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Experiments and Notes

about the

Mechanical Origine

or

production

of

Electricity.

THat 'tis not neceſſary to believe Electrical Attraction (which you know is generally liſted among Occult Qualities) to be the effect of a naked and ſolitary Quality flowing immediately from a Subſtantial Form; but that it may rather be the effect of a Material Effluvium, iſſuing from, and returning to, the Electrical Body (and

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