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Rh of, and which all the Philoophers, encourag'd by his Promies, endeavour'd to dig up.

that which urpriz'd me mot was to read in his Work, in expres Terms, the new Attraction, the Invention of which is acrib'd to Sir Iaac Newton. mut earch, says Lord Bacon, whether there may not be a kind of magnetic Power, which operates between the Earth and heavy Bodies, between the Moon and the Ocean, between the Planets, &c. In another Place he ays, either heavy Bodies mut be carried towards the Center of the Earth, or mut be reciprocally attracted by it; and in the latter Cae 'tis evident, that the nearer Bodies, in their falling, draw towards the Earth, the tronger they will attract one another. We mut, ays he, make an Experiment to ee whether the the [sic] ame Clock will go fater on Top of a Mountain or at the Bottom of a Mine. Whether the Strength of the Weights decreases on the Mountain, and increaes in the Mine. 'Tis probable