LETTER IV. in 



Germany and Italy ^ have defcribed the affair to 

 my entire fatisfadion, and one of them w^ith this 

 additional and curious circumftance, viz. That 

 there being a v^hole Sheet of this kind in one of 

 the Pope's Palaces at Rome (either in that of 

 Monte Cavallo, or the Vatican,) he With fome o- 

 ther Travellers, had with difficulty procured the 

 favour of feeing the Sheet tried ; and accordingly 

 a large pan of red-hot Charcoal was got ready, 

 and one corner of the Sheet put into it -, the Sheet 

 foon looked like red-hot Iron, and continued in 

 fo fierce a Fire for a confiderable fpace. It was 

 then taken out, and laid to cool ; and he aflured 

 me, that in half an hour's time or lefs, it return- 

 ed to the felf fame colour, and felt exadtly as it 

 did juft: before it was put in. If I miffake not, 

 there are divers pieces of this ffrange cloth in the 

 repofitory of GreJJjam : 



13. However, this I know to be faft. An in- 

 timate Acquaintance of mine at Nevis ^ one Mr. 

 Archibald Hamilton, w^ent for his health's fake to 

 Bojlon the Metropolis of New Engla7id, and at his 

 return back gave me a very particular account of 

 that flou riffling BrittiJJo Province. Among other 

 curious obfervations which he made, he told me, 

 That at the bottom of one or more Rivers there, 

 were confiderable quantities of the Stone called ^- 

 mianthos. He brought away five or fix pieces of it, 

 one of which about five ounces in weight he gave 



to 



