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it would not found ; and only (to this Advantage) 
in a certain Chamber here two Stories high from 
the Ground. 
I continue as yet at Kinftaile but fhall fhortly 
return to c Dublin i where I fhall: hope to inlarge the 
Fraternity ; but thefe Parts are molt infipid, and 
void of Curioiity. I am, 
'Dear eft Sir, 
Tour moft affectionate Friend and Servant, 
Kinfaile , Sept. 19. 
1661 . 
Robert Southwell. 
X. A Letter from Mr. J. Durant to the Ho- 
nourable Robert Boyle, Efq\ F.R.S. con- 
cerning a Coal-Mine taking Fire near New- 
caftle upon Tyne ; of the blue Well ; and of 
a fubterraneous Cavern in Weredalej lately 
communicated by the fame Hand. 
SIR, 
Read June 5. r | "* j-j p Honour you were pleafed to do 
174 ' Jb me fome Months ago, in the fa- 
vourable Reception of an impertinent Vifit, embol- 
dens me to apologize for Non -performance of my 
Promife, which you accepted of, for fending you 
fome of our Coal-Marcafites, and fubterraneal Subli- 
mates, from the' fired Coal-Mines near our Town; 
the Weather having been fuch, by Storms of Snow, 
violent Rains and Thaws, and keen Frofts, as it was 
not poflible to gather the Evomitions of our Vul- 
cam’s ; 
