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duly applied, were vigorous enough: 

 Of which fort I remember I have 

 feen one ( and made fome rryals 

 with it ) that yielded an income to 

 the owner , who received money 

 from Navigators and others forfuf- 

 fering them to touch their needles, 

 fwords., knives 8cc> at his excellent 

 Magnet. Now, in a piece of fteel 

 or iron thus excited, 'tis plain, that 

 the Magnetic operations may be re- 

 gularly performed for whole years 

 by a body, to which the form of a 

 Loadftone does not belong, fince, 

 as it had its own form before, fo it 

 retains the fame ftill, continuing as 

 malleable, fufible &c. as an ordinary 

 piece of the fame metal unexcited : 

 lb that, if there be introduced a fit 

 difpofition into tlie internal parts of 

 the metal by the aftion of the Load* 

 ftone, the metal, continuing of the 

 fame Species it was before, will need 

 nothing fave the continuance of that 

 acquired difpofition to be capable 

 of performing Magnttical Operati- 

 ons J and if this difpofition orinter- 

 A 4 nal 



