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2 perhaps in ome caes aited in its Operation by the external air) eems agreeable to divers things that may be oberv'd in uch Bodies and their manner of acting.

There are differing Hypothees (and all of them Mechanical, propos'd by the Moderns) to olve the Ph&aelig;nomena of Electrical Attraction. Of thee Opinions the Firt is that of the learned Jeuite Cabeus, who, though a Peripatetick and Commentator on Aritotle, thinks the drawing of light Bodies by Jet, Amber, &c. may be accounted for, by uppoing, that the teams that iue, or, if I may o peak, ally, out of Amber, when heated by rubbing, dicus and expell the neighbouring air; which after it has deenbeen [sic] driven off a little way, makes as it were a mall whirlwind, becaue of the reitance it finds from the remoter air, which has not been wrought on by the Electrical Steams; and that thee, hrinking back wiftly enough to the Amber, do in their returns bring a- long