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Laadjlone^ viz. whereas before the bending, the adverfe 
^ Poles of the Loadflom would repeL and the Similar Poles 
attraft the adverfe, or Similar ends of the Wire ; Now the 
repulfive Virtue was quite extinguifhcd, and either end 
would indifferently be attrafted by either Pole of the Mag- 
net 3 all one as if the Wire had been heated red hot (which 
is well known to deftroy the Virtue) or never had been 
touched at all. 
This 1 experimented over and over again upon Wires 
of different lengths, with the fame fuccefs. Only this 
muff be obferved, if you only bend the Wire round, 
fb as that it fhall fpring back into its place, or recoil, 
fo as to be near the fame ftraitnefs, that then no fuch, or 
but little of fuch efFcft, will enfue. But to produce this 
efFeft, the Wire muft be Jharply bent, fo as that violence maf 
be exerted upon it. If it becoyled two or three times round 
a (mail round Stick, it will befl fucceed. And farther alfo, 
it is neceflary that every part of the Wire ftiould be bent, 
to evacuate the Magnetick Virtue : For if the ends, or any 
other part happen not to fufFer the violence of bending, that 
part fhall retain its Magnetifm. As for inftance, if the 
Wire be all coyled, except half an inch, or indeed half 
a tenth of an inch at each end, every part coyled 
fhall both lofe its Verticity, and (hall incline indifferent- 
ly to either Pole of the Magnet 5 bur the two ends, (sU 
though notable to turn the v/hole Wire N.andS.) fliajl 
fly from, or tend unto the refpedive Pole of the Magnet : 
Or if every part of the Wire becoyled, except a fmall bit at 
one end only, all that coyled part, when extended, fliail 
utterly be deprived of its Magnetifm as before 5 and only 
that uncoyled bit retain its averfion, or inclination to the 
Magnetick Poles. 
From theconfideration of all which particulars, it is very 
manifeft, xthat the violence exerted upon the Wire by bend- 
ing doth utterly extirpate the Magnetick Virtue, or at leaft 
make fuch a confufion therein, that it is as if wholly deftroy- 
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