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244 A TOUR THROUGH
I throw them in your way only for you
to improve upon at your leisure : For we
have it ever in our power to be making
experiments in electricity. And although
this ssuid is the most subtle and active of
any we know, we can command it on all
occasions ; and I am now so accustomed to
its operations, that I seldom comb my hair,
or pull oss a ssocking, without observing
them under some form or other. How sur-
prismg is it then, that mankind should
have lived and breathed in it for so many
every object that approached her. The hair was ex-
tremely electrical, and affected an electrometer at a
Very great dissance: He charged a metal conductor
from it with great ease ; and in the space of a few mi-
nutes collected as much fire immediately from the hair,
as to kindle common spirits ; and by means of a small
phial, gave many smart shocks to all the company. A
full account of these experiments was lately read be-
fore the Royal Society. They were made during the
time of a very hard frclt, and on a strong head of hair,
where no powder or pomatum had been used for many
months.
thousand
I throw them in your way only for you
to improve upon at your leisure : For we
have it ever in our power to be making
experiments in electricity. And although
this ssuid is the most subtle and active of
any we know, we can command it on all
occasions ; and I am now so accustomed to
its operations, that I seldom comb my hair,
or pull oss a ssocking, without observing
them under some form or other. How sur-
prismg is it then, that mankind should
have lived and breathed in it for so many
every object that approached her. The hair was ex-
tremely electrical, and affected an electrometer at a
Very great dissance: He charged a metal conductor
from it with great ease ; and in the space of a few mi-
nutes collected as much fire immediately from the hair,
as to kindle common spirits ; and by means of a small
phial, gave many smart shocks to all the company. A
full account of these experiments was lately read be-
fore the Royal Society. They were made during the
time of a very hard frclt, and on a strong head of hair,
where no powder or pomatum had been used for many
months.
thousand