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PHILOSOPHICAL 
TR ANSACTI ONS.. 
July 26. 1675. U 
The CONTENTS. 
jfnextravtof a Letter^ relating to the Eflay Inftrument <^^y2:r/^<f^ • 
in the foregoing tra5t. A way^ of making all forts of Fruits^ Ker^ 
nels^cfc. grow to m extraordinary bigneji. .Mvertifements^ccca,' 
Jionedhy^m^h. 114, «pon Frofis in fome farts <?/ Scotland ; 
of black Winds j cf the T^arm and fertilizing Steams of the 
fur face of the Earth, Stones.RockSyWaters ; of Petrifying and Me- 
taUizing vfiaters^mth fome Wotesfor the Gardening of Scothnd: 
hy Dr. J.Beal. Mr.FlamfteadV Letter concerning Mr.Horrox'^ 
Lunar Syfteme. An account of Mr.Flatnftead, and MonfQouW- 
aldus , touching the late Eclipfe of the <^loon, jin Account of 
a Book ; viz. The Planters Manual^ ^c. by Charles Cotton 
Efquire^ 
An extract of 4 Letter^ mitten by a Friend to the Publisher out of 
the Country y July24. 1675 ; relating to the Contents of the 
Traft next foregoing, 
I Am very much obliged for the laft pacquet which came fafe, 
and I was not a little tranfported with Joy in the perufal of 
Honourable Mr. Boyles Effay Infirument , as he hath ex- 
preflTcd the five principal ufes of it, which obliges Mankind 
( that hath a regard for Honefty or Juftlce ; or hath any concern- 
ment for G?/^?/, orMettals) to return him graceful Acknowledg- 
ments. Few of us are not fometimes cheated with counterfeit Mo- 
nyj and I think there is fcarce a Houfe»keeper which is not a- 
bufed by falfe Mettals. We are all at the mercy of Feirterers.znd^ 
in the Country, we begin to be in no better cafe in our dealings 
with Goldfmiths and Siherfmiths, Long fince I took notice, how 
light and Silver-like the Pewter was, which defcended to us from 
A a a our 
