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ing it-Again, was found to have loft one dram, grains. 
Dec. i.lsit. Arthur Bayly, one oitht Fellorvs of the 7(. 
Society, ^x^knttA. them with a piece of this Linnen in the 
name of Mr. Waite. At the fame time, the fame Mr. 
jg^j//y prelented. Z)r. f/o^ with another piece of it, which 
being brought to Oxford the Experimejit was again re- 
peated on it (D^r. it being put into a ftrong Char- 
coal fire \x\ t\\Q Natural Hiftory School^ in a full meeting 
of the Philofephical Society of t\\^tV niverfity 5 where after 
it had continued red hot ior fome confiderable time, it 
was taken forth again little altered when cold, faving 
that it feemed a little whiter 2^ cleaner than before it 
was put in y as appears upon the "journal of that Society. 
Concerning which, Br, P/o^, being defired to offer his 
thoughts, drew up the following Difcours, which was read 
before the hid Society , Jufie the zS*^ An, \6%f . 
A \S\^c&<xi{t conctrningthe\nzov[h\x^^ Cloth a- 
bove mentioned ; Addrefst in ^ Letter to Mr. Ar- 
tlior Bayly Merchant, and^tWow oftkeR. Socie- 
ty ; and to Mr- Nicholas Waite, Merchant of Lon- 
don ; Rob. Plot. LL' 
Worthy Gentlemen. 
H E Hiftorical account of the incomhuflible Linnen 
Cloth above mention d, being fent me by the one of 
You i and a noble prelent made me of part of it by the 
®ther s with adefirefrom both, that I would fearch the old 
Authors and fee how agreeable their relations are to this ; 
give you Both a juft right to the following Diicourle ; 
which I defire you would believe 1 addrefs to you, not fo 
much out of Complement^ as ixxxQ gratitude for fo valuable 
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