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to fufped; their Truth; I muft inform you, That 

 befides that in Dr. Woodward's Colledion, I have 

 feen divers Pieces of Grey Marble, which were 

 brought from America, wherein were flender and 

 fhort Veins, as well as little Drops, of pure Gold, 

 about the fize of a large Pin's Head, which I am 

 fatisfied could never have been hid there, except 

 the Marble had adually grown round about them. 

 Nay, I make no manner of queftion, but that 

 Gold, Silver, and other Metals, and Minerals too, 

 .of all forts, do naturally grow, though we ihort- 

 lighted Mortals have no certain Criterion, where- 

 by we may difcover, how faft, or flow, fuch 

 growth is. Bifhop Burnet, in his Letters, (page 

 114.) fays, that he faw in the Cabinet of the Ca- 

 nione Settala, which was then in his Brother's 

 hands, a lump of Ore, in which there is both 

 Gold and Silver, and Emeralds and Diamonds : 

 It was brought from Peru, in South America. 



6. But to come clofer yet to the fubjedt in hand, 

 I went in the year 1722 from Burgh, in Lifzcohi- 

 Jhire, to Tar mouth, in Norfolk, the place of my 

 birth, on purpofe to vifit what was worthy of 

 Obfervation there, and particularly the large 

 Church, Chapel, Market-place, Hofpitals, Draw- 

 bridge, Haven, and Key; upon the laft of which, 

 and not far from the fine Draw-bridge, the Cor- 

 poration had, a few years before, built a very 

 handfome and commodious Houfe of Entertain- 

 ment. 



