% t>\ tl)e pectineal p^oUuttion 



pedient to remove that general axul 

 fettled prejudice, that has kept men 

 from fo much as thinking of any 

 Mechanical account of Magnetifms, 

 whidh is a belief) that thefe Qualities 

 do immediately flow from the Sub- 

 stantial Form of the Loadftone^ 

 whofe abftrufe nature is difpropor- 

 tionate to our underftandings. But 



for my part, I con- 

 EXPER. I. fefrj fee no neceffity 



of admitting this fup- 

 pofition 5 for I fee, that a piece of 

 Steel fitly fhaped and well excited., 

 will, like a Loadftone, have its de- 

 terminate Poles^ and with them 

 point at the North and South} it will 

 draw other pieces of Iron and Steel 

 to it, and which is more, communi- 

 cate to them the fame kind,, though 

 not degree, of attra&ive and dire- 

 dive vertue it had it felf> and will 

 poflefs thefe faculties not as light 

 and tranfientimpreflions, butasfuch 

 fetled and durable Powers that it 

 may retain them for many years., if 

 the Loadftone^to which it has been 



duly 



