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14 acended in a lender tream, held, at a convenient ditance from it, an excited piece of Amber or a chafed Diamond, which would manifetly make the acending moak deviate from its former line, and turn aide, to beat, as it were, againt the Electric, which, if it were vigorous, would act at a coniderable ditance, and eemed to moak for a pretty while together.

9. That 'tis not in any peculiar Sympathy between an Electric and a body whereon it operates, that Electrical Attraction depends, eems the more probaleprobable [sic], becaue Amber, for intance, does not attract onely one determinate ort of bodies, as the Loadtone does Iron, and thoe bodies wherein it abounds; but as far as I have yet tried, it draws indifferently all bodies whatoever, being plac'd within a due ditance from it, (as my choicet piece of Amber draws not onely Sand and Mineral Powders, but Filings of Steel and Copper, and beaten Gold it elf) pro-