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and lightning, will render his reputation lading in the 
learned world. We differed in opinion with regard 
to the point in queftion ; neverthelefs I found him 
ready to give me all the afliffance in his power, for 
bringing the matter to a fair decifion. I had feen 
him pierce a quire of paper with a ftroke of electri- 
city ; and as I perceived it had been ftruck feveral 
times before, I defired he would give it me, that I 
might at leifure examine the effects of the fundry 
ftrokes. 
When I came to do fo, I obferved, that at every 
hole which had been made through the quire, the 
upper and the under leaf (for the quire had been laid 
in an horizontal pofition when it was ftruck) were 
ragged about the orifice, and thofe ragged edges 
pointed moftly outwards from the body of the quire. 
But what was more material ; when I came to turn 
over the leaves, 1 found, that the edges of the holes 
were bent regularly two different ways (and more re- 
markably fo about the middle of the quire), one part 
of each hole upwards, and the other part downwards j 
fo that, tracing any particular hole as it traverfed the 
quire, I found on one fide the fibres pointed one way, 
and on the other fide the other way ; much in fuch a 
manner, as if the hole had been made in the quire, by 
drawing two threads in contrary directions through 
it. 
This was not all : A piece of paper, covered on one 
fide with Dutch gilding, had been accidentally left 
between two leaves in the quire, and had been pierced 
by two different ftrokes. This exhibited a very re- 
markable appearance : Where each of the ftrokes had 
been given, the gold leaf was ftripoed off, and had 
left 
