the Plow : So we made an eafy Purchafe of about a 
dozen ancient Manufcripts on Parchment, 
As to your Queries : The Mackjnboy is the Tithymalu* 
Hibzrnkus ( or latifolius fylv aliens) Cat. Hort.Oxon. Their 
Shamrvg is the common Clover. The Potato is not indi- 
genous of Ireland. The Arbutus is, for what I can yet 
underhand, the fame with the Common : And for the 
Sabina, I doubt my Friend I fent to Kerri fwhom E 
have not yet feen^l will bring me no News of it. 
I have the Account of the living Foffil Mufcles at- 
tested and figned by the four Perfons prefent at the find- 
ing them y fo that nothing but its being a fingular In- 
ftance makes me fcruple the Relation ; But the Labourers- 
have fuch a Character for Veracity, that I rather incline 
to believe it, than to doubt; I am, 
\ w y Ulif '+x ! Lf . 
Honoured Sir , 
Tour moft obliged Servant r 
* E- LHWYD. 
¥. An Account of Experiments, concerning the Pro- 
portion of the Power of the Load- [tone at different 
Di/hnces. ‘By. Mr, Fr. Hauksbee 5 F. R ♦ S. 
W ithout mentioning the many Difficulties that at- 
tend the making of Experiments of this Nature, 
I fhall immediately give an Account of their Succefs,. 
and the manner of proceeding y which was as follows,. 
I took a Quadrant of 4 Feet Radius $ and having fix’d* 
fa to the. Floor, m the Politic &- of 'the Needle, wbofs- 
South 
