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HAving wet a red Mineral, (which I suspect∣ed to be Iron Ore,) with Linseed Oyl; and preserv'd the Powder in a red hot Crucible for about two hours, it was turn'd black; and when cool, had acquir'd a Magnetical Virtue, which another Portion of it did, tho' it was not as the other, wet with that Oyl.