Musæum regalis societatis, or, A catalogue and description of the natural and artificial rarities belonging to the Royal Society and preserved at Gresham Colledge made by Nehemiah Grew ; whereunto is subjoyned The comparative anatomy of stomachs and guts by the same author.

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Musæum regalis societatis, or, A catalogue and description of the natural and artificial rarities belonging to the Royal Society and preserved at Gresham Colledge made by Nehemiah Grew ; whereunto is subjoyned The comparative anatomy of stomachs and guts by the same author.
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SECT. III. Of Mineral Principles.

BY Mineral Principles, I mean, neither such imaginary ones as some have talked of: nor such as may possibly have a real existence, yet were never seen solitary or uncom∣pounded: but those which come within the cognizance of sense, sc. Salt, Sulphurs, and Earths; and such Bodies as are reduceable to these Tribes. For it seemeth to me, That most subterranial Bodies are either compounded of these Three, or are hereinto resolved. So Copperas is the salt of a Metal; either as an ingredient in its Generation; or resulting from its Corrosion by some Natural Menstruum, equivalent to such as are applyed by Art. In like manner, a Bolus, as it seems to be the Basis of most Stones and Metals;

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so, upon the Resolution of the same, to be nothing but their Caput mortuum. There being a Circulation amongst Minerals, as amongst Plants and Animals; the same Princi∣ples passing from one to another. And so, probably, amongst all Bodies, at least between the Atmosphere and the Centre of the Earth.

CHAP. I. Of SALTS.

A Parcel of NATURAL SAL ARMONIAC. (Rather Ammoniac, from its supposed similitude to that of the Ancients, bred under the Sands in Africa.) This I call Natural, as being found sublimed, by the subterraneal Fire, in a Cole-Mine near New-Castle upon Tyne. Given by Dr. L. Hodgson, who first made experiment of the nature hereof. And hath answer'd several Quaeries about it, pro∣posed by Mr. Boyle. a 1.1 Here is some of it lying upon and between Beds of a light and sooty Earth; and some pure and white as Sow. It hath the perfect Tast of the Factiti∣ous; consisteth of the like Fibers or Styriae; and may be easily sublimed into Flowers. b 1.2 Cerutus hath also de∣scrib'd a Sal Ammoniac, as he calls it, sublimed by the sub∣terraneal Fires of Puteoli; but This is of a different kind, as appears from his Description of it. c 1.3 Hereof are made se∣veral Preparations of great Use to Physitians, Alchymists, and others, as the Spirit Simple, Aromatiz'd, and Tinctur'd; the Tinctur'd Flowers, &c.

A parcel of SALT taken from Tenariffe, 1674. and given by Dr. George Trumbal. 'Tis very white, and light like flowers of Sal Ammoniac, or the Earth call'd Agaricum Minerale. Taken by some to be a kind of Nitre. But not rightly. For it hath the perfect Tast of a Lixivial Salt. Makes an Effervescence with Aqua Fortis, as those Salts will, but Nitre will not do. Hath, as those, a fixed Body: neither will it flow, or flame, though exposed naked to the same fire, wherein Nitre will do both. Yet hath it somewhat of a nitrous Tast intermixed; as have also many Lixivial Salts. I conclude it therefore to be a fixed Alkaly, or, in nature, a kind of Lixivial Salt.

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Another parcel of the same sort of SALT, taken out of the Cave or the Pique of Tenariffe, 1674. by the same Hand. Different from the former, only in being of a purer white.

A Third parcel of the same, taken, I suppose, from ano∣ther quarter of the said Mountain.

A square piece of Crystalline Sal Gemmae (rather Gem∣meus) weighing almost twenty Ounces.

A Ball of Crystalline Sal Gemmeus; with another piece of the same Species.

A piece of styriated Sal Gemmeus, tinctur'd with some Rays of yellow. It grows almost in the form of Sal Ammo∣niac.

A piece of styriated Sal Gemmeus tinctur'd with partly an Amethystine, partly a Saphirine Blew.

Ambrosinus gives a Figure of Crystal of this Salt, much like that of the Corns of common Sea-Salt; from which it differs no more, than Pit-Salt.

