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and that he would have the Complaifance to 
fatisfy my great Defire of feeing him caufc Odours 
to pervade the Sides of a well ftopped Glafs, or by 
electrifying to diminifh fenfibly any Subfiance there- 
in contained. Mr. Angelo Quirirri, a Venetian 
Gentleman, a great Friend to the Sciences, and 
one always ready to afiift thofe who apply them- 
felves thereto, did me this Service among many 
others, for which I am indebted to his Fricndfhip 
and Politenefs. He accordingly acquainted M. Ti- 
•vati ; and on the ift of Auguft , 1745?. we waited 
upon him, and found there a large Company, among 
which were fcveral Perfons of Diftinction : Among 
others were Mr. Antony Mo/Jinigo , heretofore Em- 
bafi'or in France , Abbe Horter , &c. At the Sight 
of this great Aflembly I believed (and I had feme 
Reafons for believing it) that my Curiofity had been 
* fufpeded of Disbelief, and of an Obftinacy to 
doubt ; this Company therefore was called together 
to be an Evidence of my Conviction. I would have 
been willing to have bought at this Price the Pleafure 
of feeing a Phenomenon, for the verifying of which 
I had taken fo much fruitlefs Trouble. The manner 
of making it fuccced had been without doubt fome 
Novelty to me, as curious itfelf as the EffeCt which 
fhould have refulted therefrom. But how great 
were my Surprize, and my Regret, when M. Tivati 
declared 
* I had been acquainted, that my Arrival at Venice had been 
notified by Letters from Turin, which had deferibed me as a Man fo 
prejudiced againft Fadls, that the ftrongeft could not make me 
believe. In this they did me great Injuftice j unlefs they took for In- 
credulity on my Part the Precaution I took, againft Illufion, and faille 
Appearances. 
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