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result was, he tells us, that his friend thus newly circum- 

 stanced never woke till morning; whereby the suggested 

 hypothesis was, to his mind, already half confirmed. Not to 

 found a theory, however, on insufficient testimony, the baron 

 again availed himself of his experimental young ladies ; and 

 I fear, from the record given, poor Mademoiselle Nowotny 

 must have had some unrefreshing sleep. For some nights the 

 baron seems to have been doing little else than turning about 

 this poor young lady's bed, she being therein. No sooner 

 would Mademoiselle fall into a quiet doze lying magnetic 

 north and south than the philosopher would come and turn 

 the bed about, watchful of consequences. We are gravely 

 informed, that when mademoiselle's heels were brought where 

 her head had been pointing to the magnetic north, that is 

 to say she experienced a disagreeable sensation; but the 

 latter amounted to positive horror whenever her bed was 

 caused to lie in the direction of east and west ! 



According to Reichenbach, his sensitive young ladies 

 could at once and infallibly distinguish a glass of water 

 over which a magnet had been passed from another glass of 

 water ; but this class of experiments took him away from the 

 domains of magnetism altogether. Pursuing this collateral 

 path of investigation, his first chief discovery was, that the 

 force call it what we will existing in magnets, mingled 

 with magnetism proper, existed pure and unmixed in crystal- 

 line bodies, manifesting itself in polar hues corresponding to 

 the crystalline axes. His young ladies testified to the emana- 

 tion of flame from the axes of crystals similarly as, according 

 to them, it emanates from magnetic poles. The most extra- 

 ordinary part of Eeichenbach's statement is, that whereas 

 the new force, from whatever source emanating, attracts the 

 human hand, and, as we shall hereafter find, other parts of 

 the human body, the attraction is not reciprocal; so that 

 although a magnet and not a heavy one could be made to 

 attract Mademoiselle Nowotny from a recumbent to a sitting 



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