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76 Thursday Oct 19th 1843 [[vertical squiggly line]]
When the two end of the long secondary conductor wire grasped, quite a smart shock was felt in each hand.

I next tried the method of determining the direction of the current which was used by the Italian Philosopher Matteucy (see Annals de chimie 1841), which consits in piercing a hole in a thin piece of writing paper. The perforation as it is well known, will be nearer the negative point, and hence the direction may be determined. The experiment was perfectly successful, and gave a current in the adverse direction to that of the battery discharge.

Made a galvanometer of about 300 turns well seperated by cement, suspended a needle in the centre and connected this with the [[strikethrough]] coil [[/strikethrough]] circuit at the same opening where the needles were placed yesterday, when the current was sent through, the long conductor across the campus, the needle was moved and indicated a current in an [[underlined]] adverse [[/underlined]] direction to that of the battery current.
With three jars charged nearly to 90◦ the effect was the same except the needle was more moved. To be sure that the effect was due to the action of the current, the direction of the current as regards the electrometer, was changed, or in other words the current was sent through the galvanometer in an opposite direction, but it still indicated a current [[underlined]] adverse [[underlined]] to that of the battery discharge.
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Thursday Oct 19th 1843 [[vertical squiggly line]]                               77

Made today an apparatus for  for getting the perforation in a paper more conveniently a + b are two glass tubes supporting [[image of apparatus]] two corks through which a needles are passed. By sewing the needles more or less through the corks and by elevating one of them, the adjustment can be readily made.
 Also prepared two [[circled]] webs [[/circled]] of wires [[strikeout]] for [[/strikeout]] to serve as coiles, with them and others like them, I intend to repeat [[image of web]] the experiments on successive induction from the Leyden jar.
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Friday  Oct 20th
 Repeated the experiment of Matteucci in [[referen?]] to obtaining the current by means of a galvanometer. found the result the same as given in his paper. Repeated this exp with [[image of jar, wires and direction of current]] the same result.
Three jars were used tolerably highly charged.
When the experiment was first tried, and the jars highly charged, a spark quite loud was heard in the galvanometer.
With a single jar, the discharge gave a current sometimes in one direction - and sometimes in the other.

Transcription Notes:
Charles Matteucci - pg 140 of the Annals de Chimes 1841 I believe it should be Annales de Chimie not Chimes which makes no sense in French.