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fore the BilTedion. The Cafe alfo would have been 
the fame, if the Stone had been divided unequally at 
a;, or elfewhere tranfverfe to its Polarity, Fig. i/, 
and of each Fruftum, one half would have been a 
North Pole, and the other half a South one, with its 
Equinodtial in the Middle as before. The whole Stone 
will lift a larger Iron than either Fruftum j but both 
Frufta, while out of the Reach of one another’s Ver- 
tue, will each of them lift his Iron, both of which 
Irons will be heavier than what the whole Stone 
could lift before it was divided. If the faid Frufta 
are again joined clofe together at the fame Ends which 
originally adhered. Fig. 17?, being as they ftand di- 
re<fted towards each other Fig. xd ; or if the oppofite 
Ends of both are joined together, as they ftand direded 
towards each other. Fig. 3^^,! do not fee (provided the 
Joint^ is very good, that there may be a Contad all 
over it fo good as a Workman can make) why they 
fhould not compofe again one entire Loadftone, fo good 
as it was before it was divided, in all Refpeds (Allovr- 
ance being firft given for the Wafte in fawing it afun- 
der, and mending the Joint) and their joined Poles 
mutually attra<ding one another, attrad: nothing elfe 
at the Joint (which being in the Middle, would become 
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