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into a ft one* And therefor e^ having 

 confoked the book it felf, whence 

 this Elevation was borrowed^ I found 

 the ftory imperfeftly enough delive- 

 red : Thechiefeft and deareft thing 

 in it being, that at the, top of the 

 Church of Arimini a great iron-bar^ 

 that was placed there tp fupport a 

 Crofs of an hundred pound weight, 

 was at length turned into a Load- 

 ftone. But whether the reality of 

 this tranfmutation was examined, 

 and how it appeared that the frag- 

 ment of the Loadftone prefented to 

 Aldrovandus was taken from that 

 bar of Iran, I am not fully fatisfied 

 by that Narrative. Therefore^ when 

 J remember the great refemblance I 

 have fometimes feen in colour, be- 

 fides other manifeft Qualities, be- 

 twixt fome Loadftones and fome 

 courfe or almoft rufty Iron, I am 

 tempted to Cofijefture^ that thofe 

 that obferved this Iron-bar when 

 broken to have acquired a ftrong 

 Magnetical virtue , which they 

 dreamed not that traft of time might 



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