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furroundcd by a Glory, fuch a one in fome meafurc, 
as is rcprefented by Painters in their ornamenting the 
Heads of Saints: That in this State if the ele&rifed 
Man is touched by one that is not, the Pain felt by 
both is very fevere, reaches from the Finger to the 
Shoulder, and remains a long time. Profedbr BcJ'e , 
in another Part of his * Writings, fays. That the 
Beatification indeed does not always fucceed with 
him } that fometimes, when other Circuftances have 
been very favourable, a Man will be beatified by one 
Sphere in two Minutes; at other times, two or 
three Globes will not do it under fix or eight Mi- 
nutes; and even at fometimes after twenty Minutes, 
when five or fix Globes were made ufe of, no Luht 
has been vifible : That under the fame Circumftances, 
when one Perfon was capable of being beatified, 
another was not. This is a Ihort Account of Pro- 
fclfor Bofe s Beatification, given in his Writings, in 
which, neverthclefs, nothing of what he fays eflential 
to the Operation is omitted. 
This Experiment, which was not only a defirable 
Thing to be fecn, but as it feemed to communicate 
to non-eleftric Bodies a greater Quantity of Elec- 
tricity than any other did, that of Leyden excepted, 
1 was very defirous of repeating : But though I omitted 
no Trouble, and varied not the lead Circumftance, that 
could any ways conduce thereto, I was difappointed. 
I tried the combined Force of many Globes, of dif- 
ferent Machines, in the bed Weather, and with dif- 
ferent Perfons, but no Radiation in the manner before- 
mentioned. When I underwent this Operation my- 
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