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inch ball under the other end, it feems as if neither the 
ball or point attracted either end; or that they both 
equally attracted, or repelled each end, as in either cafe 
the moveable artificial cloud would remain horizontal. 
And in the fourteenth experiment, in order to try 
whether the point would attract or repel the moveable 
artificial cloud, the ball was taken away, and only the 
point was left under one end, as now all the action of the 
point either to attract or repel would be exerted on that 
end which was now over the point, and confequently 
that end fhould either be attracted down to it, or repelled 
from it : but from the experiment it appears, that the 
point drew off all the electricity filently, without either 
attracting or repelling the end of the moveable artificial 
cloud which was over it, as it continued horizontal all 
the time it was charged. 
The fifteenth experiment was made to fee if the ball 
would either attraCt or repel the moveable artificial 
cloud, as in this experiment the ball only was under one 
end, and every thing elfe exaCtly the fame as when the 
point only was under. But here we find the effeCt of 
the ball very different from that of the point ; for inftead 
of drawing off the electricity filently, as the point did, 
without attracting the end of the moveable artificial 
cloud; on the contrary, the moveable artificial cloud was 
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