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ingin fcalding water and fopej will (the matter being 
again put out into the Sun or wind to dry,) be much a 
dijEFering colour from all tho(e mention'd. i. e. of a fair 
bright Crim/on, or neer to the Prince s colour; which 
afterwardsfnotwithftanding there is no ufe of any Stiptic 
to bind the colour) will continue the fame> it well order- 
ed; as I have found in handkerchers,that have been waflit 
more then 40 times; only it will be (omevvhat allay'd, 
from what it was, after the firft wafliiiig. I made large 
Letters on fo many cloths, as there are diftind: colours, 
to put them into a Book, which kept them from the ^irs 
I have feverall months after, fliewed the various colours 
diftind: as aforefaid ; yet by often opening the Book, 
and fo expofing them to the ^ir, all the colours, except- 
ing the two laft/I mean before wafliing either) will fade; 
but all the colours, being waflit, will be one and the 
fame. While the Cloth fo writ upon, lyes in the Sun, 
it will yield a very ftrong fetid fmell ; (which divers who 
have fmelt it could not endure, j as if Garlick^^ JJfa-fte- 
tida were mixt together ; which I proved but few days 
before I wrote this, though it had been at leaft twelve 
months, kept in a Book, and before it was laid in the 
Sun, had very little of that fmell. I have farther obferv- 
ed, that the cloth dryed and waflit, foon after it is 
wrote on, will appear freflier & brighter, then after being 
long kept in a Book ; as I found by iome I newly cauled 
to be waflit, after they had been i4 montbs fokept. 
The Shells are of divers colours, but the mod part of 
them white ; fomeare red, when newly taken off the 
Rocks; fome yellow i others of both thofe colours; 
fome a blackifli brown ; many of a Sandie colour ; and 
fome few ilriped with white and brown parallell lines : 
I have herewith fentyoumoftof the colours, with one 
of the largcft I have found, and one of the leaft ; with 
feverall of the middle fized. 
The 
