v8 3[wpetfettion of tl?e C&ptm'ff* 



cularly, will with its lower end drive 

 away the flower de Luce 5 or the 

 North-end of a Marriners Needle, 

 which the upper end of the fame barr 

 orrochwiil notrepell but draw to it. 

 In (hart, of above threescore Pro- 

 perties or notable Phenomena of 

 Magnetic Bodies , that fome Writers 

 have reckon'd up 5 1 do not remember 

 that any three have been by Chymifts 

 fo much as attempted to be folved by 

 their three Principles. And even in 

 thofe Qualrties^ in whofe explicati- 

 ons thefe Principles may more pro- 

 bably than elfewhere pretend to have 

 a place-, the Spagyriits accounts are 

 wont to fall fo ftiort of being diftinft 

 and particular enough, that they ufe 

 to leave divers considerable Vh&no~ 

 menu untouch'd 5 and do but very 

 lamely or llightly explicate the more 

 obvious or familiar* And I have fo 

 good an opinion of divers of the em- 

 bracers of the Spagyrical Theory of 

 Qualities (among whom I have met 

 with very Learned and worthy men) 

 that 1 think^that if a Quality being 



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