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there have happened two very remarkable Excep- 
tions to this Rule. The firft is, that the Odours of 
odoriferous Subftanccs do not only pervade, from 
FriCtion, the Glafles which contain them, but that 
thefe Odours were carried along with the Current 
of Ele&ricity into fuch non electric Bodies as were 
defined to receive them, and manifefted themfelves 
in thofe Bodies by communicating to them their 
Smell, and other Properties. Thefe, and other things 
yet more extraordinary, were faid to have been per- 
formed by Mr. pivati at Venice, and to have been 
repeated by Mr. Winkler at Leip/ick ; but, though 
no Care or Expence has been (pared, either by Abbe 
Nollet at Paris, Mr. Jallabert at Geneva, Mr. Bofe 
at Wittemberg, Pere Garo at 'Turin, and by myfelf 
at London , to bring about the fame Etfcfts, they 
have hitherto been unfuccefsful. For which Reafon 
the Truth of thefe Relations has been greatly que- 
ftioned by many 5 as Mr. Buccamare , in a * Treatile 
ft nee publifhed, fays, that Mr. Pivati donfefled to 
thofe, who add refled themfelves to him to fee the 
Experiments, that more efpecially made withBalfam 
of Peru, that it never fucceedcd but once, and that 
he could never repeat it. I likewife received Yefter- 
day a Letter from our worthy Broiher Abbe Kollet , 
who is juft returned to Paris from Turin and Italy . 
He fays, that his firft; Care was to inqurc into the 
Truth of thofe Wonders in Eledricity, of which we 
have heard fo much for almoft three Years, and which 
have not fucceedcd either with himfelf or me : And 
he imagines the Royal Society would be glad to 
* Tentamen de vi Eleffric. &c. p. 183. 
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