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times made fo hard, in the Compafs of a 

 few Days, that Armies may walk dry-£hod 

 over them. 



But daily Experience fliews us thefe 

 Eftcd:s of the Loadftone : they are plain 

 and obvious to our Senfes, and confequently 

 proper Subjeds for the Exercife of our Rea-. 

 fon : which by confidering them v/ill find 

 Means of employing them to many ufeful 

 Purpofes^ and muft neccilarily lead us to 

 revere the unfearchable Wildom of that 

 almighty Being who has endowed them with 

 . fuch amazing Properties.— In our Examina- 

 tion thus fir we fiand juiVitied both to Rea- 

 fon and Religion: but when we attempt be- 

 yond this, and pretend to difcover and de- 

 fcribe the Machinery whereby, and the 

 Manner how thefe wonderful Effects are 

 performed, which we neither have Senfes to 

 difcern, nor Abilities to judge of, all is Dark- 

 nefs and Uncertainty, we plunge into an 

 unfatliomable Abyfs without either Star or 

 Compafs to dired: our Courfe, and are in the 

 utmoft Danger of Shipwrecking our Xiw- 

 derflanding. 



Which of the many Ilypothefes, contri- 

 ved to account for thefe Changes, can fur- 

 nidi any reafonable Satisfaction 1 or deferves 

 to be regarded otherv/ife than as a pretty In- 



P yen- 



