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Electricity

such as were describd above:  the others were small ones, made much in the same manner, but instead of being coated on the inside filld with leaf gold.  Secondly the floor of the Cabbin in which the experiments were tried, was coverd with a red floor cloth of painted canvas which that had been given issued to the ship from his Majesties stores at Deptford;  this which was usualy washed with salt water every morning, & sufferd to dry without being ever taken up.  This provd as good a conductor of Electricity as any we could make use of; so that a man standing on one side the machine, & touching the coating of the Phial, was shockd by another who touchd the conductor without having any communication

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