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cold and hard, I have feen hewed and employed at 
Catania , and other Places adjacent. It probably 
contains mineral and metallic Particles 5 being a pon- 
derous, hard, grey Stone, ufed for the moft partin 
the Bafements and Coinage of Buildings. 
Hence it fhould feem not impoffible for Stone to 
be caft or run into the Shape of Columns *, Vafes, 
Statues, or Relievo s\ which Experiment may per- 
hapes, fome time or other, be attempted by the 
Curious 5 who, following where Nature has fhewn, 
the Way, may (pofiibly by the Aid of certain Salts 
and Minerals) arrive at a Method for melting and 
running Stone, both to their own Profit, and that 
of the Public, I am, 
\ T)ear $zr, 
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Tour mojl humble Servant, 
G. Cloyne, 
* To confirm what the Bilhop fays, I remember when I was in 
the College in France , that I went to fee a Relation of mine, a 
Frier, at FonUvrand y where he fhew’d me in their Church two 
Pillars of Stone, about 60 Feet high, all of one folid Piece, which 
he faid had been run. J, S . 
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