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know what they really were : For which Reafon he 
has juft now fent a Memoir to the Duke of Rich - 
mond, in which will be feen the moft circumftantial 
Account he has been able to procure of them at 
Turin , at Venice , and at Bologna. For his own Part, 
he thinks that there has been a great deal of Preju- 
dice, Credulity, and Exaggeration ; to which may be 
added, very little Care and Caution in making thefe 
Experiments. He is now forry he has loft fo much 
time in attempting to make them; and thinks Mr. 
JVinckler has been too hally in alfcrting, that he had 
repeated thefe Italian Experiments: But why fhould 
he call them Italian , when the Nation he fays will 
not allow the Appellation, and except three Pcrfons, 
he finds there no Defender of what has been laid to 
be done ; and adds, that there is not a Philofophcr 
of Repute there, who believes them any more than 
himfelf? 
This Experiment then feems not to arrive at what 
we have been told; but, for further Information, we 
muft wait till the Reception of Abbe Nollet's 
Memoir. 
The other is, an Experiment called by Profefibr 
Bofe at Wittemburgy the Apotheojis or Beatification. 
The making this Experiment, in the Manner men- 
tioned by this Gentleman in his Writings, has been 
attained to by none. He fays, if in ele&riling you 
employ large Globes, and place a Man upon a large 
Cake of Pitch, by little and little a lambent Flame 
arifes from the Pirch, and fpreads itfclf around his 
Feet; from hence by Degrees it is propagated to his 
Knees, his Body, and at laft to his Head: That then 
by continuing the Elcftrifation the Man’s Head is 
fur- 
