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of Plants, only that it has been found molt agreeable that Sancl- 

 foin, Ray-grafs,istc. benotfown prefently after the Early, Oats-, 

 or whatever other Grain it be fowed with, but rather after the 

 Corn is come pretty high, fo that it may (belter the feed horn the 

 heat of the Sun, which, as is apprehended at leaft, is fomtimes 

 prejudicial. And that in the Chiltern Country, after they have 

 eaten oft their Ray-grafs or Sancl-join, they find it advantagious 

 to fold it with Sheep, as other Corn-lands : which I thought good 

 to note, it being, as I am informed, but lately practifed. 



84. Amongft Arts that concern formation of Earths, I (hall 

 not mention the making of Pets at Marjh-Balden, and Nuneham- 

 Courtney ; nor of Tobacco-pipes of the White-earth of S 'hot- over , 

 fince thofe places are now deferted. Nor indeed was there, that 

 I ever heard of, any thing extraordinary performed during the 

 working thofe Earths, nor is there now of a very good Tobacco- 

 pipe Clay found in the Parifti ofHorfpath, fince the Printing of the 

 third Chapter of this Hifiory. Let it fuffice for things of this 

 nature, that the ingenious John Dwight, M. A. of ' Chrift Church 

 College Oxon. hath difcovered the myjlery of the ftone or Co- 

 logne Wares (fuch as D" Alva Bottles, Jugs, Noggins) heretofore 

 made only in Germany, and by the Dutch brought over into En- 

 gland in great quantities, and hath fet up a manufacture of the 

 fame, which (by methods and contrivances of his own, altogether 

 unlike thofe ufed by the Germans) in three or four years time he 

 hath brought it to a greater perfection than it has attained where 

 it hath been ufed for many Ages, infomuch that the Company of 

 Glafs-fellers, London, who are the dealers for that commodity, have 

 contracted with the Inventor to buy only of his Englifh manufa- 

 cture, and refufe the foreign. 



85. He hath difcovered alfo the myffery of the Heffian wares, 

 and makes Veffels for reteining the penetrating Salts and Spirits 

 of the Chymifts, more (erviceable than were ever made in England, 

 or imported from Germany it felf. 



86. And hath found out ways to make an Earth white and 

 tran fpa rent as Porcellane, and not diftinguiftiable from it by the 

 Eye, or by Experiments that have been purpofely made to try 

 wherein they difagree. To this Earth he hath added the colours 

 that are ufual in the colour'd China-ware, and divers others not 

 feen before. The (kill that hath been wanting to fet up a manufa- 

 cture 



