Probable Cause of the Different Attractions and Repulsions of the two electrified Globes mentioned in the two preceding Letters.

Philadelphia, March 2, 1752.

Sir,

I thank you for the experiments communicated. I sent immediately for your brimstone globe, in order to make the trials you desired, but found it wanted centres, which I have not time now to supply; but the first leisure I will get it fitted for use, try the experiments, and acquaint you with the result.

In the mean time I suspect, that the different attractions and repulsions you observed, proceeded rather from the greater or smaller quantities of the fire you obtained from different bodies, than from its being of a different kind, or having a different direction. In haste,

I am, &c.

B. FRANKLIN.

TO MR. E. KINNERSLEY, AT BOSTON.