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48 having a bright iron railing around it, the part not here shewn was never distinct.

“s s. The warp of magnetic-fluid, reaching between the person impregnated with such fluid, and the air-loom magnets to which it is prepared ; which being a multiplicity of fine wires of fluid, forms the sympathy, streams of attraction, repulsion, &c. as putting the different poles of the common magnet to objects operates ; and by which sympathetic warp the assailed object is affected at pleasure : as by opening a vitriolic gaz valve he becomes tortured by the fluid within him ; becoming agitated with the corrosion through all his frame, and so on in all their various modes of attacking the human body and mind, whether to actuate or render inactive ; to make ideas or to steal others ; to bewilder or to deceive ; thence to the driving with