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luce I had the Honour of receiving your laft, there 
O came to my hands feveral Curious She//s from you, 
with a piece of EngliJhAgatey and the Tranfadions of 
the Royal Society for the Month of June laft, for which 
Favours I return my Humble Thanks. As to the Cockles 
of the Cafpian Sea, and from the Mouth of Wolga, I have 
Advice from that they are expefted there this 
Winter : Meanwhile I herewith fend you feme SnaiU 
Shells^ taken out of the River Jaute^ not far from the 
City of Mofcou. Our Apothecaries make ufe of them 
powdered, and probably for the fame purpofe as Crals- 
Eyes. There are fome others likewife which are found 
in the Rivers of Mofcou and Neglifta, and in the Wolga: 
Since you have been pleafed to communicate to me an 
Infcription found at Perfepolis^ I thought it would be 
acceptable to fend you the Draughts of part of the 
Ruins of the Stone-work of that Proud Palace, given 
me by the Perfon himfelf that drew them upon the 
place. I ftiould be much fatisfied had I any thing worthy 
of your Curiofity and the Publick, which you fb often 
Oblige with your Difcoverics, which juftly merit mine 
and the Thanks of ail that efteem them as much as my 
(elf, who am the Cherilher of yourFriendfhip, andde- 
firous to {hew that I am, 
SIR, 
Tour moH HumUe and Oledient Servant y 
tiA ' N. Witfen. 
n. Dr. Gwither'j Difcourfe of Phy fiognomy. Communka- 
ted by Mr,OwQt\ Lloyd, Secretary of the Philofophical 
Society at Dublin. 
INdex animi vultus^ is a faying frequent in the Mouth of 
every Pedant, and every Fortune-telling Charktain pre- 
tends to read a ]Sian's Face, as the AMoger does Heaven's. 
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