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this experiment, as my hands were out of water, I could 
be affedled only by that part of the fluid which palled, 
through my body from one hand to the other. 
The following experiments were made with the tor- 
pedo in air. If I flood on an eledlric flool, and touched, 
either furface of the eledtric organs with one hand only,. 
I felt a fliock in that hand ; but fcarcely fo ftrong as when 
touching it in the fame manner under water. If I laid a 
hand on one furface of the eledlric organs, and with the 
other touched the tail,. I felt a fliock ; but much weaker 
than when touching it in the ufual manner; that is, with, 
one hand on the upper furface of thofe organs, and the 
other on the lower. If I laid a thumb on either furface; 
of an elediric organ, and a finger of the fame hand on 
any part of the body, except on or very near the fame 
furface of the organs, I felt a fmall fliock. 
In all the foregoing experiments, the battery was- 
charged to the fame degree, except where the contrary 
is exprefled : they all feem to agree very well with Mr.. 
walsh’s experiments. 
Mr. walsh found, that if he inclofed a torpedo in a, 
flat bafket, open at the top, and immerfed it in water to 
the depth of three inches, and while the animal was in.- 
that fituation, touched its upper furface with an iron bolt; 
held in one hand, while the other hand. was dipped into, 
the water at fome diflance, he felt a fliock in both of 
them. I accordingly tried the fame experiment with the 
artificial torpedo ; and if the battery was charged about 
fix times as high as ufual, received. a fmall fliock in each. 
hand 
