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Rh traction hould be perform'd. To which I hall adde, that poibly the Celerity of the motion of the Flame upwards, may render it very difficult for the Electrical Emanations to divert the Flame from its Coure.

10. We have found by Experiment, That a vigorous and well excited piece of Amber will draw, not onely the powder of Amber, but les minute fragments of it. And as in many caes one contrary directs to another, o this Trial uggeted a further, which, in cae of good ucces, would probably argue, that in Electrical Attraction not onely Effluvia are emitted by the Electrical body, but thee Effluvia faten upon the body to be drawn, and that in uch a way, that the intervening vicous trings, which may be uppoed to be made up of thoe cohering Effluvia, are, when their agitation ceaes, contracted or made to hrink inwards towards both ends, almot as a highly tretch'd Lute-tring does when 'tis permitted to retreat into horter