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An instrument to clean the combs, of three teeth. Nux vomica. Bamboo 

 stone. 



Books of China leaf gold, the leaves of some of which are an inch and 

 half square, others four inches : the paper of the ordinary China sort, probably 

 made of silk or cotton : the Chinese gild paper on one side with this leaf gold, 

 then cut it in long pieces, and weave it into their silks, which makes them, 

 with little or no cost, look very rich and fine. The same long pieces are 

 twisted or turned about silk thread by them, so artificially, as to look finer 

 than gold thread, though it be of no great value. — A sheet of brown paper 

 from China. This sort of brown paper, which is smooth and thin, is made 

 use of instead of linen cloth or rags, to spread ointments on, in the hospitals 

 in Paris. — ^Two steel instruments for polishing razors, each of them crooked 

 and two inches long. 



Semen phaseoli zurattensis, or cowage. Rail Hist. Plant, used for curing 

 dropsies. — A great black scararbaeus, a scarlet butterfly, an ash-coloured Capri- 

 corn, a locust, and a phalaena, all to pieces. — An Indian hone, a blackish 

 colour. A China hone like ours. An Indian hone, to be used after the stone, 

 to smooth the points of lancets, &c. this is made of a kind of white wood, as 

 light as touchwood. — A painter's brush, made of the stalk of a plant, the fibres 

 of which, at both ends, being fretted asunder and tied together again, serve 

 for a brush. — A box of several kinds of China ink, with characters on them, 



O/" Coal- Borings, communicated by Dr. Martin Lister : which he received from 

 Mr. Maleverer, of Arncliffe in Yorkshire. N° 230, p. 73. 



Thomas Waike bored for coal at Mauston near Leeds, in the grounds here- 

 after named. May the -ZOth, 1639. 



In the Rye-Close, or upper pig hill. 



Ft. Inc. Ft. Inc. 



In earth 3 O Iron stone O 6 



Yellow clay 3 A cowshot coloured stone, with 



Blue ramel 3 O many iron girdles in it 28 6 



Black slate 9 Black stone 7 Q 



Grey metal stone 7 (5 A mouse-coloured stone 3 O 



Black metal 1 6 Black metals 9 



Grey stone 6 Grey stone 6 9 



A whinstone O 9 A cowshot coloured stone with 



Grey metal 1 6 many iron girdles in it .... 24 



A whinstone 1 O A grey metal 1 6 



Grey metal 1 O Coal 1 O 



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