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V'll. A, Letter from Mr, Stephen de Vifme 
to Mathew Maty, M, D. Sec. R. S. con- 
taining an acount of the ?nanner^ in which 
the Chinefe heat their rooms. 
S I R, 
Read Jan. 31, y | \ E great pleafure I have in oblig- 
JL rendering any fervice to 
your Royal and illuftrious Society, made me requefi: 
the Rev. P. Gramont, miffionary, (a man of great 
family and fenfe, whom I was acquainted with at 
Canton before he was ordered to Pekin, by the Em- 
peror) to make enquiries, and colleft any curiofity 
ufeful to philofophy, mechanicks, and natural hif- 
tory, that might be ufeful to mankind, and agreeable 
to the curious. He has been fo polite to tranfmit me 
the model of a Chinefe furnace, ufed to warm the 
apartments 3 together with a mufter of different coals, 
lime, &c. for the Royal Society, which I fend to 
my brother Co be tranfmitted to you ; and I ffiall 
be happy that it comes fafe to your han(!s. Father 
Loreyro, miffionary and phyfician to the King of 
Cochin China (a gentleman we are greatly obliged 
to for his humanity, in cloathing, feeding, and getting 
a paffage to fome poor fhipwrecked feamen of the 
Earl Temple) ; is at work upon drawing a correefi 
I e draught 
