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there may be, (if one may so speak) both Metallescent and Mineral- 

 escent Juyces in the bowels of the Earth, and that sometimes they 

 may there exist and operate under the forme of Spirits or Steams.^ 



" Beside this, we cannot but take notice here of what was in- 

 timated a good while ago in Numb. 32. of the Phil. Transactions, p. 

 628, viz. That Mr. Robert Hook had at that time ready some Dis- 

 courses upon this very Argument, which, by reason of the many 

 avocations he hath met with in the rebuilding of the City of Lon- 

 don, and his attendance on the R. Society, he hath not yet been able 

 quite to finish for the Press. 



" Now this being so, that several judicious Persons do employ 

 themselves in the inquiry after the Observables in the greater Parts 

 of the World, there is no question but many remarkable things will 

 be detected therein ; and, (to speak more generally on this occasion,) 

 since 'tis apparent, that the Ingenious and Diligent almost every- 

 where are entring more and more into Philosophical Leagues, for 

 the discovery of the works of God and the Operations of Nature, we 

 cannot but entertain pregnant hopes, that notwithstanding all the 

 oppositions of Lazy and Envious Men, a good harvest of consider- 

 able and useful knowledge will be reaped in time, and thence good 

 store of fruitful seed be ministred for large successive crops of the 

 same kind, for the magnifying of our great Creatour, and the Eno- 

 bling and benefiting of Man-kind." 



2. Extrait De La Dissertation de Nicolas Stenon sur les corps 

 solides qui se trouvent contenus naturellement dans d^autres corps 

 solides. In Collection Academique de Dijon, Partie Etrangere, IV, 



1757, PP- 377-414- 



3. Prodromus d^une dissertation sur le solide contenu naturellement 

 dans un autre solide ; extrait et traduit par M. Elie de Beaumont. 

 Paris, 1832. 



This translation appeared in Annales des Sciences Naturelles, 

 Paris, 1832, Vol. 25, pp. ZZI-ni- The article is entitled Fragmens 

 geologiques tires de Stenon, de Kazwini, de Strabon et du Boun- 

 Dehesch. 



Copies of Beaumont's translation may be found in the libraries 



1 "About which he also was willing not only to shew to the Publisher several Observations 

 and Collections of his in the forme of Discourses, but also to put them into his hands to 

 peruse the same." 



