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Rh Effluvia for ome time afterwards, which will be longer or horter according to the goodness of the Electric, and the degree of the Antecedent commotion: which joyn'd together may ometimes make the effect coniderable, inomuch that in a warm day, about noon, I did with a certain body, not much, if at all, bigger than a Pen, but very vigorouly attractive, move to and fro a Steel Needle freely poyed, about three minutes (or the twentieth part of an hour) after I had left off rubbing the Attrahent.

8. That it may not eem impoible, that Electrical Effluvia hould be able to ininuate themelves into the pores of many other bodies, I hall adde, that I found them ubtile enough to attract not onely Spirit of Wine, but that fluid aggregate of Corpucles we call Smoak. For having well lighted a Wax-taper, which I preferred to a common Candle to avoid the tink of the nuff, I blew out the flame; and, when the moak acend-