OfOXFO%T>^SHl%E. zfi 
Mure of this tranfparenc Earthen-ware in England-, like that of 
China^ is the glazing of the white Earthy which hath much puz- 
.'zet'ci the Proje^or, but now that difficulty alfo is in great meafure 
overcome. 
87. He hath alfo caufed to be modelled Statues or Figures of 
the faid tranfparent (a thing not done elfewhere, ^ox China 
affords us only imperfeft mouldings^ which he hath diverfified 
with great variety of colours^ making them of the colours of Iron^ 
Copfer-y Brafs^ and party-coloufd^ as fome Achat-flones. The con- 
fiderations that induced him to this attempt, were the Duration 
of this hard burnt Earth much above brafs^ or marble, againft all 
Air znd Weather; and the foftnefs of the mztter to he modelled^ 
which makes it capable of more curious work, than Jlones that are 
wrought with chifels^ or metals that are cail. In fliort, he has fo 
far advanced the Art Plaftick^ thzt 'tis dubious whether any man 
fince Prometheus have excelled him, not excepting the famous P^- 
mophilu^^ and Gorgajm of Fliny 
88. And thefe Artshe employs about materials of Englijh 
growth, and not much applyed to other ufes ; for inflance, He 
makes the flone Bottles of a Clay in appearance like to Tobacco-fipe 
clay-, which will not m2ke Tobacco-pipes, though the Tobacco-fipe 
clay will make Bonks ; fo that, that which hath lain buryed and 
ufelefsto the Owners, may become beneficial to them by reafon of 
this manufa^ure, and many working hands get good livelyhoods ; 
not to fpeak of the very confiderable funis of Engli^j Coyn annual- 
ly kept at home by it. 
89. About Nettle-bed they make a fort of brick^o very ftrong, 
that whereas at moft other places they are unloaded by hand, I 
have feen thefe (hot out of the Cart after the manner of Jlones to 
mend the High -ways, and yet none of them broken ; but this I 
fuppofe muft be rather afcribed to the nature of the Clay, than to 
the skill o^^ the Artificer in making or burning them, and (hould 
therefore have been mention'd in the Chapter of Earths. 
90. At Caverfiam, near the Right Worflnpful Sir Anthony 
Cravens (and at fome other places) they make a fort of brick. 
22 inches long, and above fix inches broad, which fome call 
Lath-bricks, by reaibn they are put in the place of the Laths or 
Spars (fupported by in /9^y?j for drying 7/2^7^//, which is 
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