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6( thence to Sanfon in Afturia, where we took fhip, 

 " and failed for France. On the voyage he explained 

 <c to me nearly all the figures, and found in each point 

 " a myftery, which appeared to me very curious. At 

 " Bourdeaux we landed : but, on our coming to 

 <c Orleans, this learned man fell dangeroully ill. He 

 (< was feized with a continued vomiting, which had 

 " never left him finc6 we came from on board of fhip. 

 €C During his licknefs he called me to him every mo- 

 " ment, that I might not purfue my journey alone. 

 " At lafl: he died on the feventh day, at which I was 

 €C very much afflicted. I caufed him to be buried 

 " in the church of the holy crofs, at Orleans. God 

 cc comfort his foul ! he died like a good chriftian. In 

 " the year 1379. I returned to Paris. The joy of my 

 iC wife Perenelle, at my happy return, and our prayer 

 (C to St. James is not to be conceived. I laboured di- 

 <c ligently, and found what I fought ; fo that at length, 

 " in the prefence of my wife, on Monday, the 17th. 

 " of January, in the year 138a, about noon, I turn- 

 iC ed half a pound of quick-lilver into pure filver, 



and on the 25 th. of April, in the fame year, I turn- 

 " ed, in the prefence of my wife, at about five o'clock 

 16 in the afternoon, the fame quantity of quickfilver 

 " into gold, Perenelle was fo extravagantly rejoiced 

 " at this, that I was forely afraid fhe might babble out 

 " the fecret ; but by the goodnefs of the great God, I 



have got not only a chafte and fenfible wife, but fhe 

 " is likewife referved and difcreet, which other wives 

 " are not." 



Flamel hereupon founded fourteen hofpitals, built, 

 at his own expence three new churches, and endowed 



& 3 with 



