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r the reels t t on which the wires are strained. Posts at intervals of 400 yards. All bodies are conductors of electricity; but while in some the degree of conductivity is so great that they are used to convey the electric fluid, others resist the passage of the current to such an extent that they are said to insulate, or confine the fluid to a more favorable medium. The following bodies ad- mit the passage of electricity about in the order written:— Silver.Acids.Oils.Paper. Copper.Saline solutions.Ashes.Feathers Gold.Metallic ores.Phosphorus.Hair or wool. Mercury.Animal fluids.Lime or chalk.Silk. Cadmium.Water.Caoutchouc.Glass. Zinc.Vegetables.Camphor.Wax. Tin.Animals.Porcelain.Sulphur. Iron.Flame.Dry wood.Resin. Lead.Smoke.Gases and air.Amber. Platinum.Vapor.Leather.Paraffine. Carbon.Earths.Lycopodium.Shellac. Graphite.Metallic oxides.Parchment.Gutta-percha. In—tagl′io. Cut in; as of the lines in an engraved plate, the sunken letter in the matrix of a type,<