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Rh provided they be minute or light enough, except perhaps it be fire: I employ the word perhaps, becaue I am not yet o clear in this point. For having applied a trong Electric a convenient ditance to mall fragments of ignited matter, they were readily enough attracted, and hin'd, whilt they were ticking to the body that had drawn them: But when I look'd attentively upon them, I found the hining parks to be, as it were, cloath'd with light ahes, which, in pite of my diligence, had been already form'd about the attracted Corpucles, upon the expiring of a good part of the fire; o that it remain'd omewhat doubtful to me, whether the ignited Corpucles, whilt they were totally uch, were attracted; or whether the immediate objects of the Attraction were not the new form'd ahes, which carried up with them thoe yet unextinguished parts of fire, that chanc'd to be lodg'd in them. But, as for flame, our Countreyman Gil-