^nAjkmiiT^ jet Teiy p^mi^rms^ tielmallefl: partides of 
them tliroiigliiy wet^ fiiakiiQg in wmter j as I aJio found a 
very ffleuder tlinamm ©f InmmlmfiiMt JLmmn gii^ca 
me by Mr, ^^il^^, wMda Mr, , Wmu brongiat from M£m, 
woialci alfo doe : which readers k very probable tJiac it 
iag the iait]>rMatioiiis of ikm& mid ^^my-^mur S(ui:i^adatm 
mention din Mr. Wkkit Ixtter, ilay;, i«iadcis ic pro- 
baHe^ tlhei^teiag federal- w^^^ds^ iadi -^Bw^ r^-mmd^ 
J^eiQ^^ijTOt^ ^'&c. tlat Will liiak ia wate>r,. 
oar LsUm islilemt^biit Mmtmf. Fundus fmetus very Indci- 
ilf fopplyes tWs defeft, acquainting us in his book dt 
IS^^onihus Orientaliius^ how, it is m^dc inTartnry it 
felf: where he fays it is found in a certain mountain in 
the province of CJmchinthalas^ and made into cloth^ as 
he was inform'd by one Curficar a T^^r;^ who was Superin- 
tendent of the MrW/ in that f-o^/^^ry, after this manner. 
The Lanuginous mineral or Amianthus being firft dryed in 
the Sun^ is next pounded in a brafs mortar ^ and the 
earthy part Separated from the wQally^ which is afterward 
wajht from alt filth whatever that may yet ftick to it, 
and fo, being thus purged, is then fpun into thred Hke Or 
ther rtQol^ and after wove into cloth : which if foul or 
fpotted, they cleanfe, he fays, by throwing it into the fire 
for an hours time, whence it will come forth unhurt, as 
white as Show ^ . Which very Method (as Straho pr^ 
fcribes it) feems alfo to have been ufed in ordering the 
Cretan Amiantns^ only with this addition, that after it 
was pounded, and the earthy part fliQok f rom the voooly^ 
he fays 'twas cfimVd^ and fo does A^ricola, which argues 
there wasfome ofa greater length than any I have yet 
feen*: what the might be I cannot telU but the 
^/na;?! amfure is^fliortenough, fo is the Wel/h, and io 
«Philoroph. Tnnfaft. Numb. 165). w Mar, Pauli Vereti de Rfgionibus Orienralibus 
^ib J., cap. 4.7, ;t Surabonijrer.Gcograpl). Libt-io-Sc Ceo. AgricoI«dc Nat. Foflil. Lib. f . 
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