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II. A eolle&ion of the magnetical Experiments 
communicated, to the Royal Society by 
Gowin Knight M. B. & F. R. S. in the 
Tears 1 746 and 1 747. 
I. 
An account of fome magnetical Experi- 
ments, exhibited before the Royal Society on 
Thurfday the iqth of February 1 746, and 
of which the Prefident, who had before feen 
the fame performed with more deliberation 
on the nth of the fame month , was pleafeo. I 
to make the following report. 
Read Feb. 19. | j EING on Wednefday the i ith of this 
*74 -7- jj inftant February at the houfe of Mr. 
Knight , I did there in company with our worthy bro- 
ther IVilliam Jones Efq; fee the following experi- 
ments 5 which Mr. Knight was defirous I fhould, as 
on this day, report to the Society ; before whom he is 
alfo now prepared to exhibit the fame, as well as the 
circumftances of the place and the number of the 
company will allow. 
He firft produced two almoft equal bars of 
hardened fteel, to which he had communicated a 
ftrong magnetic virtue. Thefe bars were nearly 
fquare, each being of the length of about 1 5 inches 
and two tenths, and of the breadth and thicknefs 
of a little more than half an inch : one of thefe 
bars 
