FOOTNOTES:

[25] See this opinion rectified in § 16 and 17 of the next letter. The fire in the bottle was found by subsequent experiments not to be contained in the non-electric, but in the glass. 1748.

[26] What is said here, and after, of the top and bottom of the bottle, is true of the inside and outside surfaces, and should have been so expressed.

[27] See the preceding note, relating to top and bottom.

[28] Other circumstances being equal.

[29] i. e. from the inside to the outside.

[30] See the preceding note, relating to top and bottom.

[31] i. e. From the inside to the outside.

[32] Placing the book on glass or wax is not necessary to produce the appearance; it is only to show that the visible electricity is not brought up from the common stock in the earth.

TO PETER COLLINSON, ESQ. F. R. S. LONDON.