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count of fever al Experiments made to examine the Nature 
of the Exp an fion and Contraction of Fluids hy Heat and 
Cold, in order to afcertain the Divifions of the Therm o- 
meter, and to make that Inflrument^ in all places, without 
adjuHing hy a Standard. By Mr. Edm. Haljey, S. R. S. 
6. An Account of a Book, viz. Novce Hypothefeos ad ex- 
plicandi iebriiun intermfctentium Symptomafci & Typos 
c-Kcoguata^ Hypotypofis, una cum apologia Remedio- 
rum ; Ifeciacirn vero de curatione per Corticem Veruvi 
anum. accefik Diflerraticuncula de Inteftnorum motu 
Periftaltico. Authore Guilielmo Cole M.D. Imp. Lond. 
in 8°. 1693. Proliant apud S. Smith. 
t Some Experiments on a Blacky Shining Sand 
brought from Virginia, fnppo/d to contain 
Iron, made in March 1689. By Allen Mou- 
len, JVf. D. and Fellow of the Royal Society, 
fince Dead. 
1. j% Small Phial filfd with ordinary white Sand, 
t\ and containing only 5/. gr. xj. being fill'd with 
the Virginia Sand was found to contain $ij&i} x ngr.f 9 that 
is, BjJS. more than what was equal to it in bulk. 
2. This Sand did apply to the Magnet both before 
and after Calcination, but the latter did apply better to 
it than the former. 
3. A parcel of this Sand mix'd and calcin'd with pow- 
der'd Charcoal, and kept in a melting Furnace for about 
an hour, yielded no Regulus, but apply'd more vigoroufly 
to the Load-ftone than either of the former. 
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