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done, or whether it was with him as with many of 
the Difcovcrers of the Longitude, and of the Qua- 
drature of the Circle, I do not determine ; but thus 
it is, that his Experiment has been exhibited as Mr. 
Bofe’ s for two or three Years. 
I am unwilling to be thought to detrad from the 
Merit of this Experiment, which I think a very 
beautiful one ; but I take upon me to fay, that it 
differs as eflentially from every Part of that, faid to 
have been made by Profeflor Bofe , as any two elec- 
trical Experiments foever. 
In a Letter, 1 wrote the Beginning of laft Year, 
to my Correfpondent Mr. Bofe, among other things, 
I acquainted him of my not being able to make the 
beatifying Experiment fuccecd j and that, as far as I 
had yet heard, nobody any-where had been able to 
do it, fo that the Power of feeing this extraordinary 
Phenomenon was yet with himfelf alone. I dcfired 
of him further, that if any material Part of the Pro- 
cefs had been omitted in his Writings, he would 
communicate it; for that fome People here were 
not quite fatisfied of its having ever been made. To 
this he was fo obliging as to fend an Anfwer nearly 
in the following Words, “ As to my Beatification, 
“ I am highly obliged to you for writing to me fo 
“ freely and candidly about it; and I will difeover 
“ to you my whole Artifice without any Retention, 
“ though I concealed the fame from all my Friends 
tl and Correfpondents: Bur, Sir, it is true, that I 
“ have cmhellifhed a little my Beatification by my 
“ Stile and Expreflions ; but it is alfo true, that 
“ the Bafts of the Phenomenon is conftant. I 
“ found in our Armoury at Leipzig, a whole Suit 
