vault) makes the voice of the Adors to be undcrftood to the ve- 
ly end of the 1 heater. They love Hunting^and Gaming, as Dice, 
Cards, Chtk&c. At all times of the day ^ and in all their vi* 
fics they take Thea and Tobacco. 
I p r hei^ Language is altogether diflferent from the Chine fe j 
but theirPriefts, and Conrtifans, that is, the Learn'd among 
them;) which bear' the Offices of the Court, uaderliand the 
tongue of Chochin-thina ^ and by this means that of 7unquin^ 
china , Cored &c. They write neither from the right to the 
left, nor from the left to the right , but downeward. 
20. Their Government is Defpotique 5 the Religion Pagan - 
ihe Chriftian hated upon no other accompt , but thatfomeof 
ihofe , that there profefied it 5 - would perfwade the ^afonefe to 
acknowledg a Superiority above the dignity Royall, difpofing 
of Crowns and Scepters. Their Morals are very good, their 
faults being punifh't as their Crimes , even Lying and Detradion, 
Their left hand is the more honourable^, and they takehorfeoa 
thatfide^ 
An Accomt from Paris 
€omtrning a great MetallinBmning Concave ^ and feme oftfk 
moft confiderahk Effe£ts of n : Communicated hy [everaU 
prfons upn the flace ^ where Try a Is have been made of 
i.K ' ■ • ' 
IT is true, that Monfieur de Vilette of Xy^?;;^^ who for- 
merly made that Burning Concave, * which was of about 30,, 
inches diameter (difpofed of to^the King 
D^crihed M large in Numb, oi Denmark^hzth made another, which 
€. of tkeic rMmm, j^^g^^ ^ ^^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^l^ 
of 34, inches diameter , and melts all forts of Mettals, and l- 
roaitfelf of the thicknefs of a. S ilver- Crown , in lefs then^ 
a minute of time ^ and vitrifies Brick in the fame time • 
and as for Wood , whether green or dry , it fees it on fire in a 
moment. The. King hath feen it and the performances ot it wi!vli 
great fat isfaiaion,^ and his Majefty is liJ^ely to make it his, and. 
and then to beftow it on his Royal Academy of Philofophers , 
fcr making of fartlie^ Experiments with it.. SofMihey-. 
