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SICILY AND MALTA. 233
with more ease and celerity. This has
often been proved from the immediate re-
moval of obstructions by electricity ;—and
probably the rubbing with dry and warm
ssannel, esteemed so efficacious in such
cases, is doing nothing more than exciting
a greater degree of electricity in the part;
but it has likewise been demonstrated, by
the common experiment of making water
drop through a small capillary syphon,
which the moment it is electrified runs
in a full stream.—I have, indeed, very
little doubt, that the fertility of our sea-
sons depends as much on this quality in
the air, as either on its heat or moisture.
Electricity will probably soon be con-
sidered as the great vivifying principle of
Nature, by which ihe carries on raost of her
operations.—It is a fifth element, dininct
from, and of a superior nature to the
Other four, which only compose the cor-
poreal parts of matter: But this subtileand
active
with more ease and celerity. This has
often been proved from the immediate re-
moval of obstructions by electricity ;—and
probably the rubbing with dry and warm
ssannel, esteemed so efficacious in such
cases, is doing nothing more than exciting
a greater degree of electricity in the part;
but it has likewise been demonstrated, by
the common experiment of making water
drop through a small capillary syphon,
which the moment it is electrified runs
in a full stream.—I have, indeed, very
little doubt, that the fertility of our sea-
sons depends as much on this quality in
the air, as either on its heat or moisture.
Electricity will probably soon be con-
sidered as the great vivifying principle of
Nature, by which ihe carries on raost of her
operations.—It is a fifth element, dininct
from, and of a superior nature to the
Other four, which only compose the cor-
poreal parts of matter: But this subtileand
active