Anfm tofome Uzgmticzl Inquiries^ pra^ofed Numb. 23, 
of thefe Tranfaaions, Pag. 423, 424.; 
The Queries were thefe. 
1. Whether a ISJeedle may be fo toucht upon any Magnet^ as 
not to point to the true North and South ? 
2. Whether different Load-Stones^ will give different dire^ 
ftions? or, whether fainter or flronger touches, upon one aad 
the famcMagnetjWill caufe any Variation in the direftions? dv. 
To thefe the Induftrious Mr. ^^eZ/erj" returns this Anfwer : 
To theFiy/?3 That he had often made tryal with many 
Needles touching them in each Hemijphere of the Stone, with all 
variety of wayes he could imagine,to find, if it were poflible by 
that means to caufe any of thek Needles to vary in its direftion 
but, that he alwayes found the contrary 5 all of thera conform- 
ing to the Magnetical Meridian , and ftanding North and Sonth^ 
as other Needles , that were toucht upon the very P^/e of the 
Stone. Hie adds ^ that fome of thefe Experiments he tryed in 
London^ when there was no Variation known. 
TiO the Second 'y i. That, upon frequent try als of touching 
Needles w^on different Load-Stones^ of feveral bignefles, as alfo 
of different vertue 5 the feveral Needles , touched upon thefe 
different Stones, gave allof them the lame direfiions. This he 
thinks is confirmed by all the Needles zndSea-CompaJJes^ made in 
feveral parts of the World, and confequently touched upon fe- 
veral Stones of feveral Countries, yet all agreeing in this Mag- 
mtical Harmony.that they all give the fame direflrions. 2. That 
having fometimes drawn a Needle^only oyer the Pole of the Stone^ 
within the Sphere of its vertue , without at all touchingiJie 
Stone 5 it hath received the fame direftive quality from the 
Stone, as if it had been really toucht upon the Stone it felf^ 
though not altogether fo flrong^ as if it had toucht the Stone. 
Again, that having toucht Needles upon the Stone, with faint 
ftrokes, and other Needles with fironger-^ all thefe Needles re- 
ceived the fame effedt from the Stone, both for flrength and di- 
rection 5 he conceivingjthat 'tis not the fainter or Jironger touch- 
es upon the Stone, nor the multiplicity of Strokes, that varies 
the Needles {[yength or dir^ftion ^ but that the N^///re of the 
Steely v/hereof the NeeJ/^ is madcj and the temper th^t is given 
thereuntOj 
