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To the 82, &c. Once melting is enough. The good melts best, and the best, first, There is sometimess half odds in the goodness. The best is distinguisht by its weight.
To the 88, 89. There is a flight in the smoak, which falling upon the Grass, poysons those Cattel that eat of it. They find the taste of it upon their lips to be sweet, when the smoak chances to fly in their Faces. Brought home, and laid in their houses, it kills Rats and Mice. If this flight mix with the Water, in which the Oar is wash't, and be carried away into a streame, it hath poisoned such Cattel, as have drunk of it after a current of 3 Miles. What of this flight falls upon the sand, they gather up to melt in a Flagg-hearth, and make Shot and Sheet-lead of it.
To the 90. They sometimes find Slaggs, 3, 4, or 5 foot under ground, but such as they judge cast aside heretofore.
The Promiscuous Inquiries, annexed in the Numb. 19, are most of them satisfied in the former Answers.
But as to the Mineral Lawes of Mendip, I am promised an Account of them, which I shall transmit to you, as soon as I have received it.
Concerning subterraneous Dæmons, they have never seen any, but sometimes have heard knockings beyond their own Works, which, when follow'd by them, have afforded plenty of Ore.
About 2 years since, one King of Wells in his Groove found a piece of Ore, in which they fancied the shape of a Man, Eyes, Armes, Leggs, full Breast: The whole was about 4 inches in length; the Mine proved rich.
An Extract of a Letter.
Written from Franckfurt in the Oder, by the learned Professor Johannes Christophorus Beckman to the Publisher, concerning Osteocolla, and some other observations in those parts; Englished out of the High-Dutch, as follows.
SIr, the Conversation with several worthy Members of the R. Society, I had the honor to be admitted to, when I was in England, as it then awakned me, and begot in me a revolution,better
