j4 port Difcription of the Simple Colours Jpecified 
in this Table. 
loQ^Pmijb White m^L^Ji oi Chalk and Atumn burnt toge- 
]^ ther. 
2. I take the Lapis Armenim to be the blew Bice fold ia 
the Shops, for it is hght and friable ; formerly brought out 
0? Armenia^ now from the Silver Miaes of Germany^ called 
Melochites^ in high Dutch BerghUrv. 
J. 1>//^'/r;5>?^r/W is made of the blcwcft lapis Lazuli^ which 
isfieeftfrom Gold-veins, by Calcination; t'e method of 
preparing it being too large for this place, may be feen in 
Dodor Merreis ingenious Notes upon Nerts Art of Glafi, 
Uh, 7. 
4. ?>i?7alt is made of Xjffer and Pot-ajbes, calcined toge- 
ther in a Glafs-furnace. Dr. Merret ib. 
5. Litmafcy or Lit?mfe^ I fuppole the Juice of a Plant. 
6. /;^^/^i?faid by Pliny to be brought from India: a kind 
of Mud adhering to the Froath about Reeds, and that when 
tryed with a Coil, the true burns with a Purple-flame, and 
fmelis of the Sea : Linfchoten fays, it is called Anil^ that it 
grows in C^w: 4/^, and is a Plant like Kofemary ^ whicii is 
gathered and dryed, then wetted with fair Water, and 
beaten to a Mud ; this Operation being repeated, it is dry- 
ed and fitted for ufe, cap.6(), 
7. Indian Ink, its Ufe known to Plinyy tho' not its Compo- 
fition ; whkh is yet undifcovered, except it fhould be burnt 
Riccj as hath been thought. 
Vi^, So a^ucii for thejB/rw at the Head of our Td/e \ the Tel- 
loivs and Kcds made ale of, are thefe that follow. 
I, Ceriifc is the Rufl of Led made by a vaporous Calci- 
nation ; Plniy v/rites thus of it in the ^i^.lib.cap. 18. Cerufe^ 
or Pfmythimj is made in the Plummers Shops; of fmall 
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