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XXXIX. Of the eleStric Property of the 
Tforpedo. In a Pet ter from John Walfh, 
Efq\ F. R. S. to Benjamin Franklin, 
Efq\ LL.D.y F.R. S. y Ac. R. Par. She. 
Ext 
Chefterfield-Street, July i, 17^3. 
Dear Sir, 
Read July 
1 7 73 * 
Am concerned that other engagements 
have prevented me from giving to the 
Royal Society, before their recefs, a complete ac- 
count of my experiments on the electricity of 
the Torpedo; a fubjeCt not only curious in itfelf, 
but opening a large field for interefiing inquiry, both 
to the eleCtrician in his walk of phvfics, and to all 
who confider, particularly or generally, the animal 
ceconomy. 
To fupply the deficiency in the belt manner I am 
row able, I will requefl the favour of you to lay be- 
fore the Society my letter from la Rochelle, of the 
12th July 1772, and fuch part of the letter I after- 
wards wrote from Paris, as relates to this fiibjedt. 
Loofe and imperfeCt as thefe informations are, for 
they were never intended for the public eye, they 
are ftill the molt authentic, and fo far the moft 
O o o 2 fatif- 
