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Step \vc take in inveftigating the Operation of 
Nature. 
The ele&rifing a Man in polifhed Armour, with 
feveral Globes, muft exhibit a very beautiful Pheno- 
menon, by the Electricity running off from feveral - 
of the Points 5 but I cannot but fay, it muft fall 
greatly fhort of the general Radiation promifed and 
expected from the preceding Accounts. 
This, Gentlemen, is the Information I have been 
able to procure, concerning thefe two Experiments, 
of which we have heard fo much, and which I ap- 
prehended would not be unacceptable to be laid be- 
fore you. I am glad of every Opportunity of 
certifying the Regard, wherewith I am 
Tour mo [l Obedient 
March 1. 17+9. Humble Servant , 
W. Watson. 
XV 7 1. Part of a Tetter from Mr. Profejfor 
Euler to the Reverend Mr. Wetftein, 
Chaplain to his Royal Highnefs the.Prince , 
concerning the Contraption of the Orbits of 
the Planets. Pranfated fro?n the French 
by T. S. M. D. and F. R. S. 
Berlin, Dec. 20. 1749. 
Read March 1 . ~\T OU have done me much Honour 
»749- i n communicating an Extraft of 
my laft Letter* to the illuftrious Royal Society, Ko- 
* See PbiloJ. Tranf. No. 493. p. 203. 
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