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yiagnetical poles ^ the Needle is governed thereby^ the nearejl 
pole being always predominant over the more remote* The 
parts of the Earth wherein theft Magnetical Poles lie can- 
not as yet be exadly determined for want offufEcient Data 
to proceed Geometrically; h\xu as near as Conjecture can 
reach, I reckon that, the Po/^ which is at prefent neareft 
to us lies in or near the Meridian of the Lands end of Eng^ 
land and not above 7 degrees from the Pole Ardick.by 
this Pok the Variations in all Europe^ and Tartary^ and the 
North Sea are principally governed ; tho with regard to 
tho t her Northern pole, whofe fcituation is in a Meridian 
pafling about the middle of California, and about 15 gr» 
from the North Pole of the World, to this the Needle 
has chiefly refpeft in all the North America ^ and in the 
Two Oceans on either fide thereof > from the Azores weft" 
wards to ]apam and farther. The Two Southern poles are 
f rather farther diftant from the South pole of the World. 
'^ The one about fixteen degrees therefrom is in a Meridian 
ibmeTwenty degiees tothe Weft ward of Magellans Jiraights> 
'' or 95 degrees Weft from London: this commands the 
Needle in all the South America, in the PacifickJSea^ and 
\ the greateft part of the Ethiopicl^ Oceaa. The Fourth 
and laft Vole feems to have the greateft Power and largeft 
dominions of alLas it is the moft remote from the pole of the 
t World, being little lefs than 20 degrees diftant therefrom, 
in the Meridian which paffes through Hollandia Nova and 
I the Ifland Celebes about 120 degrees Eaft from London s 
this Pole is predominant in the South part of Africa, in 
Arabia and the ^d Sea, in Perfia , India and its Iflands, 
and all over the /^4^;^ Sea from the Cape of Good-Hope 
Eaftwards to the middle of the great South Sea that divides 
j^fia from America. This feems to be the prefent difpofiti- 
on of the Magnetical vertue throughout the whole Globe 
ol the Earth; it renjaing to jOiew how this Hypotheffs 
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