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of a fkeleton. Signor Paderni told me, that they 
had been viewed with great admiration by fuch of 
the virtuofi, as he had fhewn them to ; and that their 
admiration proceeded from thofe fragments appear- 
ing not to be of the charta papyracea , but of that of 
filk, cotton, or linen. And indeed, if they fliould 
prove to have been made of any of the materials lad: 
mentioned, it would contradict the generally received 
opinion (according to (19) Montfaucon), that paper 
ot filk or cotton, denoted by the common appellation 
of charta bombycina , was fird found out in the 9th 
century ; as that compofed of linen rags (ex linteolis 
contritis et aqua jnaceratis , as Pancirollus (20) ex- 
preffes it) was about the 12th ; and that the former 
fupplied the place of the charta papyracea in the 
ead, as the latter fuperfeded the ufe of it in the 
wedern parts of the world. 
IX. 
A flat piece of white glafs, taken off from to- 
wards the extremity of the iheet, as appears from 
the curvature and protuberant thicknefs of one of its 
fldes above the other parts. I have feveral enerva- 
tions by me, with regard to this fragment, which I 
have not yet had leifure to diged. I fliall therefore 
proceed to the other parts of this collection. 
To enter into a detail of the paintings found at 
Herculaneum, and depoflted in a different part of 
the palace at Portici, would be tedious, as their 
(19) Mem. lit. de l’Acad. des Infcrip. V. 9. 
(20) Rerum Mem. L. ii. tit. 13. 
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