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XXII. New Experiments in EleElricity : In 
a Letter from Mr . Ebenezer Kinnerfley, 
to Benjamin Franklin, LL . D. F. R. S. 
Read Nov. 18, 1762, March 24, and April 14, 1763. 
SIR, Philadelphia, Mar. 12, 1761. 
H AVING lately made the following experi- 
ments, I very chearfully communicate them, 
in hopes of giving you fome degree of pleafure, and 
exciting you to further explore your favourite, but 
not quite exhaufted, fubjedt, Electricity. 
EXP. I. 
I placed myfelf on an eledtric {land, and, being 
well eledtrifed, threw my hat to an uneledtrifed per- 
fon, at a confiderable difiance, on another Hand, and 
found, that the hat carried fome of the electrici- 
ty with it y for, upon going immediately to the per- 
fon, who received it, and holding a flaxen thread near 
him, I perceived he was eledtrifed fufficiently to at- 
tradt the thread. 
EXP. II. 
I then fufpended, by filk, a broad plate of metal, 
and eledtrifed fome boiling water under it, at about 
four feet diftance, expedting that the vapour, which 
afcended plentifully to the plate, would, upon the 
principle of the foregoing experiment, carry up fome 
of the eledtricity with it 3 but was at length fully con- 
vinced, by feveral repeated trials, that it left all its 
fliare 
