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from Gold : An abfolute impoffibility ! For the 

 foftell Fire would by its continuation foon de- 

 ftroy the hardeft Stone, and the pureft Metal. It 

 is well known, that the ancient Romans did fu- 

 perflitioufly put into their Urns and Tombs, not 

 only little Metallick Veffels and Glafs Vials 

 which were termed Lachrymatories, but alfo Se- 

 pulchral Lamps that were lighted and left there : 

 Now, whatever ftrange notions vulgar Heads 

 might conceive about them ; furely the wifer Pa- 

 gans could not fuppofe. That either the Wick or 

 Oyl would laft for ever, becaufe every thing that 

 burns muft of courfe wafte. 



I ihall conclude my long Letter with telling 

 you, That when Mr. Hamilton was in New 

 England^ (i.e. in 17 17. or thereabouts) it was 

 currently reported, and univerfally believed, that 

 the Perfon who cut off King Charles the Firft's 

 Head, died there then, he owning it upon his 

 Death-bed, but not before, 



/ amy dear Sir^ Tour's, 



w. s. 



p. S. If any one doubts the Truth of Dr. San- 

 gemfo's Letter, and cannot believe that Mufick 

 can fo raife and move the Spirits of Man -, let 

 him confider i Samuel xvi. 23, viz. When the 



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