To the 82, 3>c. Once melting is enough. The good melts 
beft, and the beft } firft. There is fometimes half odds in the 
goodnefs. The beft is diftinguiOit by its weight. 
To the 88, 89. There is a flight in the fmoak, fvhich falling 
upon the Grafs, poyfons thofe Cattel that eat of it. They find 
the tafteof it upon their lips to be fweet, vvheq, the fmoak chan- 
ces to fly in their Faces. Brought home, and laid in their hou- 
fes, it kills Rats and Mice. If this flight mix with the Water , 
in which the Oar is wafhft, and be carried away into a ftreame^ it 
hath poifoned fuch Cattel,as have drunk of it after a current of 
3 Miles. What of this flight falls upon the fand, they gather up 
to melt in a Flagg-hearth , and make Shot and Sheet-lead 
of it. 
To the 90. They fometimes find SUggs , 3,4, or 5 foot 
under ground , but fuch as they judge caft afide hereto- 
fore. 
The Promijcuous Inquiries, annexed in the Numb. 19 , are 
moftof them fatisfied in the former Anfwers, 
But as to the Mineral Lams of MendipJ am promifed an 
Account of them , which I fliall tranfmit to you ; as foon as 
I have received it. 
Concerning fubterraneous Demons, they have never feen any, 
but fometimes have heard knockings beyond their own 
Works, which, when follow'd by them, have afforded plenty of 
Ore. 
About 2 years fince, one Kingoi Wells in his Groove found a 
piece of Ore , in which they fancied the fhape of a Man, Eyes, 
Armes, Leggs, full Breaft : The whole was about 4 inches in 
length 5 the Mine proved rich. 
An Extraff of a Letter. 
Written from Franckfurt in the Oder by the learned Profejfcr 
Johannes Chriftophorus Beckman to the Publifher, concerning 
Ofteocolla, and fome other ohjervahles in thofe farts $ Eng- 
liflied out of the High- Dutch, as follows. 
Sir, the Converfation with feveral worthy Members of the 
JR. Society y I had the honor to be admitted to, when I was 
in England, as it then awakned me, and begot in me a resolution., 
better 
