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Thofe Particles in fotne River Water, fattening 
to the Oak Timber floated in it, give the fame a 
darkifh colour 5 taken notice of by Mr. Pepys in his 
Naval Memoirs of England, p. 71. where we are told 
by the moft famous Ship-Builders of England , “ That the 
“ beft Foreign Plank for the Royal Navy was brought 
a either from Dantzick^ ghtinborovp, (that is Koningsberg ,) 
<£ or Riga, of the Growth of Poland and Prujjia , or from 
u Hamburgh \ namely, that fort thereof which is Shipp’d 
“ from thence of the Growth of Bohemia , dittinguifn’d 
“ by its Colour, as being much more black than the 
other, and rendred fo (as is laid) by its long fobbing 
“ in the Water during i:s Paflage thither. 
In the Turf Boggs of Ireland 14 Foot deep, are found 
not only the Moufe-Deers Horns, mentioned in one of 
thefe Tranfadb'ons, but likewife their whole Sceletons, 
wherein she Bones bear the fame proportion to the like 
Bones of other Deer, as the Horns bear to their Horns, 
There are alfo found thereinGold Chains, Pieces of Money, 
and Roots of Heath, feveral mufei, and Branches of Trees 
fo fofr, as to give no reifftance to the Turf Spade : And I 
was told, that in cutting Turf in one, they at feveral Feet 
deep cut thro’ what the Irijh call a Reskin of Butter 
f which was a Firkin, or Vt del, made of theBarks of Trees, 
nfed by the Old Iriflj for putting up their Butter.) And - 
I remember, that in digging the wet Dock at Deptford, 
there were found at the bottom, about Nine Foot 
deep, Grafs Leaves, Hazie Nuts, and Roots of Trees; 
And there alfo was fouad a Piece of Money, ss they 
call’d it ; which efteeming a Rarity, they lent to Sir 
Jofiah Child. I had the Favour to have it fent me by 
Mrs. Willoughby , and it prov’d to be a Leaden Seal to 
fome Bull of Pope Gregory the IX. who continuedTope- 
from the Year of our Lord 1227 to 1241. 
[ have nothing farther to trouble your Bordfhip' 
with 1 , but fome few Pafftrstes i took, nance of in Ldand's* 
