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31°, and when they were separated in two divisions (as in No. 6.), 
it diminished to 23°; but increased, on a separation of each 
magnet (No. 7.), to 26°. 
4. The next arrangement was in two parallel lines in contact, 
cf three magnets each (No. 8.), when the deviation was again 
31° ; and, separated into three portions (as in No. 9.), it dimi- 
nished to 22°. 
5. In like maimer, each of the arrangements represented in 
PL XI. No. 10, 11, and 12, gave a deviation also of 31° ; but on 
each magnet being disconnected, it diminished to 25°, 26°, and 
28°; and, separated only partially (that is sidewise, but con- 
nected lengthwise), the deviation was 29° in No. 11., 30° No. 12., 
and 31° No. 13. 
Now, it is a remarkable result of these simple experiments, 
that, in the various arrangements that were made, a great ac- 
quisition of power above that of the detached power of all 
the magnets, was invariably obtained, by uniting them in a 
magnetical order, — that is, either with north and south poles, 
contiguous, and in contact (as in Nos. 1, 5. and 8.); or, with 
the northern portion of one laid parallel to, and in contact 
with, the southern portion of the next (as in Nos. 10, 11. and 
12.'); and it is also remarkable that in almost whatever man- 
ner the arrangement was varied, the magnetical order being 
strictly preserved, the result was the formation of a magnetical 
battery , of exactly the same attractive force, which was uniformly 
equivalent to a deviation of 31° in each of the arrangements, 
No. 5, 8, 10, ll, and 13. The accession of power gained by 
all these arrangements above the order of the magnets in No. 3., 
which is the usual series of compound magnets, points out a 
method of augmenting the intensity of artificial magnets, by 
adopting any of these arrangements which promise, from the 
analogous experiments, to be capable of affording a very great 
augmentation of intensity. All the preceding experiments, it 
appears to me, tend to illustrate the probable manner of the 
action of the magnetic particles in a magnetised body, — each little 
magnet made use of being supposed to represent a single particle ; 
and they, in a particular manner, point out how the individual 
magnetisms of each particle, when duly arranged, contribute to 
the total effect. If this be the case, the action of a magnet in 
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