The Child's Book of Nature for the Use of Families and Schools Intended to Aid Mothers and Teachers in Training Children in the Observation of Nature. Revised Edition. Part 3: Air, Water, Heat, Light, etc. (1886)
k in the circle of people, the whole hundred will feel a shock at the same time, for the electricity will go through them all around the whole as quick as lightning, as we say; and it is, in this case, really so, for the electricity is lightning. And so, when in the telegraph the electricity passes… … killed in the same way that one is who is struck with lightning. You remember that I told you, in Part Second, Chapter XXIV., that there are some fish that have electrical machines or batteries in them. There are only a few such fish, and they are great cu-
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