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« able, in the public exhibitions of my experiment? 
“ at h Rochelle, to convey it through a circuit, 
t£ formed from one furface of the animal to the 
*' other, by two long brafs wires, and four perform, 
<c which number, at times, was increafqd even to 
ec eight. flThe feveral perfons were made to com- 
«* municate with each other, and the two oute mad 
with the wires, by means of water contained in 
** bafins, properly dilpofed between them for the 
* f purpofe ; each perfon dipping his hands in the 
'* neared bafins, connedively with his neigbour on 
,l ‘ either fide.* 
The effed produced by the Torpedo, when 
* { in air, appeared, on many repeated experiments, 
*« to be about four times as flrong as when in 
'** water.” 
A clear and fuccind narrative of what pafied at 
one of the public exhibitions, alluded to in the lad 
fetter, appeared in the French Gazette of the 30th 
Odober 177 2. As it came from a very refpedable 
quarter, not lefs fo from the private charader of 
tthe gentleman, than from the public offices he held, 
I mud defire leave of the Society to avail myfelf of 
fuch a tedimony to the fads 1 have advanced, by 
giving a trandation of that narrative. 
Extrad of a Letter from the Sieur Seignette, 
Mayor of la Rochelle, and fecond perpetual 
Secretary of the Academy of that City, to the 
publifher of the French Gazette. 
** In the Gazette of the 14th Augud, you men- 
€< tioned the difcovery made by Mr. Walfih, Mem* 
** ber 
