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Some ohjervathns 
Cmmunicated hj Signior Manfredus Sepcalius fi'{)m Milaih concern'^ 
i;?!^ Quick filver found at the roots ef PUnts^ andshels f$md u^on 
\xi-\m<iM(iuntdns, 
This Italian VlrtuofQ, famous for his knowledge and curiofity, 
as well as for his Hofpirality to ingenious ftrartgcrs^ did in a late Let- 
ter of his to the Publirner, impart the following Particulars, 
1. In the Valley oiLancj ^ which runs between the Mountains * 
ofTurhj grews a Plant like the DorGnkum, (foalfo called by the 
Inhabitants and Botanifts 5 ) near the roots whereof you may find 
pure Quickfilver, running; in fmal! grains like Pearls*, the juice of 
which Plant being expreffed, and expofed to ^ -p, . " , . 
, c t ^ • r 1 Ml 1 r J ^ This may be compared 
the Air of a clear night, there will be found ^^J^ K^htlom , 
as much Mercury^ as there is loft of Juice. ^ whfch acq -laint uf, tbac 
in CMoravia^ Hnngary^ Pirt4^ and oth^r parts 5 Mineral J.i'ces concreted are 
found tolbck co the roots of Herbs and Tree?, fome of thofe Juices tinging 
alfo the Leaves of Vegetables. 
2. In a Voyage he made a few years fince to Genoa, when he was 
to pafsfome mountains, he met with fome Peafants, who digging 
on the fides of an Hill, had found and gathered very many Cockle- 
Jhels of divers kinds ; which he wondring at, flopped his intended 
Journey, and went to the very place, where he was fatisfied of the 
truth of the relation, finding great ftore of different fhells, as the 
TurbinttSy Echini^ and fome Pearl" fhells, whereof one had a fair 
Pearl in it, which, he faith, he put into his Repfiterp 
Obfervations Adade by a Curiom and Learned 
^erjon^ f filing from England^ to the 
Caribe-Iflands, 
fbefe ohftrvHiensfhall be fetdewnin the Authors ewn words ^ its th&y 
were ebtained from him by Sir R. Moray ; 
I Took notice at Dealy whence I fet fail for 5^4«;4/V4, of the great 
difference in the ruling of Irort^ in fuch houfes, as front the Sea, 
in comparifon of that effe& in the Street immediately placed behind 
Ccc 3 that 
