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ved in fpirits of wine 5 S. A. 6. Brafil wood diffolved in 
fpirits of wine. 7. An extrafl of Alcanna root, with oil of 
turpentine 5 for it cannot be difTolv'd in any other Menftruum', 
neither in Ipirits of wine, or a Liyiivium of unflacked lime as 
above 5 there is another kind of iS'^;/^///5 2)r^^o;/7i, called Z^- 
chryma, which mixt with urine ftrikes a pretty agreeable 
colour, but with difiicultyj colours mixt with urine anfwer 
bell. 
5. Colours laid on without any vehicle, are, i. Sanguis Dra- 
conis well cleaned for a red colour. 2. Gum-gutta Tor a yel- 
low. 5. Green wax for a green. 4. Sulphur, pitch and tur- 
pentine, for a brown colour j and you need only give the mar- 
ble a proper heat, and then rub on your colours, which expe- 
rience will further teach you : Thefe colours are difcharged 
with more or lefs difficulty 5 as a red colour in ^4 hours with 
oil of tartar ^tt Deliquium^ without fpoiling the polifhing; a 
brown colour in a quarter of an hour with Aquafortis^ but 
the poliJhing is fpoiled 5 for a golden colour, take flowers of 
fal-armoniac, white vitriol and verdigreafe, and grind them 
very fine. 
An Account of the Bramines in the Indies 5 by Mr. John 
Marlhal. Phil. Trapf. N"" 16^. p. 729. 
UPON what grounds fome travellers have ftiled thefe 
people polytheifls or atheifls, Mr. Marflml does not 
know 5 or whether there be any fuch people in the v/orld, ex- 
cept fome of the baler Ibrt in all nations, he much queftions s 
It is very obfervable here, that when their prieils or Bramines^ 
and holy men, whom they call Jogees^ have occafion to write 
any thing, they always put the figure of one in the firfl place, 
to fhew, as they fay, that they' acknowledge but one God, 
who, they fay, is Burme^ that is, immaterial; when they 
preach to the people, and inftrucl them, which is commonly 
every feafl-day," full moon, or the time of an eclipfe of either 
luminary, they talk much to them of God, heaven , and hell, 
but very imperfectly, obfcurely and myftically; they lay, 
that when God thought of making the world, he made it in a 
minute : They account this world the body of God ; and that 
the higheft heavens are his head, the fire his mouth, the air 
his breath and breaft, the water his feed, and the earth and 
foundations thereof, his legs and feet; yet for all that they 
hold that God is immaterial ; and aflert in general, that he is 
the life of every thins, which yet is neither greater nor lelTer 
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