46 Mr. king’s Account of a 
many of their valuable qualities, to its being intimately 
mixed in their fubftance; and as it is moreover obvioufly 
ufeful, fome way or other, in the animal fyftem, and may 
be extracted by the magnet from the afhes of animal 
fubftances ; fo it is no lefs ufeful in the confolidation of 
ftones and marble in the foffil world. 
Mr. pryce, in a very ufeful and curious treatife of 
Mineralogy^, has moreover lately fheWn it to be equally 
ufeful in the mineral world, by forming a proper nidus 
for the affemblage of the mod: valuable metals, and at- 
tracting and uniting them thereby. This metal, there- 
fore, feems to be almoft univerfally one of the greateft 
bands that unites the feveral parts of matter, and one of 
the mod: ufeful and important of fubftances in the world. 
It is not for us to prefume to comprehend any thing 
about the original formation of bodies. Such difquifi- 
tions are far out of the reach of our faculties ; nor do I at 
all pretend to enter into them : but we are permitted to 
behold and confider the works of the Almighty, and may 
become wifer and reap profit from the contemplation of 
them, and may perceive in what manner many new 
combinations of matter are continually effected. 
And as we manifeftly perceive plants to grow daily 
for the neceffary fupplies of life, without knowing how 
(h) Mineralogia Cornubienlis, p. 6, 11, 67. 
they 
