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A Ring fee with a tranlparent Agate. 
Two Pieces of Terpentine Stone for the Lid and 
Bottom of a Snuff-box, and Tome Pieces of metal¬ 
lic Cryftal from Mount ALtna. 
Among Tome Bronze Figures brought hither 
with the Cotton Library is one particularly worthy 
of Remark on account of its Singularity, the naked 
Body being covered with a rough Subftance, and 
upon the whole bears a great Refemblance to the 
Porcupine Man who Tome Years ago fhewed him- 
felf to the Royal Society, and afterwards to the 
Public in general: he is, I believe, yet alive, and 
has a Son of the fame wonderful Appearance. 
T. Hollis, Arm r . Dono Dedit. 
We now come to fome Articles given by A, 
Hollis , Efq. particularly Thread, Corn, Hinges, 
and other Matters, brought from the Ruins of Her - 
eulaneum. 
More Brafs Axes, Heads of Spears, Wedges, 
c. for an Account of which the Reader is referred 
to Page 25. and fome Keys, Bracelets, &V. 
There are here fome Articles of which the origi¬ 
nal Ufe is not yet with any Degree of Precifion 
known by the Learned of the prefent Age. 
When we attentively view the Matrices where¬ 
with the Remans ftamped their earthen Ware, Tiles, 
idc. (of which there are fome Specimens here pre- 
ferved) it feems a Matter of great Surprize that 
human Invention fhould in thefe early Times have 
gone fo far towards difeovering the Art of Printing, 
and that it fhould yet fail of being compleated till 
many Ages afterwards,- 
