I. Extract of letter from Dr. John Ingenhousez, F.R.S. to Sir John Pringle, Bart. P.R.S. containing some experiments on the torpedo, made at Leghorn, January 1, 1773 (after having been informed of those by Mr. Walsh). Dated Salzburg, March 27, 1773

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As I could get no torpedos alive to my lodgings at Leghorn, I hired a fishing vessel, called a tartana , with eighteen men in her, and went out twenty miles to sea, where the bottom is muddy, and where those fish are chiefly to be found. We caught five; of which, four were about a foot in length, and the other of a smaller size. Before the nets were taken up, I charged a coated jar by a glass tube, and gave a shock to some of the sailors; who all told me, they felt the same sensation as when they touched the torpedo. Those people acquainted me, that this animal has but very little force in winter, and cannot live a long time our of the water.

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