C *45 ) 
Sulpicius Severus de B. Martino loqueiis ait, gloriam 
martyris eum adeo affedafTe, ut, fi iicuifFet, equuleum 
Jponte afcendijfet machinae figura ac ratio fulpenfi- 
onis, quemadmodum id facere potuifTet, aperte fatis 
oflendunt : in furca autem le ipliim nemo lufpendere 
potuit. 
In fumma autem, cum tota hujufce rei probatio vete- 
ram fcriptorum teftimoniis praecipue nitatur, ut plura 
adferre, quae baud parva copia fele obtulerunt, fuper- 
vacaneum duximus ; ita nec pauciora ad plenam ejus 
explicationem fufficere exiflimavimus. Verum quae- 
cunque de ea apud antiques leguntur, uni aut alteri fpe- 
ciei fiipra deferiptae facile tribui poflunt.Qui ad audtoris 
igitur aetatem, et diverfos loquendi modes diverfis 
temporibus de equuleo ufurpatos attenderit ; nihil, 
opinor, difficultatis in pofterum inveniet, quid de hoc • 
tormenti gen ere ftatuere debeat ; in quo explicando 
tot viri eruditi hadlenus fe fruftra terferunt. 
® Epift. 2, 
V. Jn Account of a Treatije entituled^ Calcula- 
tions and Tables relating to the artradtive 
Virtue of Loadftones, <src. ^Printed Anno 
1725^; 
T he Author, (the Hon. Lord Paifley) by fevcral 
Experiments very carefully made, has obferved, 
that if two Loadftones are perfedly homogeneous, that 
is, if their Matter be of the fame fpecifick Gravity, and 
of the fame Virtue in all Parts of one Stone, as in the 
other, and that like Parts of their Surfaces are cap’d or 
arm’d with Iron, then the Weights they fuftain will be 
as the Squares of the Cube Roots of the Weights of the 
L J 1 Load- 
