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# Title: Philosophical Principles Of Natural Religion (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 53)
# Folio 198, page id 797370323:0356
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prichin chis onter Crust oF Parth, there
must Bc a Discontinuity, For Come conside.
rable distance, quire round, and thac
there as succccding this, a large Sphere,
MOvins after a Certain manner, to acconnt
For the variation of the Maenet; but l am
ot Opinion the Causes ot ehis variation is
eo be Toughe in the Magnet ic CeIF, and
noc in (o remote and (o farfetch d a C ause;
For ic Pcems pretey odd, thâc a Sphere
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ehis or the ocher may abore Gronnd. II
the Farth ivere an univer (al Maenet (a5
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nothermanner, and from a differene L aW.
One mighe as probably expece a diferene
turn and Agure of internal Orbs t0 ac.
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Fal others oF the Wetals, Minerals and va-
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