tion'd divers of my Thoughts and Expe<lb/>
riments concerning Fire. </s></p>

<p type="main"> <s>WE de&longs;igned to try whether or no <lb/>
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divers Magnetical Experiments <lb/>
would exhibit any unu&longs;ual <emph type="italics"/>Phænomena,<emph.end type="italics"/><lb/>
being made in our Evacuated Receiver <lb/>
in&longs;tead of the open Air: But for want of <lb/>
lei&longs;ure and conveniency to pro&longs;ecute &longs;uch <lb/>
Tryals, we were induced to re&longs;erve the <lb/>
re&longs;t for an other time, and to content our <lb/>
&longs;elves with making that which follows. <lb/>
</s> <s>We convey'd into the Receiver a little <lb/>
Pede&longs;tal of Wood, in the mid&longs;t of which <lb/>
was perpendicularly erected a &longs;lender <lb/>
Iron, upon who&longs;e &longs;harp point an excited <lb/>
Needle of Steel purpo&longs;ely made, and of <lb/>
about five Inches long, was &longs;o placed <lb/>
that hanging in an <emph type="italics"/>Æquilibrium<emph.end type="italics"/> it could <lb/>
move freely towards either hand. </s> <s>Then <lb/>
the Air being after the u&longs;ual manner <lb/>
pumped out, we apply'd a Load-&longs;tone <lb/>
moderately vigorous to the out-&longs;ide of <lb/>
of the Gla&longs;s, and found that it Attracted <lb/>
or Repell'd the ends of the Needle, accor<lb/>
ding to the Laws Magnetical, without <lb/>
any remarkable difference from what the <lb/>
&longs;ame Load-&longs;tone would have done had