&iMjf^i%m^ Idtre teW^yfay,, there was mr^t znf 
fuck thiMg in mmiMm ^ Notwimltaadiug what Mifmpkm/^ 
tells BiSQ-f relating to St* Gmrgi ths^ Migak-MMr^ 
tm^ Fmtwm^l^B^gUp i who being condemned to be 
wr;s^ by his wicked ^^i^cM^w, that hadfeen maay mi* 
racles cfoEe ia tb@ umm^- of Clr-?^» fearing the virtue of 
that laight extingiiilh the mmmm /r^^ Ashtp§ Imfii^ 
SmiMmm #lr^e«^#, €0¥er*d him a!l over with Asbejim- 
ftones which they riioaght could ne?er be extinguifh't*,. 
Fori giiefi with MMmSis it was nothing e!fe but Cal% 
viva^s ot mnJhJ^d Lime^ which kept dry will indeed re- 
tain its fiery particles for a long feafoii ; or elfe fome 
fuchftoiie zsthcJfyBQsoi Pliny which once heated will 
hold fo for a week ; like the IRnggiolds of Spain (which 
are broad plates, like dies, cut out of a Mouiitain of red 
^AtMQ^xO^rdond) that being heated on both fides will 
keep warna for a whole natural day ^ » or our Cornijh 
warming ftone which will hold heat for 8 or lo hours j 
All, or any of which, /^^r Synecdochen partis^ may in fome 
fenfe be call'd Asbejtos well enough. Yet Ifcdore and 
Maiolus both tell us of a Lamp that hung fomewhcre in 
zTempleoil^enus, that had a wiekofluch Asheftos^ that 
no tempeft either of wind or water could poffibly extin- 
guifli * ; and we are told that the Lamp found in the tomb 
Pallas the Arcadian flain by Turms in the Troja?t War, 
was of this kind, it remaining burning after it was taken 
forth, notwithftandingeither 2P/Wor2i?^f^^r, with which 
fome did endeavour to quench it * . Which Hijhries muft 
either be falfe, or the Lamps muft h^^cWieks of fome 
different kind of ^j^^y/(?j from ours i which is eafily ^.v- 
tinguijht i and from a pungent quality Agricola fays it has 
on the tongue without ajtringency, is otherwife call'd 
\Alumen^y having the dittinguiftiing Epithet [^plumeuml 
»* Sim. Mera phraftes in Encomio Sti. Georgiiapud Lipoinan, T»m. 7, in Apr. ij. w Bollan- 
ous in afta sanaoium. Apr. 2,. x C.Pliniii^'. Nat. Hift. Lib. 37. cap. 10 .r Fr. willugh- 
W s Voyage through Spain, p. 471. !^ Ifidor. Epifc. Hifpal. Orig. Lib. 16. cap. 4. Sc Sim. Maio- 
licoUoq. Phyf. admirand. colloq. ig. a Fortun. Liccti. de Lucern. Lib. cap. n. b Geo. Agri- 
, WU de Nature Foffihura Lib. j, 
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