^3 1 
€. Defer ipt ion la piece d^ ambregns que la 
chambre d' Amflerdam a recue des Indei ori- 
entaks pefdrit 18 2 livres avec un petit 
traite de fon origine is^ de fa vertu far Nico^ 
lasCbemlier a Amfterdm chex^l auteur. i 
in 4o.pag. 6j* 
THe Dufch Eajl India Company prefented the Au^ 
thor of this Treatife with the Plates they had 
caufed to be graved of the piece of Ambergriefe they had 
from the Eaji Indies^ of 182 pounds weight, 16 ounces 
to each pound. In the Preface he mentions and figures 
a Medal made on this occafion. About the Figure of the 
piece of Ambergriefe on this Medal is this Infcription, 
OCCVLTVM NATVRM AC NOBJLE DORON^ 
Under it FRAGMEN. AMBR. GRTS. LIBRAR. 182. 
HVC ALL AT. 1 694. On the revcrfe is Amfterdam^ 
and its Port, with 2 Fleets, one entririg, another fettiog 
Sail, abourwhidl is this Inlrnpf^ VRBI, 
and under it VIFANLDIIMEI PBNATE^. 
He gives fome account of what feveral perlons have 
faid ot Ambergriefe, more particularly he has made ufe 
of the abftraft in thefe Tranfaftions of Klobiuss Book 
called Amhr£ Hijloria printed in the year 1666, in 40. 
He mentions from otlW Authors fome large pieces of 
this fubftance, as a piece of 300 weight found near Cape 
Comorin , fold as a Bitumen, and another of 1 5000 /. 
found near the fame Cape. He gives the opinions at 
large of Garcias ab Horto, AntoinQ Colin^ Serapio, Scali- 
ger^ Sec. and comes at laft to his own, which is, that 
'ds a Bitumen-, aM comes f rom theEntrails of the Earth , 
thisvg^eat piece has tlie figure of a drop, which may 
cotue 
