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the fame colour, they would be of, were they mixed together in 
a mortar ; liquids, as broth and fpoon-meat, returned to his 
mouth all one as dry and lolid food 5 the viftuals leemed to the 
patient to he heavy in the lower part of his throat, until they had 
undergone the fecond chewing 5 afterwards they would pafs clean 
away ; and he always obferved, that if he eat variety of things, 
what he fwallowed firft, would again come up firft to be chewed j 
if this faculty intermitted at anytime, it portended ficknefs, and 
he was never well, till it returned again 3 the patient was always 
thus affected, fince he could remember 3 his father Ibmetimes 
chewed his cud, but in fmall quantities, and nothing like 
his fon. 
^fhe \Yeil-India Way of drejjlng Buck and Doe-Skins , by Sir 
Rob. Southwel. Phil.Tranf. N^ 194. p. 532. 
AFTER the pelt is taken off, it is firil ftretched out by 
lines on a Ibrt of rack for drying them, and the brains of the 
deer are taken out, and laid on mols, or dried grals, and then 
dried in the fun, or at afire, to preferve them: When the hunt- 
ing time is over, the women drefs the fkins, firft, by putting 
them in a pond, or hole of water, to Ibak them v^^ell ; then with 
an old knife, fixed in a cleft ftick, they fcrape off the hair, whilll 
they are wet 5 the fkins being thus prepared, they put them, and 
a certain proportion of the dried brains into a kettle over a fire, 
till they are more than blood-warm, which will make thern lather 
and Icour perfedly clean 3 after which, they wring and twift each 
fikin with fmall flicks, as long as they find any water drop from 
them, and they continue in this twifted condition for fome hours j 
and then they untwift each fkin, and put them into a fort of rack, 
like a clothier's rack, confiftingoftwo poles let upright, and two 
more fet athwart, and fixed with their own barks 5 then they 
ftretch them out every way by lines 3 and as the lliin dries, with 
a dull hatchet, or a ftick flatted and brought to around edge, or 
a ftone, they rub them all over, to force out the water and greale 
out of them, till they become perfe6tly dry 5 and this is the whole 
procels- and one woman will drels eight or ten fldns in a day. 
Of the 7'hickfiefs of Gold on Gilt-Wire, and of the exceeding 
Minutenefs of its confiflent Particles 3 by Mr. i£dm. Halley. 
Phil. Tranf N° n^^r* p- 540. 
WHAT are the conftituent parts of matter, and how there 
happens to be fb great a variety in the weight of bodies, 
which, to all appearance, are equally foUd and denle, fuch as 
gold 
