donnance of his Imperial Majefty, they will hencefor- 
ward boil about 100,000 Tun, which they will ex- 
port as the other. Martin Zeller^ in his Defcription 
of the Kingdom of Hungary y Pag. 119, makes but 
flight Mention of thefe rich Salt-works.’ 
In fine, we faw at Neufoly at Mr, De NefzernSy 
Receiver of the Emperor’s Rents, a Statue of Rock- 
Salt as large as Life, which ferves as the Barometer of 
Neufol 5 for when it begins to fweat, or grow moifi, 
it prefages Rain, or wet Weather, but when it is dry, 
you may certainly promife yourfelf fettled fair. 
After having employed three Hours to view thefe 
Salt-works, we afcended again by the upper Open- 
ing, by a common Rope, and returned to Eper, where 
we were civilly entertained by Mr. P^opprerery one 
of the mofi: knowing Men in all Hungaryy Redor 
of the Lutheran Academy, who underfiands and fpeaks 
ten Languages in Perfedion. 
III. 77 ;e iiatural Hiftory of Cochineal^ being an 
Account of a (Boo^ entituledy Hiftoire naturelle 
de la Cochinelle juftifiee par des Docu- 
mens authentiques Amfterdam, 1729. ®j/ 
W. Rutty, M 2 ). % S, Secr^ 
A Difpute arifing betwixt the Author {^Melchior 
de la Ruufcher) and a Friend, concerning the 
Subftance of Cochineal, the one maintaining it to 
be a fmall Animal, the other tlie Fruit, or Grain of 
a Plant, the Author took the Pains to’ procure from 
Antlquera 
