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fation,  not  unlike  that  produced  by  the  Leyden  phial,  as 
■ it  affedted  his  body  quite  through,  from  the  hand  that 
took  the  difcharge  to  the  feet  that  flood  upon  the  wire. 
exp.  xu i.  Upon  repeating  the  above  experiment, 
•s  with  the  great  cylinder  only,  and  when  it  was  fully 
* charged,  the  explofion  appeared  ftronger,and  thediftance 
: it  ftruck  at  greater,  than  in  the  other  cafe;  and  yet  the 
fenfation  received  was  not  near  fb  violent  as  when  the 
long  wire-  was  connected  with  it. 
exp.  xliii.  When  the  little  cylinder  by  itfelf  was 
< fully  charged,  the  effedts  were  very  inconfiderable,  com- 
pared with  thofe  from  the  great  cylinder:  for,  in  this 
cafe,  the  perfon  Handing  upon  the  wire  of  communication 
was  affected  in  his  hand  only,  and  that  no  farther  than 
the  wrift.  Thefe  three  experiments  were  repeated  many 
times  by  different  perfons,  and  the  refults  were  nearly 
the  fame. 
seventeenth  observation.  When  all  the  circum- 
ftances  in  the  two  laft  experiments  are  confidered,  we 
may  fafely  conclude,  that  the  difference  in  the  fenfation, 
produced  by  the  two  cylinders,  could  arife  from  no  other 
caufe  than  a difference  in  their  lengths  ; the  one  being 
fourteen  times  longer  than  the  other,  and  both  in  other 
refpedts  nearly  fimilar;  and  fince  the  fenfation  perceived 
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