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the^ fame fenfation as when they touched the torpedo, 
Thofe people acquainted me, that this animal has but 
very little force in winter, and cannot live a long time 
out of the water. As foon as the whole quantity of fifli 
caught was hauled up upon deck, I put the torpedos im- 
mediately into a tub, filled with fea water, together with 
two or three other filhes, which I found not at all hurt by 
their company. I took one of the torpedos in my hand, 
fo that my thumbs prefled gently the upper fide of thofe 
two foft bodies at the fide of the head, called (perhaps 
very improperly) mufculi f ale at i by red i and lorenzini, 
whilfl: my forefingers preflTed the oppofite fide. About 
one or two minutes after, I felt a hidden trembling in 
my thumbs, which extended no further than my hands : 
this lafted about two or three feconds. After fome fe- 
conds more, the fame trembling was felt again. Some- 
times it did not return in feveral minutes, and then came 
again, at very different intervals. Sometimes I felt the 
trembling both in my fingers and thumb. Thefe tre- 
mors gave me the fame fenfation, as if a great number 
of very fmall ele(5lrical bottles were difeharged through 
my hand very quickly one after the other. The fifli oc- 
cafioned the fliock, or trembling, as w'ell out of the wa- 
ter as in it. The fliock lafted fometimes fcarce a fecond ; 
fometimes two or three feconds. Sometimes it w^as very 
weak ; at other times fo ftroiig, that I w^as very near being 
obliged to quit my hold of the animal. The torpedo 
having given one fliock, did not feem to lofe the power 
of giving another of the fame force foon again; for I ob- 
ferved 
