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26 learn, that Bodies that are neither of them apart oberved to be endowed with Electricity, may have that Vertue reult in the compounded ubtance that they contitute, though it be but a factitious Body.

To the foregoing Experiments, whoe Success is wont to be uniform enough, I hall adde the Recital of a urpriing Ph&aelig;nomenon, which, though not contant, may help to make it probable, that Electrical Attractions need not be uppos'd till to proceed from the ubtantial, or even from the eential Form of the Attrahent; but may be the effects of unheeded, and, as it were, fortuitous Caues. And however, I dare not uppres o trange an Obervation, and therefore hall relate that which I had the luck to make of an odd ort of Electrical Attraction (as it eem'd,) not taken notice of (that I know of) by any either Naturalit or other Writer, and it is this. EX-