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magnetized bodies. But by extending these ex- 
perimental inquiries I soon met with some of the 
most perplexing results; which, for awhile, seemed 
to overthrow all my previous reasoning on the 
subject; and, certainly, did at the time, cast such 
a gloom over those expectations which had been 
occasioned by the uniform display of the pheno- 
mena whilst operating with the saw (20, 21, 22,) 
that I despaired of reducing the anomalies that 
presented themselves to any law whatever: I 
therefore abandoned the experiments. 
24. The anomalies in question were the occa- 
sional advances of the disturbed magnetic poles 
towards the point of heat, which were obviously 
at variance with the law which governs the trans- 
placement in the direction of the axis; and at 
the time that I abandoned the inquiry, these occa- 
sional movements of the magnetic poles seemed, 
to me, to be totally inexplicable. 
25. Some time afterwards, I ventured on the 
inquiry again, and by closely pursuing the expe- 
riments, through several repetitions, 1 eventually 
found that these movements of the magnetic poles 
towards the point of heat were as uniformly dis- 
