thereunto, caufeth different effe&s, as to the ftrength it recef- 
veth from the Stones himfelf as having tryed all forts of 
Steely that he could poffibiy procure, and all the different Tern- 
per she could imagine, for the mod powerful receiving and re- 
tainingthe vertue from the Load stone • wherein he affirms to 
have folly fatisfied himlelf, fo that he can infufe. fuch vertue into 
a piece of Steel, that it (hall take up a piece of Iron of two 
Ounces weight or more 5 and give alfo to a Weedfe, the vertue 
of conforming to the Magnet ical Meridian , without the help of -a-- 
Load-SUne, or. any thing elfe , that hath received vertue there- 
So far this Anfwerer 5 whom as we cannot but much commend; 
for his diligence in fearching, and franknefs of communicating y 
fowe give thefe particulars to the publick, that further Tryals 
may be made by others, for more difeovery 5 hoping withall,. 
that the famefoquifitive perfon , that hath made thefe returns ,, 
will not fcruple to add to them the wayes, he life s for infilling 
that Magnetical vertue into Steel and Needles , without the help 
of a Loads one, fpoken of in the end of this his Anfmr* 
EttraSl of a Letter, Written from Paris, containing an Ac- 
count of fome EfeHs of the Transfufion cf Blond ; and- 
of two Monfir ous B irths , &c«. 
1 
I wasprefent, when M Gayantdhew’d the Transfufion of the 
Bloud, putting that' of a Young Dog into the Veins of an Old, 
who, two hours after, did leap and frisk y whereas he was aimed 
blind with age, and could hardly ftirr before. 
In the Houfe of M. Lour delots was foew’d a Monfter in form of 
an Ape, having all over its (boulders, almoft to his middle, a 
mafs of flefh, that came From the hinder part of its head, and 
hung down in form of a little Cloak. The report is, .that the 
Woman that; brought it forth, had feen on a Stage an Ape fo • 
eloathed : The mod remarkable thing was, that the (aid mafs : 
of flefo was: divided in four parts^ correfpondcnt'to the Goat,, 
| the Ape did carry, . The Woman, .upon inquiry, was found to » 
have gone five months with Child, before fee had met with the 
accident: of that unhappy fight. , Many queffipns- were-on this 
Qccafiou agitated ; viz, stout the Power of Imagination, and 
whether** 
