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The third glafs being put into the fame cup with the two former, 

 I turned it in' various diredlions, but it did not uniformly fettle in the 

 fame polition; for its part, T, fometimes pointed towards the South, 

 fometimes towards the Well, and then would incline a little from the 

 Well towards the South. AVhen I firll law this, I began to con- 

 clude that the fragment, though broken otFfrom a Magnet, might yet 

 be deftitute of North and South poles, and, therefore, had no power 

 to put the glafs wherein it was placed in motion. Bvit foon after- 

 wards rejecting that idea, I thought that perhaps the North and 

 South poles in this fragment might lie fo as to point one of them 

 directly upwards and the other downwards ; and that if fo, they 

 could not by any means put the glafs in motion. I, therefore, 

 feveral times took this fmall glafs out of the water, and lliook it 

 up and down, that by fuch lliaking the poles or corners, if they 

 lay up and down, might afl'ume on horizontal polition. And, after 

 frequent trials, I found that at length this glafs took a certain di- 

 redlion, and kept that polition, in like manner as I have related of 

 the others. 



Moreover, I took an iron key, and brought it near to the glafs, 

 while fwimming in the water (but fo as not to let the key touch 

 the water) in order to fee whether this fmall piece of Loadllone, 

 thus inclofed and under the furface of the water, would be put in 

 motion by the approach of iron : but I could not obferve the leall 

 motion. Neverthelefs, upon bringing a thick and long piece of 

 iron very clofe to the water and alfo to the glafs, the glafs in- 

 clined a little to one fide : the fame I alfo obferved in the larger 

 glafs tube, which is pictured ^t jig. IQ.- 



that minute aquatic animal or infe6l, the Polype ; which, if it be divided into many pieces, 

 each piece will become a perfeft animal, pofleiring all the properties of the original Polype, 

 before divided. Mr. Baker, in his attempt towards a Natural lliiloiy of the Polype, has a 

 curious cffiiy refperting the divifil)ili(y of the confcious principle in that living creature, 

 which feems applicable to the inanimate propcvtics multiplied in this fubdivillon of the JvOad- 

 fione. — TuANSLAioK. 



