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d^rgoes the violence of the/r^ i yet this liinders not but 
it may, and will, doe that Service divers times, before ift 
be renderd altogether ufelefs, Cc^lius Calcagnanus 
that fome of the ^m^w^j made them r/o^/^j of it'' j with 
whom agrees Turnehus 'nx h\s Commentary upon Varro^ $ 
and Ccelius ^odiginus tells us indefinitly that the Indians 
did make them G^^r;^^;^^/ of it^ ; but Hierocles reftrains 
it to the Brachmans only . The Wiel^ for the Perpetual 
Lamps ot the Ancients were ^\[om2i^Qoitk's^ as the fame 
further acquaints US; ule Wiek^oi the golden 
Lamp of Callimachus that hung in Acropoli being made 
, ('as he i2iYs)eLino CarpaJiQ^ of which the fice had no 
power 'Tine Emperor Conflantin alfo, as Damafus in- 
forms us, appointed a /^2>;^to be made of this tncomhuf- 
tible flax, which fhould perpetually burn in his Baptijiery 
sitl{pme^. And Ludov; Fives bears us Witnefs, that he 
faw many of thefe in Lamps, at Parisyt\\z.t would never 
confume^ That Napkins, Mantles, a Purfe and Rope 
have been made of it, has been fliewn already; and we 
are told that ^^/^^/7^, Canon o£ Millan hadthred, rbaps, 
net-works, and Paper of it'. Marco Antonio Caflagna^ 
who lately found xSxi^mineral fonnewhere in Italy^ knows 
how to prepare, and render it fo tractable and foft, 
that it relembles well enough a very fine Lamhs-Shln^ 
which he can thicken and make thin to what degree he 
pleafeth, and maketh it thereby, like either to a very 
white Skin, ov a yevy white Paper K We have alfo made 
paper of our JVelJb Amiantus but lately here zt Oxford, 
which will: bear both fire and Ink^wtXl enough, the/^|^ 
only turning red by the vioUnce of the fire 
Laftly, to fliew the ir^^j^^ whence it % .that this fub- 
^ ■ ■ ^'i;f 1:" Lf" . , - . . 
CxUi Calcagnini Eptfiol. Quxft. Lihri. Epift. i. d Andr. Turnebi Comment, in Varr. 
de Lingua Lat. ^ Cxlii Rhodigini ie£tioA. Antiq. Lib. 18. cap. 31. c Vid. Geo. Agricols dc 
Nat.Foff. Lib. 5. d C«lii Rhodigini Leaion. Antiq. Lib. i+. cap. 18. e Damaf. m Sylveftr. 
Pap. b Ludov. Vives in Scholioad D. AQguft. de Ctvitat. Dei. Lib. ai. cap. 6. t Muf^utn 
RegalisSocietat. Pare. 3. chap. j-. ^ Philofoph. Tronfad. Numb, 72. / Phjlofoph. Tranfi^. 
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