edges blew or greenifii. Being applyed fo tfie Wound, it 
adheres to it of it felf, and falls not off, but after it hath 
fucked thePoyfon : Then they wafliit in iN.ilk. wherein *tis 
left awhile, till it return to its natural condition. It is a 
rare Stone, for if it be put thefecond time upon the Wound, 
andftickto it^ 'tis a fignithad notfuck'd all the Venorne 
during its firft application s but if it ftick nor, 'tis a mark 
that all the Poy fon was drawn out at firfr- So far our French 
Author : wherein appears no confidcrable differerxe from 
the written Relation before mentioned. 
Of the n^ay^ ufed zntheMogoVs Dominions j te 
maks Saltpetre. 
This is delivered in the fame Book of Monfieur Theve^ot^ 
snd the manner of it having been inquired after^ by feve- 
ral Curious PerfonSj to compare it with that v^^hich is ufed in 
Europe^ 'tis prefum'd^ they will not be difpieafed to findc it 
infertcd here in Englipj^ which is as followeth 
Saltpetreis found in many places of the Eaji Indies^ but 
chiefly about Agra^ and in the Villages, that heretofore ba^^e 
been numeroufly inhabitedj but are nowdeferted. They 
draw it out of three forts of Earth, blackj yellow^ and 
white : the beft, is that which is drawn out of the black, for 
it is free from common Salt. They work it in this manner : 
They make two Pits, flat at the bottom5 like thofe where- 
in common Salt is made 5 one of them having much more 
compafsthen the other, they fill ^A^^with Earth^upon vvh^ch 
they let ran Water, and by the feet of People they tread it, 
and reduce it to the confiftency of a Pap, and fo they let it 
ftandfor twodays^ that the Water may extrad all the Salt 
that isin the Earth : Then they pafs this Water into another 
Pit, in which it chriftaliizes into 5ii/fpe/re. They let it boil 
once or twice in a Ca3dron,_ according as they will have It 
whit^jr and purer. Whilft it is over tfaeFire, they fcnm it 
coDtinuallv, and fill it out into great EarihenPots, which 
P' - hold 
