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2^% Id's 4. account ofafort o/Paper made o/Li* 
Bum AsheflmumfoundmWsilts znaLetter to theVub' 
liflier, from Edward LLoyd (?/ JefusCoU. Oxon. 
account of two Books. I. SpecimenVNIVEl^S^ jf{EI 
NVMMJ1{IjE ANTI^jE , Or an EflTay toward a uni- 
verfal Hiftory of ancient Coynes ^/^^/Medails, by An- 
dreas Morellius. Paris in OUavo 1(583. account 
of the reprinting of Johannes Goedartius DE INSEC- 
TiSi cum Appendice ad HIST01{IAM ANIMALIVM 
ANGLIjE, by Martin Lifter MD. andF. S. 
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An ExtraSi of a Letter from the Reverend and learned 
Dr. John Wallis ^ to the Publisher Dr. Robert 
Plot ; concerning two very large Stone Chimney- 
pieces : with a peculiar fort of Arch- work thereon. 
HAving been lately at Edgecot in Northafuptonlhire^ 
at the houfe o£ Tobias Chancey Efq; he fhewed me 
io an ancient Kitchin (now difufed ) two Chimney's, 
. vaftly large , of Stone-work. Which I took the more 
notice of, becaufe of a peculiar way of Arch- work in the 
Front of them j whereby, without the advantage of a Dif- 
charger of Timber ( which is ufual, in fuch cafes, to de- 
fend the Arch* work from being over burdened, J an 
Arch ofmaffy Stone ("in each of them ^ fuftains it lelf, 
at a great length, though almott upon aflat, ("being 
very little raifed in the middle.) Which, becaufe it feem- 
ed to me fomewhat extraordinary, I caufed a draught, 
of one of them, to be defigned j as in the paper here ad- 
joined. In which, the lower Arch-work (very little 
raifed from aflat) is made of great Stones, fo locked 
into one another, as appears in the Figure : that there 
might be the lefs danger of any one dropping out (or 
being forced down ) to the deftrudiion of the whole. 
Pver which ( after fome walling interpofed) there is 
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