When it is electrified strongly, I can take it into another room and there fire spirits of wine with it.

If while it is electrifying I put my finger, or a piece of gold which I hold in my hand, to the nail, I receive a shock which stuns my arms and shoulders.
"A tin tube, or a man, placed upon electrics, is electrified much stronger by this means than in the common way.

When I present this phial and nail to a tin tube, which I have, fifteen feet long, nothing but experience can make a person believe how strongly it is electrified.
I am persuaded," he adds, "that in this manner Mr.Bose would not have taken a second electrical kiss.

Two thin glasses have been broken by the shock of it.

It appears to me very extraordinary, that when this phial and nail are in contact with either conducting or non-conducting matter, the strong shock does not follow.