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112 Take a watch-glass (or your watch itself will do, you only want something which shall have a

Fig. 35.

round face), and now if you place a piece of flat glass upon that, you have a very easily moved centre; and if I take this lath and put it on the flat glass (you see I am searching for the centre of gravity of this lath, I want to balance it upon the watch-glass), it is very easily moved round, and if I take this piece of sealing-wax and rub it against my coat, and then try whether it is attractive [holding it near the lath], you see how strong the attraction is; I can even draw it about. Here then you have a very beautiful indicator, for I have with a small piece of sealing-wax and my coat pulled round a plank of that kind, so you need be in no want of indicators to discover the presence of this attraction. There is scarcely a substance