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. Jan. 29. Nine o’clock, A. M. a very thick 
fog, and {harp frofi. The air is fo ftrongly elec- 
trified positively, that the balls feparate full an 
inch and a quarter. There is little or no wind, 
and they remain fiationary ; fo that the experi- 
ment may be made without the leail danger of a 
mi flake. 
Twelve o’clock, the balls diverge as wide as at 
nine. 
Three o’clock, P. M. the balls are exceedingly 
difturbed by the wind; but, blow as it will, they 
ftill keep at a great difiance from each other. It 
freezes very hard. A quarter part four : the fame 
as at three o’clock. 
Half paft five. The balls are fiationary, at three 
quarters of an inch difance, from each other. The 
fog increafes ; and the rods are perfectly wet, from 
end to end. It is now too dark for further accu- 
rate obfervation. 
Jan. 30. Nine o’clock, A. M. I find the air 
ftrongly electrified poftively , in a flight frofi, and 
thick fog. The balls feparate full half an inch : 
they are difturbed by the wind ; but it does not 
clofe them ; and the experiment is tried eafily. 
There hath been a fmall fhower of fnow, which 
lies thinly fpread upon the houfes ; and I have 
often fufpeCted (as I do now), that this forms points, 
and conduCts the eleCtricity fafter. The electricity 
continued the whole day. 
Feb. 4. Nine o’clock, A. M. A (harp frofi, 
and thick fog. The air is ftrongly eleCtrified 
poftively: the balls diverge full three quarters 
of an inch. Eleven o’clock, A. M. The balls are 
fiationary, 
