2 8 n^e L I F E Mr. RAY. 
About this Time Mr. Ray (that he 
might make his Journeys as ufeful to 
the World as they had been enter- 
taining to himfelf) began to draw up 
his Obfervations for the Ufe of the 
Public. And one of the Firft Things 
he fet upon was his ColleSHon of Pro- 
verbs; which he digefted into the 
(6) Another Obfervation I meet with in this 
Year, or rather the Beginning of i66g, is an 
Account from Mr. Jennings^ the High Sheriff 
of Warwickjhire that Year, viz, “ That if, 
among the Charcoal wherewith they melt 
their Iron-Mine, there be any confiderable 
Quantity made of Holly,, it will make the 
Iron brittle, and have the fame Effed upon 
it that any 'Sort of Pyrites, mixed with Pit- 
coal or Sea*coal hath. But if the Holly be 
“ barked before it be charred^ or made into 
V Coal, it v/ill have no fuch Effe6l.’^ 
we carefully prevented any other Sap 
coming o?t the Filter^ but what 
ceeded from the Hole (6). 
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