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I LIII. An Account of a 'Treat if e in French, 
prefen tecl to the Royal Society, intituled , 
<c Lettres fur l’Ele&ricitc, by the Abbe 
u Nollet, Member of the Royal Academy 
u of Sciences, See. See.” ify William Wat- 
fon, M. D. R. S. S. 
Gentlemen, 
Read Dec. 1 7, 
1761. 
A 
BOUT eight years fince, the learned 
and ingenious author of the work 
before us published a treatife, of which the prefent 
work may be confidered as a continuation. That 
confided of nine letters upon the fubjed of electri- 
city, which were addrefied to perfons, who had di- 
ftinguifhed themfelves by their endeavours to illufirate 
this part of natural philofophy. In like manner, the 
prefent performance confifts of eight letters, and is 
addrefied, as the former, to his friends and correfpon- 
dents. 
As an account of the former treatife was commu- 
nicated by myfelf to the Royal Society, and printed, 
by direction of the council, in the Philofophical T'ranf- 
adions *, the author requefis, at the end of the fif- 
teenth letter, which is addrefied to me, that I would 
give myfelf the additional trouble to lay before you 
an account of the prefent work. This requefi I mofi 
readily comply with, not only in obedience to the 
order of the Society, but likewife as a teftimony of 
* Vide Vol. XLVIII. p. 2or. 
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