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tlemen that are chosen as the patriots of your 

 respective countries, to take speedy care of: which 

 done, I shall not then doubt the happy issue of my 

 undertakings in this design, whereby concealed 

 treasures, which now seem utterly lost to mankind, 

 shall be confined to so universal a piety, and brought 

 into use by the industry of converted penitents, 

 whose wretched carcases the impartial laws have, or 

 shall dedicate, as untimely feasts, to the worms of the 

 earth, in whose womb those deserted mineral riches 

 must ever lie buried as lost abortments, unless those 

 be made the active midwives to deliver them. For, 

 my lords, I humbly conceive them to be the fittest of 

 all men to effect this great work, for the ends and 

 causes which I have before expressed. 



All which, my lords, I humbly refer to your grave 

 and solid judgments to conclude of, together with 

 such other assistances to this frame, as your own 

 oraculous wisdom shall intimate, for the magnifying 

 our Creator in his inscrutable providence, and admi 

 rable works of nature. 



Certain experiments made by the Lord BACON about 

 weight in air and water. 



A NEW sovereign of equal weight in the air to the 

 piece in brass, overweigheth in the water nine grains : 

 in three sovereigns the difference in the water is but 

 twenty-four grains. 



The same sovereign overweigheth an equal weight 

 of lead, four grains in the water, in brass grains for 

 gold : in three sovereigns about eleven grains. 



