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32 downy feathers, and immediately, as I expected, they left their preceeding poture, and applied themelves to it as if it had been an Electrical Body. And whether I offered to them my nail, or the pulpy part of my finger, or held my finger towards the right hand or the left, or directly over, thee downy feathers that were near the little Quill did nimbly, and, for ought appear'd, equally turn themelves towards it, and faten themelves to it. And to hew that the teams that iued out of o warm a Body as my finger were not neceary to attract (as men peak) the abovementioned feathers, intead of my finger, I applied to them, after the ame manner, a little Cylindrical Intrument of Silver, to which they bowed and fatened themelves as they had done to my finger, though the tip of this Intrument were preented to them in everal potures. The like ucces I had with the end of an Iron Key, and the like alo with a cold piece of polih'd black Marble; and ometimes the