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yet are far from pronouncing any thing pofitively againfliV,^ 
fo that they doe not difcourage any that have eonvenien- 
cies 5 from trying. 
But whether the way there mentioned will fucceed 5 or 
not, according to expcftation: Sure it is that a Stone- cutter 
in Oxford^ Mr« Bird , hath many years fioce found out a way 
of doiog the fame things in efFeft , that is here mentioned j 
and hath pradifed it for many years. Thatis^ heisablcfo 
to apply a colour to the oucfide of poliilied Marbl€3as that it 
ftialliink a confiderabk depth into the body of the ftones 
and there reprefent iike figures or images as thofe are on 
the out fides ( deepsr or (hallowcr according as he continues 
the application 5 a longer ^ or lefier while. ) Of which kind 
there be divers pieces to be feen in Oxfird^ London^ and elfe«* 
where . And fome of them being fliewed to his Majefty , 
foon after his happy reftsuration , they were broken in his 
prefence, and found to anfwer expeftation. And others may 
be dayly feen^ by any who is curlousi or dcfiraus to fee it. 
An Intimation of a Way , found in Europe to make 
China»di(heso 
Notice was lately given by an inquifitiveP^ri^^^ to a friend 
of his in X^^W^j^ 3 that by an Acquaintance he had been in- 
formed ^ that Signor Sept alio ^ a Canon in Millan^ had the 
Secret crfmaking as good Torcelam as is made in China it felf^ 
and tranfpatent s adding that he had feen him make fome. 
This as it deferves ^ fo it will be further inquired after ^ 
if God permit. 
An Account of an oddSfxitigin Weftphalia, together 
with an 'Information touching Salt-Springs and 
I the flraining of f alt-water. 
An obferving Gentleman did lately write out Germany^ 
that in Weftphalia in the Diocefs of Paderhom , is a Spring , 
which loofes it felf twice in 24 houres ; coming always* after 
6 houresg back again with a great noife , and fo forcibly, as 
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