Sal Fossilis properly so call'd, is, as it were, the Ore of the Sal Gemmeus. Yet This, as well as Metals, is sometimes found native. The principal Mines are in Poland and Ca∣labria: of which, see a Relation in the Phil. Transactions.a 1.4 In the lesser Poland, saith Comer, b 1.5 are some pieces of this Salt (he means the Ore) like huge Stones; so hard, that Houses and even whole Towns are built with them. Near Eperies, a City in Upper-Hungary, is a Salt-Mine, in which are pieces Ten thousand pounds weight. c 1.6

Of This as of common Salt, may be distill'd that Acid Liquor commonly, but absurdly call'd the Oil. This mo∣derately taken, but especially if it be dulcify'd by Cohoba∣tions with a simple, or rather with an aromatiz'd Spirit of Wine, is sometimes of excellent use to restore the Digestive Faculty to the Stomach. But the common sort, taken, as it often is, without discretion, really breeds more Diseases, than it pretends to cure. See several Preparations of Salt in Schroder and others. Ambrosinus, I think it is, who reports, d 1.7 That in the Province of Canicla, in the Great Cam's Dominions, the people melt and cast Salt into a round Form, for Money. But who ever knows the nature of common Salt, must also, that this Report is a great mistake.

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BLEW VITRIOL, Native, and crystalliz'd, from the Copper-Mines of Herngrundt in Hungary. Given by Dr. Ed∣ward Brown, together with the several Species following.

GREEN VITRIOL, Native; from the Silver-Mines of Schemnitz in Hungary.

Native GREEN VITRIOL, mixed with some Rays of a pale Blew; from the same place. With its astringent and sweetish Tasts, is joyn'd some Acritude. It grows to its own Ore, of a purplish ash-colour; and of a milder Tast.

A parcel of the same Species, from the Copper-Mine of Herngrundt.

Native VITRIOL of a pale Purple, and consisting of pointed Crystals. This also hath some Acritude. From the same Mine.

Native WHITE VITRIOL. It grows in glossy Grains like Nitre grosly powder'd; and not without some Acritude. From the same place.

Made WHITE-VITRIOL of Chremnitz.

WHITE-VITRIOL Ore of Chremnitz. Of a pale Okre colour, and meanly astringent.

A sort of Native VFRDEGRIESE, from the Copper-Mines of Herngrundt. It consisteth of flat and parallel Plates, as in a Slate; of a blewish Green, yet not so blew, as the factitious. 'Tis also of a much milder Tast. It maketh a strong ebullition with Spirit of Nitre. These from the above-mention'd Person.

A rich ORE of Green Copperas, from Cornwall. Of a kind of Brick-colour, crack'd a little with lying in the Air, and hath upon it several efflorescent lumps of Copperas.

A poorer sort of Green Copperas ORE. On one side, be∣ing scraped, of a blewish ash-colour; and with little Tast. On the other, of a yellowish Green, and tasteth strong as Vitriol. Maketh an Effervescence with Spirit of Nitre.

A Fibrous or STYRIATED ORE of Green Copperas. 'Tis white, and form'd almost like Sal Ammoniac; but hath the perfect Tast of Green Vitriol. Acids stir it not.

Besides the places mention'd, and others, Green Copperaas is plentifully made here in England, as at Debtford, and else where. The Copperas Stones or Fire-Stones are found on the Sea-shore in Essex, Hamphire, and so Westward; the best of a bright Silver-colour. For the making of Copperas,

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they make Beds sometimes an hundred feet long, and fifteen broad at top; well ram'd first with Clay, and then with Chalk. In these Beds the said Stones are laid about two feet thick: which by Sun and Rain, are gradually dissolv'd; and in five or six years time, begin to turn into a kind of Vitriolick Earth, which will swell and ferment like levened-Dough. And once in four years, the Bed is renewed with fresh Stones. In a Boyler containing about twelve Tuns of Vitriolick Liquor running from the Bed, they put in by degrees, about fifteen hundred pounds of old Iron; which both quickens the boyling, and prevents the setling and melting of the Copperas at the bottom of the Boyler, and of the Boyler it self. Sometimes, in stirring the Earth on the Beds, they find pieces of Native Copperas. See a parti∣cular and exact account of these Works at Debtford, com∣municated by Mr. Colwal, the Founder of this Musaeum, and by Me published in the Philosophical Transactions. a 1.8 Of the Nature of Vitriol, see several considerable Observa∣tions grounded on Experiment, in the same Transactions. b 1.9 Amongst other particulars, an excellent way of purifying it from its Okre.

