ajj A Trut/Jc of B O D I E S. Chap. 15. 



tho'e two ends, but from the attraction of th? agreeing ends. 

 Furthermore, the earth, having to a loadftonc the nature ofa. 



^y 



loadffone; it followeth that a loadrroae muft necefTarily turn it 

 felf'to the poles of the earth by the fame laws. And confequently, 

 rrr.jft tend to the north, mutt vary from the north, muft incline 

 towards the center, and muft be affeiled with all fuch accident* 

 as we have deduced ofthe loadflone. 



And lalily, feeing that iron is to a loadftone, a fit matter for 

 k to imprefle irs nature in, and eafily retaincth that magnetike 

 virtue: the fame effects that follow between two loadftones, 

 rmift necefTarily follow between a loadftone, and a piece of iron 

 ficly proportionated in their degrees .-excepting forne little parti- 

 cuhritie?, which proceed out of thenituralncffe ofthe magne- 

 tike virtue to a load/lone, more then to iron. 



Ard thus you fee the nature of the loadftone fummcd up in 

 grofie jthe particular joynts and caufes whereof you may find 

 treated at lrg2 in the main difco'.irfe.Wherein we have govejy- 

 ed our felves chiefly by the experiences that are recorded by il- 

 bert and Cabcus ; to whom, we remit our reader for a more 

 ample declaration of'particulars. 

 



CHAP.- XXIII. 



ss4 description of tht tn>t forts of living creatures PUnts, 



and Animals : Atd how they Are framed in common 



to perform vittlt motion. 



I. Tjlthertowe have endeavoured to follow by a continuall 

 e connexion J [ ^jj 3 jj fa^ c ff ec ^ s as we have met with amono bodies, 



tne ioi ow- 



ng chapter* and to trace them in ajl their windings, and to drive them up to 

 l ^ c ' r Vcr y root an ^ originall iburcc.-for the nature of our fubjeft 

 having been yet very common, hath not exceeded the compaflc 

 and power of our feareh and inquiry to dcfcend unto the chief 

 circumflances and particulars belonging unto it. And indeed, 

 many of the conveyances whc-eby the operations we have dif- 

 courfcd of, are performed, befo fecrct and abftrufe, as they that 

 look into them with leiTe heedful nefle and judgement then fuch 

 a matter requireth, arc too apt to impute them to myfterious 

 caufes above the reach of humane nature to comprehend, and 

 to calumniate them of being wrought by occult and fpecifick 



qua- 



