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rich and beautiful a colour, that perhaps it might better have 

 been placed among the Ochres, but that mix'd with Oyl, it turned 

 darker than that they call Englifi, and much more fo than the 

 fyruce-Qchre of Shotover Forest. 



20. Befidethefe, we have another fine Earth, of a white co- 

 lour, porous and friable, infipid and without fcent, diflbluble 

 in water ; and tinging it, of a milky colour, and fom times railing 

 a kind of ebullition in it ; found frequently in theliffoms or feams 

 of the Rocks, or {licking to the hollow roofs of them : in (liort, 

 fo altogether agreeable to what Con r aciu* Gefner c (and out of him 

 Boetiws de Boot , Calceolarias, Aldrovandus, and Olau* Wormiut) 

 calls Lac Lun<e, that I could not but think it the very fame. And 

 to put all out of doubt, I tryed the Experiment of Daniel Major 

 (who wrote no lefs than a whole Treatife concerning it) and 

 found according to him, that with Lacca, though I could get 

 none good, it gave the skin fo florid a whitenefs, that 1 dare pro- 

 nounce it a good Cofmetick) and upon that very fcore have given 

 it place here. 



21. I obferved it firft near the Worcefier road, about mid-way 

 between Helton and Sir Timothy Tyrrils, where the Stones taken 

 up, for I know not what ufe, as alfo at fome places in Whately 

 field, were all in a maner covered with it. And I met with it 

 again near Hafeley, in the fields between that and little Milton^ 

 and quickly after at long Hanborough, upon ftones provided for 

 walling there : I enquired of the Quarry-men what it might be, 

 whether they had made any ufe, or obfervations of it, but all I 

 could get would amount to no more, but that it was a fign of a 

 very good Lime-ftone. 



22. Which alfo it feems is its character amongft our Neighbors 

 in Ireland, where (we are d told) the beft Lime-fione is of a gray 

 colour, and if broken, has a white duft that flies away from it. 

 But if we may believe Olam Wormiut, 'tis a fign alfo of fomthing 

 much better than that, who apprehends it to be nothing lefs than 

 a certain effect, of Metallick. vapors : Oritur, (faies he, fpeaking of 

 Lac Lun<eJ avaporibmmetallich, qui indies fub 'tiles vehunt exhaJa- 

 tiones, qudt ubi per faxa in cavitates exfudaverint, huniido evocalo, 

 quodficcum efiremanet & in medullam hanc raram, tcneram, (srfiia- 

 bilem concrefcit. e To which Daniel Major not only agrees, but 



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