The three principal Parts hereof are, an Acid Spirit, fixed Salt, and Sulphur. The last, a good Hypnotick, in some Cases, where Opium is not safe.

Native Vitriol, saith Ambrosinus, c 1.10 given to the quan∣tity of ʒj in any convenient vehicle, is a great Remedy in Germany and Hungary for the Plague. Blew Vitriol of ex∣cellent use against Venereal Ulcers. Both of this, and the Green, is made the Powder called Sympathetick; the De∣scription whereof may be seen in Papinius, and out of him in Wormius. I doubt not, but that the Stiptick Liquors of Mr. Lyster and of Mr. Deny, are both made of Vitriol.

A sort of ALUMINOUS Earth, found near the River Patomach in Virginia. 'Tis soft and very light; of an ash∣colour, and acid-astringent Tast, almost like that of Alum. Whether the people there make Alum of it, or use it in Deying, we have no account.

Of the Nature of Alum, see a very good Discourse in the Philosophical Transactions. d 1.11 Of the English Alum-Works an accurate Account, communicated by Daniel Col∣wal Esq and by Me published in the same Transactions. e 1.12

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The Alum-Stone (of a blackish colour, and flaky, like Cornish Slate) is found in most of the Hills between Scarbrough and the River of Tees in York-shire. As also near Preston in Lancashire. Of these Stones calcin'd, is made a Lee; and of the Lee, Alum. The Lee after the first shooting of the Alum; is called Mothers. In which, certain Nitrous and other parts call'd Slam, being predominant; to precipitate the same, they add the Lees of Kelp; made of Tangle, a Sea-Weed commonly among Oysters. And then, a certain proportion of Urine, both for the same purpose, and to keep the Kelp-Lees from hardening the Alum too much. The Mine, before it is calcin'd, being exposed to the Air, will moulder in pieces, and yield a Liquor whereof Copperas may be made.

Fallopius's Aq. Aluminis Magistralis, is of good use against untoward Ulcers. Deyers boil their Cloaths, or Yarn in Alum-Water, that they may take both a better, and more dura∣ble colour. It is used, likewise, for the making of a Leather soft and white, or fit to take a clear colour, which the Tan'd, will not do. And I little doubt, but that to wash the Skins of Beasts or Fowls herewith on both sides, or perhaps on the Feathers, only strewing Alum in fine powder, would be a good way to keep them from the Moth, and growing dank in moist Weather, and so to preserve them for ever.

CHAP. II. Of SULPHURS.

A Piece of Opacous yellow AMBER half a foot long. Given by Thomas Henshaw Esq. Found, with se∣veral lesser pieces, in digging of a Ditch under the Walls of Rensburge in Holstein, eighteen feet under ground. Which place is at least five and twenty miles both from the Baltick and German Seas.

A Piece of AMBER of the colour of Honey.

A Piece of clear yellow AMBER. Given by Captain Tailor.

Another yellow Piece, semiperspicuous; from the same Hand.

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A Ball of yellow and opacous AMBER.

A Piece of clear yellow Amber, with a CICADA drowned in it.

A Piece of Citrine Amber, with several GNATS im∣mersed.

A little Ball of citrine Amber, with an immersed Em∣met.

A Heart of yellow Amber, with two FLIES.

Two or three more Pieces, with some other INSECTS. In Septalius's Musaeum, is one so large as to bury a Frog. And Boetius a 1.13 affirms that Pieces are found sometimes as big as a mans Head.

Found in great quantity in Pomerania, and upon the Coast of Prussia in the Baltick-Sea. The Elector of Branden∣burge, Soveraign of that Coast, farmes it out b 1.14 for twenty Thousand Crowns yearly. Also plentiful on the Coasts of Soffala, Mosambique and Melinde.

