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of Copenhagen : Some of thefe weigh about forty or fifty 
ounces, and wer^ found every where fticking faft to pieces 
of black Timber like Ebony. Whither Amber be ot the 
Vegetable or Mineral Kingdom, wou'd be too long a 
difpute at prefent to be determined 5 all I (hall fay at this 
time on this matter is, That the Obfervations I made, 
when in Poland md Pmjjia, where I have feen great quan- 
tities fifhed out of the Sea every day, and dug out the 
Earth, incline me to the former^ nor can I conceive how 
tfaofe Animals, that are found intomb'd in Amber, and are 
mofl: of them, if not all, Inhabitants of the furface of the 
Earth, ftiou d be caught in it, if it were only a Liquid when 
in the Bowels of the Earth, 
9. A numerous Colleftion of very large Branches of Co- 
ral, White and Red, and on@ Black. 
10. A large pair of Stags Horns growing out of a piece 
of Wood, after a very ftrange manner. 
11. Another Branch of a Stags Horn, with a large piece 
of Wood naturally adhering to the top of it ^ the top of 
the Horn piercing thq very body of the Wood, and grow- 
ing fome Inches beyond it. 
12. A Sheep, with a Horn growing out of its fide about : 
a foot long 
13. I meafured the Thigh-bone of a Humane Body I 
fuppofe, that was three fodt and three inches long 5 the 
Head was two foot and five inches round, and the middle 
of it was nineteen inches and a half about. 
14. Two very large Scollop Shells^ that weigh two hun- 
dred twenty four pounds each. 
15« A piece of Marble, with a Natural reprefentation of 
a Crucifix on its outfide, mightily valued by the Ltaher^inu 
And I remember Dj* Hartman^ who wrote de Snccino Prujji- 
4C0, in the year eighty five^ fliew'd me at Koningsberg in 
Prujpa, a piece of Whitifh Amber, having a Woman with 
a Child in her Arms, prettily reprefented by variety of ' 
Colours on the Superfice ; I fufpefted it to b^ Artifici- 
al, 
