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Electricity
it immediately attracts and dissipates all the electrical matter which is collected by the machine the machine therefore workd faintly for a little while till the damp was condensed on the conductor & cheifly on the surface of the glass Phial & then ceas'd intirely a small quantity was however always perceivable upon the surface of the plate & even to the end of the conductor
The Phial tho chargd as full as the machine would fill it even at the time of its best working would not contain the electrical matter scarce at all owing doubtless to the communication made by the condensed damp between the coating & stopper of the Phial thus increasd every moment so that at last
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