Boetius describes a Powder, c 1.15 in which Amber is the chief Ingredient, and which he highly commends for the Epilepsie both in Children and grown persons. The two Salts of Amber united, saith Terzagi, d 1.16 make an admira∣ble Specifick for that Disease.

Take Yelks of Eggs sixteen, Gum Arabick ℥ij; Gum of Cherry-Tree ℥j. Dissolve them, and set them in the Sun for an Artificial Amber. Amongst the many Opinions of the Original of Amber, I put this question, Whether it is not a kind of harden'd Petroleum?

FLAKED STONE-COAL. Lithanthrax scissilis. By some called Black Amber; not properly. For, when fir'd, it hath scarce any tast or smell. Neither doth it yield any Oil, or melt, as Amber. Only makes a very weak and thin Flame, which presently vanishes; and little smoak. Yet keeps fire for a considerable time. 'Tis black, glossy, and pretty hard. Yet being struck, easily breaketh into Flakes of a square Figure. Found in Misnia, Bohemia, &c. In some Pits two Hundred paces deep. d 1.17

A STONE taken out of the Dead-Sea. Blackish and somewhat flaky. Dissoluble with Spirit of Nitre. When fir'd, it yields a sulphurious scent. Yet the barbarous Arabi∣ans use it for fewel.

A Piece of Jet. Gagates, from Gaza a River of Lycia,

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where first found. Given by Sir Rob. Moray. Of a shining colour, and in some places, flaky. It cracks when held to the fire; and in it, burns with a thick flame and smoak, and very stinking. If rub'd till its warm, it takes up pieces of Feathers, and such light Bodies. 'Tis found in France, Sicily. And in this Island, in Cleaveland, on the top of Huntley and Whitby Clifts, where the Sea-water never comes.

Pit EBONY. Ebenum fossile. Very brittle, and when held in a flame, breaks into Flakes; it burns, with a sooty smoak, into ashes; but with scarce any flame.

A parcel of ORPMENT. Auripigmentum s. Arsemicum croceum.

Native SULPHUR or BRIMSTONE, crystalliz'd, of a pale Golden colour, and semiperspicuous. Sent from Peru. The like is described in Calceolarius's Musaeum, and by Wormius.

ANOTHER Piece, of such a like colour. Found in the Pike of Tenariff, and given by Dr. George Trumbal.

A Lump of Native SULPHUR of the colour of some Olibanum Drops, or opacous yellow Amber. From the same Hand, and Place. As also,

Two Pieces of SULPHUR ORE. One, Earth, of a brown colour; the other, Stone, of a Sand-colour and gritty.

Native SULPHUR of Island. Of the colour of the common factitious Brimstone; and immersed in a stony Bed.

SULPHUR, of a curious Orange-colour, extracted out of Gold-Ore. Given by Henry Oldenburge Esq.

SULPHUR ORE of Freyberg. Here are three Pieces. One, almost of the colour of Cinabar. Put into the fire, it smells like Brimstone, but flames not. The other two, consist of blackish and ash-colour parts mixed with the red; together with some grains of Mundick. If fired, they smell like the first, but not so strongly; nor make any flame.

GREEN SULPHUR-ORE. Like that in the Copper-Mines of Suecia, mention'd by Wormius.

SULPHUR-ORE of Island. Opacous, and immersed in a blewish Glebe. If burnt, it hath the scent of Brimstone; but yet weak, and flames not.

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Of the nature of Sulphur, Copperas, and Alum, see a very good Discourse in the Phil. Transactions. a 1.18 Of the Uses, see Agricola, Libavius, Crollius, &c. I have seen a Tincture of Sulphur of Mr. Boyls, brought over the Helm, which will fume all away. I remember not where he describes it, but as I take it, 'tis made with Sal Ammoniac.

CHAP. III. Of EARTHS.

