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Rh ber whence they were emitted. A third Hypotheis there is, which was devied by the Acute Carteius, who dilikes the Explications of others, chiefly becaue he thinks them not applicable to Glas, which he uppoes unfit to end forth Effluvia, and which is yet an Electrical body; and therefore attempts to account for Electrical Attractions by the intervention of certain particles, hap'd almot like mall pieces of Ribbond, which he uppoes to be form'd of this ubtile matter harbour'd in the pores or crevies of Glas. But this Hypotheis, though ingenious in it elf, yet depending upon the knowledge of divers of his peculiar Principles, I cannot intelligibly propoe it in few words, and therefore hall refer you to himelf for an account of it: which I the les cruple to do, becaue though it be not unworthy of the wonted Acutenes of the Authour, yet he eems himself to doubt, whe- ther