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the electric fluid, and refufes to be con¬ 
veyed by other bodies that refufe to con¬ 
vey the eledlric fluid, it rauft be the true 
eledtrical fluid: and the fhock given by 
this eel, muft be the true eledlrical fhock. 1 ® 
Phil. Trank vol. Ixv. 
Several natural! fts, with whom I have 
converfed upon animal eledlricity, are of 
opinion, that this fluid is analogous to the 
eledlricity diffufed through the univerfe, 
but that it is not of the fame nature. 
Eledlricity, fay they, cannot adt but when 
its equilibrium does not exift: Now it 
fhould be fuppofed, that it is accumulated 
in fome part of the animal j but as the 
parts of animals are all condudtors of elec¬ 
tricity, fuch an accumulation cannot take 
place, confequently it is not eledlricity, 
which in animals performs the fundtions 
of the nervous fluid. In my anfwer to 
thefe gentlemen, I fhall obferve, that ani¬ 
mal eledlricity is in like manner condudted 
