Mucirogr api hf 
on feveral forts of Trees; {uch as’ Elders, Maples; !Willowsseczandis 
commonly call’d by the name of Spuwk; but thatawe.meer:with/te-bd 
dold in Shops, isbrought from beyond Seas): I found: it to be maie.dfiaiy— 
exceeding delicate texture: For the fubftance:of it feels; and looks te 
the naked eye,and may be ftretch'd any way,exa@lyikea verpfinépiece 
of Chamois Leather, or wafh'd Leather: but it is of :fémewhat abrowher. 
hew;and nothing neer fo {trongs ‘but:examining, it.with my: Aicrofebpey 
T found it of fomewhat another make then any.:kind:of Leather 3:for 
whereas both Chamozs, and.all other kinds of Leathen Ichave yetsview' dg 
confit of an infinite company of filaments, fomewhat like buthes inter- 
woven one within another, that is,of bigger parts or ftems, as it were, and 
{maller branchings that grow out of them; or like a heap of Ropes ends, 
where each of the larger Ropes.by degrees fee oru Into 
_ many: fmaller Borde, Nae Seana Gal Lene Pihes, and 
thofe Lines into Threads, @c. and thefe {trangely intangled, or inter- 
woven One Within another? The texture of this Touch-wood € 
more like that ofa Lock or a Fleece'df Wool; for it confitts of ain ititinit ; 
number of {mall filaments, all of them; as fart’ as I could perceive] of thd 
fame. bigiiels like*thofe of a Sponge, but that the filaments of this were 
not a'twentieth part of the bignefs of thofe of a Sponges and I could not 
OH g ontidmols: doum su 
taf 
tagged edge, I could among feveral of thofe fores petceive’fmall te 
- Butto proceed, The felling at Spon 
of the Waterin it above'the ‘furface of the Wat 
from the fame caufe; of : which 7 
very ftrange, but having inadetrial of it my {ElE by d ee 
