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Excerpt from The Mariner's Compass in an Iron Ship: How to Keep It Efficient, and Use It Intelligently, With Some Remarks on Electric Installation in Its Relation to the Compass
The late Sir Edward Sabine also writes: All attempts that have hitherto been made to connect the secular mag netic change with any other physical phenomena, either terrestrial or cosmical, have signally failed.
Magnetism. - Certain substances, natural or artificial, have the power Of attracting iron, and are popularly known as magnets, the cause of this attraction is called magnetism.
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