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March laft, there fell an unufual fort. of. Jawa^ which I confi- 
dered with more than ordinary attention. It had none of the 
ordinary figures, but was made up of little Pillars, whereof 
fome were Tetragonal, fome Hexagonal^ with an neat bafts. On 
the top they were fomewhat larger, as the heads of Columnes 
are. Confidering the whole fbape, we thought fit to give it 
the name of XixColnmnaris. 
An Extract of a Letter lately mitten by an obferving ferfon 
to a Friend of the Publilher, concerning the vertue of 
Antimony. 
ITryed that a Boare,to whom I had given an ounce of crude An- 
timony at a time, putting him into the Sty, would be fat a fort- 
night before another, having no Antimony, upon the like feed- 
ing. Antimony will recover a Pig of the Meafles 5 by which it 
appears to be a great purifyer of the Blood. I knew a Horfe 5 that 
was very lean and fcabbid, and could not be fatted by any keep- 
ing, to whom Antimony was given for two MonethS together 
every morning, and that upon the fame keeping he became ex- 
ceeding fat. One of my own Horfes having had the fafhions, 
and being cured, had notvvithftanding extream running leggs 5 fo 
that after he had paffed thecourfeof Farryers twice.to be cured, 
it was not done 5 but upon my giving him Antimony but one 
week, he was prefently healed. 
The manner of ufing it, is this. Take one drachme of crude 
Antimony powdefd for one Horfe, and when you give him his 
Oats in a morning, (hake it out upon his Oats in a little heap in 
the middle; If he be hungry , and you keep off his head from 
every other part of the Oats, he will fnap it up in his mouth at 
one bite, when you let him goe. Some Horfes greatly like it, 
others refufe it after the firft. If he refufe it, cover it with Oats 
thinly 5 its done : or make it in Balls. 
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