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rich and beautiful a colour, that perhaps it might better have 
been placed among the Ochres^ but that mix'd with Oyl, it turned 
darker than that they call Englijh^ and much more To than the 
f^ruce-Ochre of Shotover ForesL 
20. Befidethefe, we have another /we Hdfr/Z', of a white co- 
lour, porous and friable, infipid and without fcent, dilToluble 
in water ; and tinging it, of a milky colour, and fomtimes raifing 
a kind of ebullition in it ; found frequently in the liffoms or feams 
of the Rocks, or ftickingtothe hollow roofs of them : in fhort, 
fo altogether agreeable to what Conradu6 Gefner (and out of him 
Boetiu^ de Boot ^ Calceolariws^ Aldrovandu^^ and Olau^Wormiu^) 
calls Lac Lundd^ that 1 could not but think it the very fame. And 
to put all out of doubt, I tryed the Experiment of Daniel Major 
(who wrote no lefs than a whole Treatife concerning it) and 
found according to him, that with Lacca^ though I could get 
none good, it gave the skin fo florid a whkenefs, that 1 dare pro- 
nounce it a good Co/met ick-) and upon that very fcore have given 
it place here. 
21. I obferved itfirft near the Womfierroad, about mid- way 
httw^en Holm ^nd Sir Tifnot by Tjrrils-j where the Stones taken 
up, fori know not what ufe, as alfo at fome places in Whately 
field, were all in a maner covered with it. And I met with it 
again near Hafeley^ in the fields between that and little Milton^ 
and quickly after at long Hanborougb^ upon ftones provided for 
walling there : I enquired af the Quarry-men what it might be, 
whether they had made any ufe, or obfervations of it, but all I 
could get would amount to no more, but that it was a fign of a 
very good Lime-fione, ■■ 1- v ' 1 ^ 
22. which alfo it feems is \i^ chara5ler zmong^ our Neighbors 
in Ireland^ wliere (we are ^ told) the bell Lime-Jlone is of a gray 
colour, and if broken, has a white duft that flies away from it. 
But if we may believe Ohm Wormim^ 'tis a fign alfo of fomthing 
much better than that, who apprehends it to be nothing lefs than 
a certain effed of MetaHick vapors : Oritur^ (faies he, fpeaking of 
Lac LunccJ avaporiim mttallicb^ qui indies fub tiles vehunt exhala- 
tiones.^ qudsmhi per faxa in cavitates exfudaverint^ humido euocato, 
quod ficcum tft remanet ist inmedullam hanc raram, tcneram^ isrfria- 
bilem concrejck. ^ To which Daniel Major not only agrees, but 
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