TWo Parcels of EARTH RAINED on the Archipe∣lago, upon the Eruption of M. Vesuvius, Dec. 6th 1631. Given by J. Evelyn Esq. One, is gritty, and of the colour of Amber. The other a soft Bole, and looks like powder'd Jalap. I dropped some Oil of Vitriol on them, but they stir not. This Earth began to rain about Ten of the Clock at Night, and continu'd till two next Morning: So that it lay two inches thick on the Deck of Captain W. Badily's Ship, who sent this Relation. While it rain'd, no Wind stirring. It fell in several parts a hundred Leagues distant. b 1.19

A parcel of EARTH, RAINED lately upon Tenariff. Given by Mr. Joseph Bowles, a Merchant in this City. Of a pale Clay-colour, and insipid. Yet upon the affusion of Oil of Vitriol, makes a suddain Effervescence; herein diffe∣rent from the former.

FINE SAND, from a Sand-Pit near Bruley in Kent. Given also by Mr. Evelyn. Of this is made the clearest and best English Glass. It consisteth of some Grains, as clear as Crystal: with which others obscure, being mixed, give a whitish ash-colour to the whole Mass.

A Sandy substance of a Gold-colour, found in a Vein of Stone in Hartford in New-England.

Black SAND of Virginia.

Black SAND found on the shore near New-Haven in New-England; with some Grains of red and white.

The like out of St. Christophers Island.

Fine white SAND of Saco in New-England.

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Of BOLES and other EARTHS, here are examples of all colours, as White, Ash-colour'd, Yellow, Red, Green, Blew, Brown, Black. Of which in their Order.

A parcel of MELITA EARTH. Given by Sir Phil. Skippon. By some called St. Pauls Earth. 'Tis of a white colour, but inclining to that of Mortar. Not gritty, yet less soft than many other Earths. Makes a strong Effer∣vescence with any Acid. Cerutus a 1.20 extols the use of it in Pestilential Feavers, and against Worms in Children, and not unjustly. Not only the Earth it self, but the Images, Vessels, and the like, made hereof, are fabled to derive these and other Virtues, as against the bitings of Serpents, &c. from St. Paul, who liv'd sometime there, and miraculously preserv'd himself from the Venome of the Viper. And Wor∣mius b 1.21 hath given himself the trouble to transcribe a print∣ed Paper hereof.

SAMOS EARTH. 'Tis white, and softer than the for∣mer. Maketh an ebullition with any Acid; but very weak and slow. It hath somewhat of an aromatick Tast, like that of calcin'd Harts Horn. Of this also Vessels were an∣tiently made of great esteem.

STONE MARROW. Stenomarga Agricolae, i. e. Saxi Medulla: because found between the Commissures of great Stones. Agaricus Mineralis, Imperato; from its likeness to Agarick in colour; but no further. For between the Teeth it feels somewhat like fine sand or grit; and hath no Tast. Nor is it sensible of Acids. 'Tis sometimes used by Chirurgions for the drying of Ulcers.

A BOLE like that of WHITE c 1.22 Terra Lemnia. Very close and heavy, and when scraped, of a pale white, smooth, and glossy; almost like to white Wax. 'Tis but slowly dis∣solved in the mouth.

This and other like smooth Earths are commonly called Pingues, or Fat: absurdly, for Laeves or Subtiles. Their seeming Pinguitude proceeding only from the exquisite fineness of the Particles of which they consist.

A smooth BOLE, almost of the colour of Castile Soap. More easily dissolved than the former, so as it seems to melt in the mouth like Butter.

A parcel of very white, light, and soft EARTH. Taken out of the Cave opened at the Royal Fort at Plymouth;

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where it lies in little Veins containing much water. Sup∣posed to be the materia prima of white Marble.

A White EARTH lying in a Load degenerated from Tin. very gritty, and insensible of Acids.

A White EARTH, with a Ray of Red; very soft, with∣out any grit, and inaffected with Acids. Nor hath it the common Tast of Boles, but is altogether insipid. Found in the same place, as the former; but in different Veins. Supposed to be the Embrio of white and red Marble.

A BOLE of a yellowish sandy colour; somewhat gritty and friable.

SILESIAN BOLE. Of a redish yellow, exactly like the paler Emplastrum de Minio. As dense as any other, crack∣ling a little betwixt the Teeth. Yet without the least Par∣ticle of Grit; feels as smooth as Castile-Soap; scrapes with a gloss; and breaks like Bees-Wax, or the Salve above-said. Tasteth like other Boles.

The BOHEMICK sealed BOLE. It agrees in all pro∣perties with the former; saving that it hath somewhat more of red.

