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ment was repeated with, no other variation than that the 
lalt perfon touched the eel’s tail, while the firft touched 
its head; they all received a fevere fliock. . 15. Ano- 
ther gentleman and myfelf, holding the extremities of 
a brafs chain, one of us put his hand into the Water, 
while the other touched the eel, fo as to offend it ; the 
fhock palled through us both. 1 6. I wrapped a lilk 
handkerchief round my hand, and touched the eel with 
it, but received no fhock ; although another gentlenian 
felt the Ihock, who, at the fame time, put his hand into 
the water, at fome diftance from the eel. 1 7 . A great 
variety of other experiments were made by two perfons, 
one touching the eel near its head, the other putting his 
hand into the water, or touching it near the tail, form- 
ing a communication at the fame time between their 
hands, which were out of the water, by pieces of char-- 
coal, rods of iron or brafs, a piece of dry wood, glafs, 
lilk, &c. The uniform refult of all thofe experiments 
was, that whatever ufes to convey the ele6lrical fluid 
would alfo convey the fluid difcharged by the eel ; and 
vice verjd^ a brafs chain, that had very many links in it, 
would not convey it, unlefs when the Ihock was fevere, 
or the chain tenfe. i 8. One of the company being 
infulated on glafs bottles, received feveral fliocks from 
the eel; but he exhibited no marks of a plus ftate of 
eledlricity, nor would cork-balls, fufpended by lilkeii 
threads, give any marks of it, either when they were 
fufpended over the eel’s back, or touched by the infu- 
lated perfon at the inftant he received the fliock. 19. 
VoL. LXV. P A perfon 
