And therefore surely more moderate expressions become this action, then what the Ancients have used, which some have delivered in the most violent terms of their language; so _Austin_ calls it, _Mirabilem ferri raptorem_: _Hippocrates_ λίθος τὸν σίδηρον ἁρπάζει, _Lapis qui ferrum rapit_. _Galen_ disputing against _Epicurus_ useth the term ἕλκειν, but this also is too violent: among the Ancients _Aristotle_ spake most warily, ὅστις τὸν σίδηρον κινεῖ, _Lapis qui ferrum movet_: and in some tolerable acception do run the expressions of _Aquinas_, _Scaliger_ and _Cusanus_. Many relations are made, and great expectations are raised from the _Magnes Carneus_, or a Loadstone, that hath a faculty to attract not only iron but flesh; but this upon enquiry, and as _Cabeus_ also observed, is nothing else but a weak and inanimate kind of Loadstone, veined here and there with a few magnetical and ferreous lines; but consisting of a bolary and clammy substance, whereby it adheres like _Hæmatites_, or _Terra Lemnia_, unto the Lips. And this is that stone which is to be understood, when Physitians joyn it with _Ætites_, or the Eagle stone, and promise therein a vertue against abortion. There is sometime a mistake concerning the variation of the Compass, and therein one point is taken for another. For beyond that Equator some men account its variation by the diversion of the Northern point, whereas beyond that Circle the Southern point is Soveraign, and the North submits his preheminency. For in the Southern coast either of _America_ or _Africa_, the Southern point deflects and varieth toward the Land, as being disposed and spirited that way by the Meridional and proper Hemisphere. And therefore on that side of the Earth the varying point is best accounted by the South. And therefore also the writings of some, and Maps of others, are to be enquired, that make the Needle decline unto the East twelve degrees at _Capo Frio_, and six at the straits of _Magellan_; accounting hereby one point for another, and preferring the North in the Liberties and Province of the South. [Sidenote: _That Garlick hinders not the attraction of the Loadstone._]