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Excerpt from An Essay on Electricity: In Which the Theory and Practice of That Useful Science, Are Illustrated by a Variety of Experiments, Arranged in a Methodical Manner; To Which Is Added, an Essay on Magnetism
When the excited glafs tube, or ?ick of fealm ing wax, is in good order, pencils of light will dart from them'fpontaneou?y, in a beautiful manner, anti a [napping aoife will be heard on the approach of any conductor.
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