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A Letter of the Honorable Robert Boyle ofSept.i^.Uy^. to tie 
Publijher^ concerning Amber Greece, and its being a Vege- 
table Frodu&ion, 
S I R, 
SOmc occafioDS calling me this afternoon up to London^ I 
met there with a very lotclligeat Geotkmao, who was 
ready to go out of it ^ but before he did fo,he willingly fpar d 
me Tome time todifcourfe with him about fome of the Affairs 
of our Eaft-Iadian Compaoy , of which he was very lately 
Deputy Governour; aDdjbii year being expired, is ftill one of 
the chief of the Court of Committeesj which a forreigner 
would call Direftors that manage ah^ rhe affairs of that coofi- 
derabk Society. And amorg other things talking with him 
about fome Contents of a journal lately taken in a Dutch Eaft- 
Indian prize^l learm from him, that hej who utiderftands that 
language very well3is tiOw perufiagthat Manufcript, arfrl, a» 
mongmaoy things recorded ths^re chac concern the Ofcoqo- 
mical and Political affairs of the faid Dutch conopanyg he met 
with one FAj/j^^^/Obfervation which he thought fo rare, that 
remcmbricig the curiofity 1 had expreft for fuch things, he put 
it into Eoglifhaand tranfcrib'd it for me,and immediatly draw- 
ing it out of his pocket he prefented me the fhort paper, where- 
of I now (hew you the Copy : Upon perufal of which, you 
will very eafily believe, that not only his Civility oblig'd me, 
but the Information it brought me furprizM mc too. For^the 
feveral tryals and obftrvations of my own about Amber Greece 
have long kept me from acquiefcing either in the vulgar opi* 
nionSjOr thofe of fome Learned men concerning it 3 yet I con- 
fcfi^my Experiments did much lefs difcover what it is^than this 
paperhasdone^incafe wemayfafely and intirely give credit 
to its Information, and that it reach to all kinds of Amber- 
greece* And probably you will be invited to look on this 
accountjthough not as coropleatgyet as very fincere^and on that 
fcore Credible, if you confiderj that this was not written by a 
Philofopher to broach a Paradox fit ferve an Hypotbep^hm by 
a Merchant or Faftor for his Superiors, to give^ them an ac* 
count of a matter of faft i and that this pafTage is extant in an 
authentick JournaLv\fhcxdQ the affairs of the Company were 
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