APPENDIX. 



IN conclusion, you should know that 

 Antimony is used for a good 

 many purposes besides those of 

 the typographer. Under a certain 

 favourable stellar conjunction there are 

 cast from it certain characters and 

 amulets of great virtue and potency. 

 In the same way metal mirrors may be 

 prepared which possess all but magical 

 properties. There are also founded 

 from it bells of great sweetness of 

 sound, images of men, and many other 

 things besides.* But as these matters 



* Without yielding to the temptation of taking up the 

 lamentation of Basilius over the folly and carelessness of men, 

 who are so engrossed with the greed of gold that they do not 

 bestow much attention on the wonderful virtues which God 

 has implanted in created things, let me at least make the 

 following remark : Antimony is a mineral in which so won- 

 derful a spirit is hidden, that its virtues are inexhaustible, 

 and its powers transcend human knowledge. Nor do I 



