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burled for many Ages but it cannot be 

 iuppofed they were really burning from 

 the Time they were there depofited till 

 they were found, as it is well known Fire 

 is foon extinguiflied by the Want of Air ; 

 and if it has Air, the Fuel that fupplies it 

 muft wafte and decreafe in Quantity, be 

 it of what Nature it will : The moil rea~ 

 fonabie Conjedure, therefore, is, that the 

 RuHi, Cotton, or Wick of thefe Lamps, 

 was impregnated with a Kind of Phofpho- 

 rus that would take Fire as foon as the 

 Air had Liberty to operate on it. Some, 

 who maintain they were conftantly burn- 

 ing, conje(5lure, that the Wick was made 

 of the Filaments of iVfbeftos, which Fire 

 eould not confume *, and that the Oil or 

 Matter which fupplied it was of fuch a 

 Nature, as that a trifling Quantity of it 

 would laft an Age. 



We find here feveral (OJfuaria) fquare 

 Urns, with Covers, and Infcriptions on 

 them. 



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