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eleCtrifed by turns therewith : but all this while no 
fmell of the balfam could be perceived by any of the 
company, either upon the equator of the^globe, the 
perfons ekCtrifed, the prime conductor, or any of the 
rubbers made ufe of ; though for this purpofe we 
carefully obferved, not only the method fuggefted by 
Mr. Winkler, but fuch others, as appeared to us the 
mod: conducive to the prefent purpofe. When the 
globe was heated, indeed by putting our nofes near 
the mounting, we could fmell the refin therein; but 
this was all. We employed quick motion, after- 
wards we permitted the globe to be Hill, and then 
began again with an extremely gentle motion ; but 
Hill no odour of the balfam could be perceived in 
the room, though for that purpofe a perfon was 
called in, well-fkilled in thefe odours, and who, from 
his coming frefh out of the air, it was fuggefted might 
more readily perceive them : but this, he declared, he 
was not capable of doing. 
We next tried the leffer globe containing cinnamon, 
and moft punctually obferved Mr. Winkler’s direc- 
tions, as he is more efpecially exaCt in what, he 
thinks, fhould be obferved to make this experiment 
fucceed : hut our endeavours were to no purpofe, 
for we could never, after many trials, either fmell 
the cinnamon, or make the electricity the leaft per- 
ceptible upon the prime conductor. This indeed was 
what I had always heretofore obferved, when I en- 
deavoured to make this experiment ; as fuch a quan- 
tity of non-eleCtric matter, unlefs the fides of the 
globe were very thick, prevented the exciting the 
eleCtrical power, even when I employed globes much 
iarger than this fent by Mr. Winkler. 
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