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Those who consider [[underline]] Gravity [[/underline]] as a [[underline]] quality inherent [[/underline]] in Matter, call this quality an [[underline]] attraction [[/underline]]; and to illustrate [[strikethrough]] d [[/strikethrough]] their meaning, as well as to prove that such a quality as they speak of does actually reside in bodies, they refer us to the attraction of the Loadstone. Now the question is this; whether [[underline]] Gravity  [[/underline]] be the [[underline]] effect [[/underline]] of some [[underline]] material [[strikethrough]] cause, [[/underline]] such as they suppose [[/strikethrough]] Agent, or whether it is owing to some [[underline]] immaterial cause [[/underline]], such as they suppose their [[underline]] attraction [[/underline]] to be?  If Gravity be owing to the [[underline]] latter [[/underline]] of these, then the attraction of the Magnet can afford no proof nor illustration of such a thing, unless [[underline]] that also [[/underline]] be occasioned by an immaterial virtue: but that it certainly is not; for the following reasons. first, because the Loadstone may be deprived of its attractive power, which it could not be if that power were [[underline]] inherent [[/underline]] in the particles of which it is composed. Gold dust will have exactly the same weight as the same quantity of Gold in a solid lump, and will be [[underline]] attracted [[/underline]] (as we speak) toward the earth with the same force.  but this does not hold in the Loadstone; the power of which loses its effect, and if a large stone be divided into several small pieces, the [[underline]] sum [[/underline]] of the attraction in those pieces does greatly exceed the attraction of the original & intire mass from whence they were broken.  Secondly, if the attraction of Magnetism were essential to any matter, than it could not be [[underline]] given [[/underline]] to any body not naturally invested with it; the contrary to which is true from Experience; for a Loadstone will give it to Iron, & one piece of Iron will give it to another.  but this is not the case with [[underline]] Gravity [[/underline]].  Thirdly, [[underline]] Gravity [[/underline]] as a [[underline]] quality [[/underline]], cannot be illustrated by [[underline]] Magnetism [[/underline]] as a quality, because Magnetism is occasioned by the action of other [[underline]] matter [[/underline]] on the magnetical body.  For how does it happen that [[underline]] fire [[/underline]] will give or change or take away the effect, unless that all-penetrating element be the natural of magnetism? Lightning falling accidentally on instruments of Iron, has
made them strongly magnetical, and they have retained this power for ^ [[insertion]] several [[/insertion]] [[strikethrough]] many [[/strikethrough]] years. It has also been known, more than once, to change the direction of magnetic needles on shipboard, so that Pilots not aware of the accident have steered a course contrary to what they designed.  The Electrical fire will also make a small needle magnetical, as Mr. Franklin found by trial. a rod of Iron heated in the fire & cooled in the directions of the Poles will become magnetical, & either attract or repel the needle according to the position you give it in cooling it. then again, iron already magnetical may be deprived of its power by the action of fire, just as a body by burning will be deprived of its colour and turned black; tho' the same fire that [[underline]] takes away [[/underline]] colour, will also [[underline]] give [[/underline]] it if applied properly, for Iron in heating will receive all the colours of the prism as the degree of fire changes in it. [[underline]] Magnetism [[/underline]] therefore is no more an [[underline]] immaterial quality [[/underline]] in a body than [[underline]] colour [[/underline]] is. colour is nothing but the effect of fire or light acting on the body; and the same element that performs this, is well able to produce all the phænomena of magnetism.  Many other symptoms might be added to prove that what we call [[underline]] attraction [[/underline]] in the loadstone is only an effect of some material fluid. and if magnetism be owing to the action of matter, it is strongly to be presumed that [[underline]] Gravity [[/underline]] is owing to the same. magnetism is so far from tempting us to rest in gravity as a quality, that it rather encourages us to search after its cause. W.J. [[strikethrough illegible]]

The diurnal ^ [[insertion]] mean [[/insertion]] motion of the earth is 360° x 86400"each4'"/ 365"D 5H. 48m.57s=,98565 fere',which converted in^to time gives 3m.56"33'" 21.^IV for the time of each fixed Star transiting the Meridian ^ [[insertion]] sooner [[/insertion]] [[strikethrough]] later [[/strikethrough]] than on the preceding night.  V. De La Caille's Astro. § II. Chap. I. Art. 8. from page 147 to 152.  

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Instructions, beginnings of underlines and strikethroughs says use [[ ]] and [[/ ]] to mark end. (not sure if this really matters.---YES it does matter see blue help tab to above right!)