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in two fhort lines ; my fidelity to the king not per- 
mitting me to fend you any more. 
n.a nrjuN>/-Dw 
DFXA* CN>K1 J'-CR.VDE: 
This is the flze and fhape of the characters. In 
this bit there are eight lines. There are other bits 
with many other words ; which are all preferved in 
order for their publication. 
There have been found likewile very lately three 
beautiful flatues of marble, and one of them excellent: 
Six heads of bronze, of which there is one, that 
gives hopes of finding the flatue it belongs to. It is 
a young Hercules, of a kind of work, that has no fellow 
in the way of metal, having the hair finifhed in a 
furprifing manner. Likewile feveral little figures of 
metal ; a fiftrum very neat and well preferved 5 and 
there is not a day paffes, in which they do not bring 
to me fome curiofities newly found. 
X. A Tra?iflation arid Explanation oj fome 
Articles of the Book intitled , Theorie de 
la Figure de la Terre ; hy Mo?if Clairaut, 
of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris, 
and F, R> S. 
Head Feb. /TR. Short, in his account of Father 
*75 3* Frifius’s Difquifitio mathematica 
in cciufam phyficam figures et magnitudims tellur is 
nofires, having reported that philofopher’s fentiments 
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