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which he did in fome places, for experiment fake, 
and found flame then breaking out from other parts 
of it a-new, in a very little time, after putting fome 
out, which he kindled again alfo, with flravv ; and 
the natives affured him, any extinguifhed part would 
kindle of itfelf, and flame out again in time : he does 
not fay how long, nor whether new places would 
continue to burn like old ones, his time not permitting 
him to make any farther obfervations of that fort. 
In patting again from Chetagou to Luckipore, he 
viflted the rock again, which, he adds, is of a hard 
nature, feems to have no unctuous matter in it; nor 
would a piece of it, broken oft near a flaming part, 
when heated red-hot, fweat, or difcover any ful- 
phureous matter^ or even throw off any lmoke. Six 
inches from the burning places, no heat was perceive- 
able ; and, clofe to the rock, was a fmall ftream of 
water, that forms a large cafcade over part of it, 
during the rains. A lmall pagoda is lately built over 
this rock. 
The other is a flaming well among the hills, about 
four miles to the fouthward of the rock, that blazes 
on the furface of the water, which the people of the 
country have inclofed with brick-work, in the form 
of a funnel or chimney, that draws the flame to a 
point, and makes it burn fiercer for it. The flame 
iflues alfo with the water through fome holes left in 
the brick inclofure, for conveying it to an adjacent 
ciftern, like fire confined, and wanting vent. The 
water thus let out bubbles like a boiling pot, and 
clofe to the flame is only luckwarm. A pagoda, built 
alfo over the well, is in a conflant mifly fume, much 
like what rifies from the waters at Bath in England, 
