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firft the Quarrier began to dig ir, he was at a mighty 
lofs 5 for endeavouring to cut and raife it after the or- 
dinary manner with Wedges, and other ufuai Inftru- 
mcnts, it broke and crumbled all to pieces : But after- 
wards, .obferving more narrowly the Du& of its Fi- 
bres, fo to fpeak, he endeavour’d to cut it with Spades- 
lengthways 3 and by this means he procured Stones 
as big as he had a mind, which fmoothed very eafily 
along theTraft of their Fibres^ but when cut tranfverfe, 
no Means nor Methods could render them fmooth, but 
their Surface remain’d unequal as the Extremities of a piece 
of Wood. Although, as I faid, this Quarry has but few 
Interdices, yet in thofe it has the true Jsbefios , of a 
whitifh Silver Surface, confiding of feveral fafciculi with 
parallel Fibres, like to thofe of the mufcuhr Fibres of 
falted Beef, eafily fepirable from each other, pure 
white, till it becomes fo fmall as the fined: Flax, and fb 
du&ile, that it may be fpun into the fined Thread, 
whereof it were eafy to make the incombudible Cloth, 
fo famous for Shrines among the Ancients, la o. 
ther places of thofe Interdices, was likewife to be ob- 
ferved a reddidi Subdance, near to the colour of Sanguis 
Draconis $ but whether Fibrous or not, I cannot inform 
you,- lince the Gentleman could not fhe-v me any of it 3 
but added, he believed it might be good fcr dying. I 
got a fmall parcel of the Asbejlos from him 3 and he told 
me, if he had known its value, he could have preferv’d 
fome Pounds of it. I am ready to think the fecond kind 
was Fibrous too, which might make a very beautiful 
Cloatb, being drip«d with the other. The Quarry is 
at prefen t full of Pvubbifh 3 but he tells me, he is to 
build again thisenfuing Summer 3 and you may be af- 
fur’d, if any fuch Subftance be hereafter found, it dull 
be carefully preferred. In a Word, this whole Qiarry 
rnav be faid to be Jsbefios of different Colours, the blue- 
ilh being of a much courfcr, and the white and red of 
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