I A Letter pom Mr Wilfon to the Puhlijher^ gL 
ving an account of the Lapis Aoiianthus, Asbe- 
flos, or Linum incombuftiblc, lately found in 
Scotland* 
BEing fenfible of the fhare you have in advanc- 
ing thekudy into the Rarities of Nature, I prefume 
to give you the toUovving relation of what I obferved in 
the Lafk Amianthis and Incombuftible Lint, which I 
found out in ScotUnd : Whereby perhaps there may be 
fome light given to the fearching further into the na- 
ture ot its produftion, becaufe the defcription of it, gi- 
ven by Vlinj and feveral of the Ancient and Modern 
Writ.rs of the Rarities of this Nature, feems fomewhat 
different from this. 
Having heard that in the Ground of Franck Gordon 
of Achindore^ in the Shire ot Aberdeen^ near the Hig^ 
lands,^ there were found fome pieces of petrified Wood 5 
I had the curiofity to go to the place where they were 
found, about a mile from the Gentleraans Houfe. 
There on the fide of a Hill of a Heath kind of Ground, 
fomewhat inclining to what we" call Mofs, in a very 
fmall Brook, and hard by ic, in the bounds of ten or 
twelve yards, I found a great many of thofe^ Stones, 
fome a loot in length, which appeared plainly like 
Wood : But becaufe I could not perceive any footftep of 
Wood thereabout, neither could any of them be found, 
except in that very fpot ot Ground, I could not be per- 
fwaded they were petrified Wood, Then I went to 
cut up the Ground about the place with my Knife, 
where 
