Mr. Fr. Willughby to Mr. Wray. 1 1 



Mules for about five Piftoles apiece, and fet forwards 

 to Perplntan^ Colliver and Capo de Creux. Between 

 Colliver and Capo de Creux we pafled the Frontiers 

 without any danger, fearching, or trouble at all, on- 

 ly at the expence of an Efcus for a Guide. At Capo 

 de Creux is the principal Place for the Coral Fifhing, 

 and tho' the Wind hundred us from feeing the Fifh- 

 ing, I faw the Inftruments, and underftood as much 

 about it as if I had feen it taken out of the Sea. 

 Thence to Vift? where there is a Mine of Amethifts, 

 which they call Violet Stones $ by what I faw there, 

 and learned afterwards, I make no queftion but Dia- 

 monds, Rubies, Iacinths, and almoft all Precious 

 Stones, grow juft in the fame manner as the Brifiol 

 Diamonds, Hexangular and Pointed, excepting Agate 

 and Corneole, which may be reckoned among Peb- 

 bles. Thence to Cardona, where there is a Moun- 

 tain of Sal FoJJitis\ which ferves all the Countrey 

 thereabouts ^ the beft is hard and tranfparent like 

 Cryftal, fo as they make Beads of it, and fell them 

 very cheap at the Town. About the Mountain fome 

 Sea Plants. And now I would advife you by all means 

 % to make a little Tour in Spain, and fee the Oleum Pe- 

 trol, the Coral, the Amethyfts, and the Salt Moun- 

 tain 5 but to go no farther than Cat -dona , unlefs you 

 refolve upon the Canary Voyage, or have a mind to 

 an Andalufian Whore : But from Cardona to Xvefca, 

 a great Town between Saragofaznd Tholoufe, where 

 I heard Seignor La Stannofa has a very famous Mu- 

 fceuwt y the Bookfeller that told me of it, faid it would 

 take up feveral Days to fee all the Rarities : But ve- 

 ry likely it is much lefler than the Fame. From Xvefca 

 to Tholoufe, where they fay there is a Cave that har- 

 dens Bodies into a Mummy. In this Journey before 

 you come to Vict, as I remember, you will pafs by 

 Aulot y where in divers Caves there is jpiraculums of 

 Air, caufed, as they imagine there, by the falling of 

 Water. From Cardona I went to Porto fa , where I 



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