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and set them at a just distance, and it drew the filings to it, though the Diamondwere by. I fay this, lest they should think I failed in the trial, and to have rsken aLoadstone of twenty or thirty pound weight, and fastened an ounce of iron to it, andthen to have taken a very small Diamond, and put it to them to make trial with.

Chap. LIV.

Goats blood doth not free the Loadstone from the inchantment of the Diamond.

J Said, That from false Principles, are drawn most false Conclusions. Also J said,That it is related that the juice of Garlick smeered on the Loadstone, will takeaway its attraction of iron; and, That when the Diamond is by , it will not drawiron , or will let it fail. But because (fay some) Goats blood will break the Dia-mond, if the Loadstone be anoynted with Goats blood, it will recover. Catf,a nmm Geoponic. Gr*c. The Loadstone draws iron to it, and again drives it away from it,if it be annointed with Garlick : but that the force almost lost may be restored, itmust be washed in Goats blood. Rhenmus the Interpreter of Dionysus.

'Gains which , nor fire , norflee I ever won ;

(j oats blood if warm , can breakjhe DiamondsHor strokes o' th* Hammer can consume this Stone ,

Hfaich from the Loadfione doth the Iron ta\e ,

That it wouldstill embrace *t t let alone .*

Diamonds , Loadstones vertues empty make ,

Okfarbodeus of the same.

tA Diamond is mighty hard: a StoneThat on the Anvil never can be broke ;

Nvr steel , nor fire hurt it , jet *tis known ,

It crumbles tn Goats bloods if latd to soak >

Since therefore there is an Antipathy between the Diamond and the Loadstone zand there is as great Antipathy between the Diamond and Goats blood , as there issympathy between Goats blood and the Loadstone ; We ate from this Argumentproceeded thus far, that when the vertue of the Loadstone is grown dull, citherby the presence of the Diamond, or stink of Garlick, is it be washed in Goats bloodit will then recover its former force, and be made more strong: but I have tried thatall the reports arc false. For the Diamond is not so hard as men fay it is s for it willyield to steel, and to a moderate fire: nor doth it grow soft in Goats blood, or Ca-mels blood, or Asses blood : and' our Jewellers connr all these Relations false andridiculous. Nor is the vertue of the Loadstone, being lost , recovered by Goatsblood- I have said so much, to let men see what false Conclusions arc drawn fromfalse Principles.

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Chap. LV. • j;*.

The Iron touched with a Diamond will turn to the North. » ^n i

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B Ut this is most true, that I found out by chance when I made trial , 1 whetherthe Diamond had any force* to weaken the Loadstones vertue, as I said : sotfif you rub a stecl-Ncedle on a Diamond, and then put it into a Boat, ot thrust k.through a reed, or hang it up by a Threed, it will presently turn to the North, al-most as well as if it had been touched with the Loadstone % bat something mots!faintly. And, whit is worth noting, the contrary pare will cam the iron t© th® 1

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