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fmall chain from the cufhion into a glafs of oil of 
turpentine, and carried another cha'n from the oil of 
turpentine to the floor, taking care, that the chain 
from the cufhion to the glafs touched no part of the 
frame of the machine. Another chain was fixed to 
the prime conductor, and held in the hand of a per- 
fon to be electrified. The ends of the two chains in 
the glafs were near an inch from each other, the oil 
of turpentine between. Now the globe being turned 
could draw no fire from the floor through the ma- 
chine, the communication that way being cut off by 
the thick glafs plate under the cufhion : it muft then 
draw it through the chains, whofe ends were flipp'd 
in the oil of turpentine. And as the oil of turpen- 
tine being in fome degree an eleCtric per fe , would 
not conduct what came up from the floor, the elec- 
tricity was obliged to jump from the end of one chain 
to the end of the other, which he could fee in 
large fparks ; and thus it had a fair opportunity of 
feizing of the fineft particles of the oil in its paffage, 
and carrying them off with it : but no fuch effeCt 
followed, nor could he perceive the leaft difference in 
the fmell of the eleCtrical effluvia thus collected, 
from what it had when collected otherwife f nor 
does it otherwife affeCt the body of the perfon elec- 
trified. He likewife put into a phial, inflead of wa- 
ter, a flrong purging liquid, and then charged the 
phial, and took repeated fhocks from it ; in which* 
cafe every particle of the eleCtrical fluid muff, before 
it went through his body, have firfl gone thro’ the 
liquid, when the phial is charging, and returned 
through it when discharging ; yet no other effeCt fol- 
lowed than if the phial had been charged with water. 
He 
