458 Mr. swift’s Account of fame 
In this date if a ball be prefented to either conductor, 
it makes no alteration; the pole continues to vibrate as 
before, even though a fladi comes on the ball : but when 
a point is prefented to either of the conductors b or c, 
the vibrations of the pole begin to abate, and no flafh 
comes to the point. And as foon as any connection is 
made with the earth, the point being prefented to one 
conductor, the pole attaches itfelf to the other with con- 
tinual flafhes. 
5. I take two glafs globes coated ee, and fufpend them 
'towards the ends of the pole dd. On turning the cylinder 
the pole will vibrate, and the globes will, in a lhort time, 
become charged ; each globe will have its outward coat 
•charged in the fame w'ay as the conductor over which it 
hangs, as will appear by difcharging them into each 
other with a common difcharging rod. This experiment 
fhews the poffibility of compreffing the eleCtric matter, 
though the globes are perfectly infulated. 
6. While the machine remains in this date, let the 
prime conductor b be connected with other clouds, fig. 
2. which are made to move over houfes having conduc- 
tors terminated with points ; the globe e over the prime 
conductor will be thrown upwards or repelled, and the 
other globe only will receive a charge from the anti-con- 
duCtor c : or if, on the contrary, the anti-conduCtor c be 
1 connected 
