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“ Sky being overclouded, all the Clouds over the 
c< Hemifphere, turned of a fudden to a deep b!ood- 
“ red Colour, for fifteen Minutes 5 then fucceeded red 
“ Streamers for half an Hour." 
footing, Feb. 1 6 . 
1 749-5°. 
I am your , and the 
Royal Society’s , 
mojl obedient Servant , 
H. Miles. 
XV. A Letter from Mr, William Watfon, 
F. R. S, to the Royal Society, declaring 
that he as well as many others have not bee?i 
able to make Odours pafs thro ’ Glafs by 
means of Electricity ; and giving a parti- 
cular Account of Profejfor Bofe at Wittem- 
berg his Experiment of Beatification, or 
caufrag a Glory to appear round a Man s 
Head by Electricity. 
Gentlemen, 
Read Mar. i . ^ 8 ^ H E Inquiry into the Nature and 
I /49'S°* Properties of EIcCtricity has been, 
within thefe few Years, the Purfuit of many excel- 
lent and ingenious Perfons ; and mod of its extraor- 
dinary Phxnomena, which have been made to appear 
in one Place, have, with proper Attention to the 
requifite Circumftanccs, appeared in others : But 
there 
