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ber to have feen there, about Michaelmas, a tree 

 with ripe cherries upon it : tho' whatever the 

 country about Almerode may feem to want in this 

 refpect, is iufficiently compenfated by other ad- 

 vantages ; among which we may chiefly reckon 

 the various forts of clays found there, and called 

 fometimes crucible earth, fometimes pipe, and 

 fometimes pottery earth \ according to the various 

 ufes they are put to. The pipe- earth is moftly 

 employed by the tobacco-pipe makers of Alme- 

 rode, CafTel, and chiefly of Munden. The cru- 

 cible earth, worked at Almerode itfelf, gives, by 

 mixing amongft it a coarfe,, dry fand, thofe cru- 

 cibles and retorts, which, for their Handing the 

 fire, are famous all over the world, and with 

 which thofe of Almerode carry on a considerable 

 traffick, by fending yearly whole fhip- ladings of 

 them to Bremen, Holland, England, Dantzick, 

 Riga, and other Parts. From the pottery-earth, 

 befides the common earthen verTels, are made 

 thofe ftone-bottles, which are yearly fent in large 

 quantities to Pyrmont, there to be filled with wa- 

 ter, and conveyed thence far and near. Among 

 all the abovementioned forts of clay or earth, are 

 alfo found various kinds of fulphur-pyrites kid- 

 nejs : thofe in the white pipe- earth appear in 

 various angular forms ; and, as the clay-diggers 

 affirm, are effayed for filver and found yieldy. . Up- 

 on breaking them, they often appear white like 

 the arfenical pyrites, and as it were, of a filvery 

 caft ; are remarkably ponderous, and either do 

 not at all, or at lead it is in a very long time, 

 and, with the greater! difficulty, they crumble in 

 the air -, as I have had fome expofed for feven or 

 eight years, and in all that time, only fome fmall 

 vitriolic effiorefcences obferved on the upper fur- 

 face, 



