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diately into a large infulated difk , I obferved the 
effeCt to be much greater. 
EXPERIMENT II. 
Having procured a tin vefiel, fomewhat re- 
fembling an eolipile, or a chymical retort ; I 
placed it over a fmall lamp, upon my prime- 
conductor [tab. xiii. fig. 2.], and filled it about 
half-full of boiling water. The nofe of it was 
fo fituated, as to throw the eleCtrified drops into 
an infulated dilh, furnifhed with balls, as in the 
former experiments. After the water had been 
fome time poured in, and I imagined enough had 
evaporated to have produced fome drops in the 
neck ; I examined the lip, to fee whether any 
defcended, but faw none. However, on giving 
the machine a turn or two, I was very agreeably 
furprized to fee the eleCtric fireams ifiue exaClly 
as from a capillary tube ; and a few drops having 
fallen into the difn, the balls became electrical, 
and were attracted by my finger, at the diftance 
of an half or three quarters of an inch. In a 
few turns more of the globe, they feparated half 
an inch. 1 then threw out the water; and, clear- 
ing the vefiel of its vapour, I remounted it upon 
its hand (pointing towards the difn as before), to 
try whether the finarp edge on the lip of the 
vefiel would not eleCtrify the air, fufliciemly to fe- 
parate the balls, as the evaporated .water had 
done. I turned the winch a long time for this 
purpofe; but. the balls never diverged at ail. 1 
then poured in the boiling water a fecond time; 
and. 
