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It was then further propofed, that the temper'd 
needle, having its virtue again deftroyed, fhouid be 
touched upon the fine armed Terella belonging to 
the Society , which was the noble prefent of their 
late worthy member the Right Honourable James 
Earl of Abercorn, which is efteemed one of the beft 
in England , and is faid to have lifted in his Lord- 
fhip's hands upwards of .40 pounds: the fame. was 
immediately brought, and the needle being touched 
therewith, was found to have acquired a ftrong po- 
larity, and to lift about the fame weight, as when 
it was before touched upon Mr. Knight's large armed 
artificial magnet 5 that is to fay about fifteen penny- 
weight. 
II. 
An Account of fome new Experiments lately 
made with Artificial Magnets, by the fame. 
June 4, 1747. 
Read July 2.^1 ^ H E Apparatus for touching of 
x 747* Needles, which I fometime fince 
had the Honour to fhew before the Royal Society , 
was as perfect as I could have wifh’d, as far as 
relates to the intended Ufe of it : But the man- 
ner in which the two Bars were difpofed in 
their Cafes made the Length of them fomething in- 
commodious, efpecially in thofe of the largeft Size. 
This made me defirous of trying if fome Method 
could not be found out of placing the Bars parallel 
to each other without Danger of weakening their 
Force, by which means the Cafes would be reduced 
to half their Length. I remembered that fome Years 
ago, 
