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Various productions of the earth ; fuch as, grain, 
beans, figs, dates, nuts, piftachio’s, almonds, rice, 
bread. 
Colours for painting. 
Medicines in pills, and other forms, with their 
marks. 
A phial of oil. 
Gold lace, perfectly well preferved, and extremely 
curious, on account of its being made with mafiy 
gold, fpun out, without any filk, or other yarn. 
Soap, bran, and a variety of other things, which 
it were tedious here to enumerate ; but there will be 
a relation of the whole publillied, which I (hall im- 
mediately fend to you j as I hope you have received 
the book of Monfeigneur Bajardi, already fent, altho’ 
of little fignificance *. 
It is not a month ago, that there have been found 
many volumes of papirus , but turn’d to a fort of 
charcoal, fo brittle, that, being touched, it falls rea- 
dily into allies. Neverthclefs, by his majefty's orders, 
l have made many trials to open them, but all to no 
purpofe ; excepting fome words §, which I have 
picked out intire, where there are divers bits , by 
which it appears in what manner the whole was 
written. The form of the characters, made with a 
very black tinCture, that overcomes the darknefs of 
the charcoal, I {hall here, to oblige you, imitate 
in 
* The words in the original letter arc, ct Comefperoche avera 
ricevuto il libro de Monf. Bajardi inviatogli a benche non ferva.” 
§ 1 fufpeCt an inaccuracy here in the original, and that he 
meant, “ excepting Tome bits, which I have pick’d out intire, 
“ where there are feveral words, bV.” 
