\Londonyi^Oxford.So that itfeems to have been known iii all 
jage^^ . all defcribing it after the fk mie mariner, as a th'i hg 
- fo infaperableby^r^, that it anly (C^/^^w/e/^ahd makes it 
Jbetcer. - ' ■ 
It being clear then beyond controverfy, that there 
always was, and now is fuch incombujHbh'Lfnneii itea'rt- 
not but be#orchi while to Co'flfidet'lt hiciely^ a^d iti^ its 
fall extent, which I ihall doe fifft In gi^ih^' fd^^ 
j^Orunt of the notation ot the iV^ w^i of the lamginous mK 
neral of which 'tis made, and the plates w^itr^ fount!. 
. 2 . oiits natural p rind pies, 3^ of iKcma riufa Sure ^ of i t i d- 
to thread cloth ^^c. 4. of the Variety of /.j/'^/ it has bce.h 
put to. and of the rs^fon vfl^fincombujiibk. 'And cjf 
all thefe with as much brevity, as perfpicuity will admit 
of. Firft then as to the notation of its Names whereof ft 
has many, taken from its colour^ texture, and 
where f oiind j- It is called firft (from its ftrangc 
qualities) {omQt\viiQ% Ami antus, quodini^nem injefius non 
4MaIv?7Vj, thc/r^ being fo far ivomdefleing it, that it ra- 
ther gives it a luftre. 2. It is call'd Asbejios. and 3. «5*^2;/^- 
mandra^ in Bnglifh Salamanders wo-al; I fuppofe from 
the thryallides or Candl^^TFie^i^iid to be anciently made 
of it, which being put into /.«^72^/ of fuch tncenfumabte 
ejly as is mention din th^ Letter, would never waft, or 
goeout; which I take to be the true reafonot the inipo- 
jficion of thefe N^^^j" upon it, whether there ever were 
any ixxchLamps or noe. For as for the ftone Asbejios pr 
jdpfyBos mention dihj Solinus \ If odor e \ Salrrmjius and 
Jslaiolus^ , found in Arcadia of an Iron-colour, \^hich the)" 
all fay if once heated, can never be extin^uijht ot cooUd 
agaiui it muft be a quite different thing from ours, th^h 
Twhich nothing is ot ciiokd fooner. Nay to 
far is it from beijig th^ iAg^.e. with ou Asbejios, that 
<f Julii SoHni Polyhift. Cap. li- r lfodorE|)ir9. HrfpaL -Orrg. Tib. T<f. t^sp. 4. /*CI SsJ- 
mafii'Exerciut. pliiuija C.Jul. SrQliiiiPoJjfhiil. f^m, Colioq. Fhyf. admirand. Cofl- 
loq. iS.SCiX. 
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