confifts of par- 
a he diftanr‘'''’'b -"^^rfrly 
as the diflance : but it appears plainly from the fore- 
gotng pages, that if the repulfion of the particles was 
in 