The HEPATICK BOLE of LEMNOS. Of kin to the red Lemnian. And answers to that which Wormius describes by the Name of Terra sigillata hepatica. It stirreth not with Acids.

ANOTHER of the same more PALE. Somewhat harder than the Armenian Bole. It makes a small ebullition with Oil of Vitriol, and with Spirit of Nitre a very strong one.

I take the principal Difference between Earths, as applied to Medical Use, to be this, That some are not affected with Acids; others are: Those, Pauperes or Fatuae; coming nearer to simple or meer Earths; These Saline, or impregnated with a Mineral Alkali, and therefore of greater energy.

A smooth and pale redish CLAY, lying in a little vein, running East and West, through a great Pillar of Sand, in a firme Marble-Rock. Supposed to be the Embrio of the red Marble.

Red LEMNOS EARTH. As red as Radle; but much more close and coherent, and so colours not the Fingers. Theophrastus a 1.23 reckons up three sorts of Terra Lemnia; sc. the Deep Red, the Pale Red, and the Whitish.

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Celebrated by some of the Antients against Poyson, which, if right, it expels by Vomit. Yet Theophrastus saith, That in his time, it was used only for Painting.

ARMENIAN BOLE. From that part of Armenia next to Cappadocia. Both of a deep and a pale Red. Very soft, and easily rub'd to powder. Never makes any ebulli∣tion with Acids. First brought to Rome in Galen's time, when the Plague was there. In which, and other Malignant Diseases, it hath generally been esteemed of good use. Joubertus relates, as a Testimony of its Virtue, That four men preparing some Cathartick of Antimony, were all well nigh suffocated. And that upon his giving them each ℈ij of this Bole, they became very well. But the question is, Whether so soon as they were got out of the reach of the Antimonial Fumes, (from which we may be sure he took them) they would not have been well without it?

An English BOLE, like the Armenian. From Sir J. Hoskins.

A Red MINERAL EARTH, with some little glossiness in some places. Of the colour of the deepest Armenian Bole.

Red Cornish MARLE, used in Agriculture. It hath some grains of fine Sand, which, through a Glass, looks like Me∣tal. A piece also of common Radle.

A BOLE consisting of Red and White Plates, thin and parallel; so as to look like striped Work.

BERG-GRUN; a Green Earth, the sediment of a green Water in the Copper-Mine at Herngrundt. Given by Dr. Ed. Brown. 'Tis used by Painters.

A VERDAZURINE BOLE. So I call it, for that it is on the out-side of a blewish green, like Verdegriese. Within, of the colour of a Leek. It sticks to the Tongue, as the Armenian, or Lemnian, and hath the like Tast. Stirs not with Acids. Not unlike to that, which is described by Wormius with the Name of Creta Viridis. Yet cannot be the same, unless that Name be ill given: for Chalk properly so call'd, maketh a strong Effervescence with any Acid.

A GREEN EARTH like that which Kentman a 1.24 calls Saponariam s. Fulloniam.

A BLEWISH Grey MARLE mixed with Red. Used in Agriculture.

A BLEWISH EARTH, with the signature of an Escal∣lop upon it. It gently dissolves with Acids.

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Earthen BALLS, about as big as mounting Stones, of a Blewish colour, or that of Tobacco-Pipe-Clay. With other irregular Lumps of the same nature: found among the Earth of a Hill overturn'd at Kenebank in New-England.

A Piece of IRISH-SLATE, so called. Given by Mr. Rob. Hook. Of the same colour as the Cornish, only somewhat paler. But as soft as the Terra Lemnia, and several other Boles. And is therefore to be reckon'd amongst them. Be∣sides the common Tast of Boles, it hath a little Astringency. Yet not alike perceived in all, for there is better and worse: which Apothecaries will do well to observe.

Kentman a 1.25 mentions a sort of very white Earth near Padoa, which in a short time would turn Blew, only by being exposed to the Aer.

A sort of BROWN EARTH, very light; lying in Veins, incompassed with a Body of greenish Sand. From Corn∣wall.

A BLACK EARTH, taken out of a spot enclosed in the same Sand, without any Vein issuing from it.

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