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I'fliall therefore prelume to give a Plan of them, an 
Horizontal one, and fubmit it and the following 
Quarks to theConfideration of that Learned Body. 
A. The South Angle of the Room where the- 
Lightning enter’d. 
B. The Diredion of the Lightning. 
C. The Polar or Magnetick Line. 
D. The Box with the Knives lying in a Diredion 
parallel to the longer Sides of the Box. 
Quare , Whether the Knives and Forks lying in 
fuch a Diredion as either to coincide, or make but 
an acute Angle with the magnetick Line, might any 
ways contribute to their imbibing this magnetick 
Virtue •, fince a Bar of Iron placed in luch a Di- 
redion, lhall in a fmall time receive a tranfient Po- 
larity, and if it continue a long time in that Pofi- 
tion, a fix’d and permanent one? 
Quare, 
