We have just escaped another terrible shipping disaster onthe Manncles the group of rocks off Falmouth, on which the Muhe qun went to pious in the Into autainn of Fortunately, this time, there hive loss of life, hut the American liner Paris ix still on the rocks, only "few hundred yards from the spot where fo many of the Mokegan's victims sank, Phe extraordinary coincidence of two great liners diverging some twenty miles from the course, isoly the same spot, hins caused u revival of theory that there a strong magnetic influence in the Manacles which drays vessels from their course. But the theory is as opposed to common sense ax itis to science. It is clour thit if the compass hal been deflected by n magnetic influence from the Manacles the first effect would have been to divert the course of the vessel outwards, amd although the attraction might after: wards have brought her ashore somewhere further along the Cornwall coast it could never have brought her on to the Manacles themselves. But apart from this there is known to be no stich magnetic influence in the Manacles, nor is there anywhere on the face of the north a mass of rock with sufficient magnetic power to cause such accidents as those which have happened to the Mohegan und the Paris.
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