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between 
he radii of the two bodies, will be repelled from it 
with more force than if it be placed at the fame 
dilfance from the larger body. 
if L‘n"^ be wdl aiTurcd that 
If two fimilar bodies are connedled together bv a 
efcaf^f f overcharged, the fluid nfuft 
efcape fafler from tlie fmaller body than from an 
equal fni-face of the larger ; but as the furface of the 
oufhl ^ /r * ^ «'’!oh body 
ought to lofe mod eledtncity i„ the fame time ; and 
mdeed tt feems .mpolfible to determine pofi ively 
from this theory which fhould, as ,t depends in gre/t 
meafure on the manner m vi^hich the air oppofes the 
entrance of die eledtric fluid into it. Perhaps in fome 
degrees of eleanfication the fmaller body may lofe 
molt, and in others the laro-er. j j 
_ Let now A CB (fig. 1 8.) be a conical point ftand- 
ingon any body DAB, C being the ven-tex of the 
cone ; and let D a B be overcharged : I imagine that 
a particle of fluid pl.accd dole to the furface of the 
cone anywhere between h and C, mull be repelled 
with at leaft as much, if not more, force than it 
would, if the part hab^oi the cone was taken 
away, and the part^^Ci^ conneded to DAB bv a 
Bender canal ; and conibquemly, from what has been 
laid before. It feems reafonable to fuppofe that the 
wafte of eledlncity from the end of the cone mull be 
very great in proportion to its furface ; thouvb it 
does not appear from this reafoning vvhethc? the 
wafte ot elcaricity from the wliole cone Ihould be 
gieatei or lefs than from a cylinder of the lame bale 
and altitude. 
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