(fo) 
rubb'd the flimy froth from them , and they appeared of a 
duskifli yellow colour and fmootb. Some hebroak, and the 
reft he kept in a paper ; which when dry,they were like Sfed- 
pearly but more fmooth, and of a perfect gold-colour^ and fo 
ever after continued, as you fee them. Viewed in aMicro- 
fcope, they appeared very polifhedj and without any rugofi- 
ties ; The Figure in moft was fphaerical ; in fome a little com- 
preflfed ; the colour like burnifbtgold, I broke one or two of 
them with fome difficulty, and I found by the Microfcope,that 
it v^/as only a thin fhell that was fo orient and bright, the in- 
ner fide of which fliell was like unpolifli't gold; The inmoft 
fubftance was like brown Sugar-candy to the naked eye, but 
tiox. fo tranfparent : The tafte was not difcemable. ]n Spirit 
of Vitriol they fliruak much and wafted, but continued their 
colour, (poffibly by reafon of the outward skin, which, it 
feems, in thefe was as difficult to diffblve as in true pearls:) 
I'ikewife A^uafortk would corrode and diftblve them tumul- 
tuoufly. 
7hmfar the DoStor. 1 do not queftion((b concludes Mr. 
Lijler^) but he hath ftoreof thefe ^«/7/ ftonesin his cabinet^ 
for, as I remember, he was fo choice of them, that the parcel 
he fent me to view, was order'd to be returned again 5 at leaft;, 
none of them remained with me» 
I am 
Yours, 
Tork tMarch 12. 
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