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circumstance of the eledricity not finding 
the paflage equally free and open in both 
cafes. 
If it finds the obstacle oppofed by the 
ligature before it meets with a better con- 
dudor, that is to fay, the mufcles, it 
then overleaps the obstacle, and having 
penetrated within the nerves themfelves, 
finds a road proper for it, ,and of courfe 
does not deviate from it. But under 
oppofite circumstances, it abandons the 
nerves to difperfe itfelf in the mufcles 
which afford it an eafier paSfage. 
To this explanation, which I have given 
in different terms in another place, it may 
objeded, that the animal eledricity is not 
put into circulation when circumftances 
are not convenient for it, and that this is 
the cafe here. 
The ligature, I repeat, does not prevent 
entirely the paSfage of the animal eledri? 
city, and certainly a portion of it reaches 
the 
