I. An ExttaB\ of a Letter ffom Mr. Robert^ 
Vans of Kilkenny in Ireland. Dated Nov. 
• 5* Henry Million. 
WE have bad of late, in the County of Lime^ 
ricky and Tipper ary^ Showers of a fort of Mat- 
ter like Butter or Greafe : If one rub it upon ones 
Hand it will melt, but lay it by the Fire, and it 
dries and grows hard, having a very (linking Smell. 
And this laft Night fome fell at this place, which I 
did fee my felt this Morning. It is gathered into 
Pots and other Veflels, by lome of the Inhabitants 
of this Place. 
ExtraS from the Bijhop of Cloync s Letter^, 
near Youghall, April 2dl i6p6* 
f Think my felf obliged by the Doty I owe your 
(eif and the Royal Society^ to furnifli fuch Accounts 
of Natural Hiftory, as I fuppofe are not common. Ac* 
cordingly having very diligently inquired concerning 
a very odd Fhcemmenon^ w^hich was obferved in many 
Parts of rMunfier and Leinjier ^ the beft Account I 
can Colled thereof, is as follows : For a good part of 
laft Winter and Spring, there fell in fevcral places, a 
kind of thick Dew, which the Country People called 
Butter y from the Confiftency and Colour of it, being 
ioft, clammy, and of a dark Yellow ; it fell always 
I in the Night, and chiefly in Moorifh low Grounds, on 
