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he placed a man upon a filk net, who held the chain 
in his hand, and after having eledrifed him with the 
fphere containing balfam of Peru for a quarter of an 
hour, any perfon, who was perfectly ignorant of 
what was doing, would immediately fmell the bal- 
fam therein. The man, who was eledlrifed, faid, that 
his tea next morning had a finer tafte than ufual. 
As thefe experiments did not fucceed here, though 
attempted with a due attention to whatever could be 
imagined neceflary thereto ; and as they had done fo 
no-where upon the continent, Italy alone excepted, 
Dr. Mortimer was defired by the Royal Society to 
acquaint Mr. Winkler of this want of fuccefs, and 
at the fame time to defire him to tranfmit hither, not 
only a circumftantial account of the manner of making 
his experiments, but likewife, left the difference of the 
refult might ariie from employing different" kinds 
of glafs, fome globes and tubes fitted up under his 
own eye in the moft advantageous manner. This 
Mr. Winkler was fo obliging as to comply with j 
and accordingly the Society has received from him 
two globes and four tubes ; and at the fame time 
this gentleman fent a letter to Dr. Mortimeri dated at 
Leipfic, Nov. 23, 1750, of which the following is 
a tranflation from the Latin of fo much as relates to 
thefe matters. 
“ You defire me, as foon as the grief for the lofs 
<c of my wife would permit me, to explain, in the 
tl moft clear and intelligible manner, my experi- 
“ ments, whereby fpices and balfams, by their fra- 
u grance, pervade glafs, when eledtrifed. Glafs globes 
“ and tubes ought to have this property, that, when 
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