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Of Antimony , Mercury ,&c. Part III. 
(a) Muf. 
Met. 
(b) Num. 
CHAP. III. 
Of ANTIMONY, MEKCVRY, and other 
METALLICK BODIES. 
S TYRIATED ANTIMONY, from the Gold Mines of 
Chremnitz. Given by Dr. E. Brown. The Styriae , in 
this, arc very fair, many of them as thick as in that which 
is factitious. 
STYRIATED ANTIMONY, alfo Native, from Corn¬ 
wall called ROSCARROCKS. A Congeries of llrait, 
long, {lender, and edged Styridt, of a bright Steel-colour, 
almoll like a duller ot frnall broken Needles. Aldrovandus 
(a) hath a fort ol native Antimony , which Ambrofinus calls 
Plumofum. 
GRAINED AN'IT M ON Y, or rather Antimonial Ore , 
from Hungary. Given by Mr. Oldenburge. It looks like 
black grained Silver Ore. Immerfed in a Stone, although 
of a feurvy opacous and fandy colour, yet fo hard as to cut 
Glafs. 
ANTIMONIAL ORE from Transylvania. Given by 
Dr. E. Brown. It grows in a foft Bed, almoll like Lead 
Ore. 
ANTIMONIAL ORE, holding Iron, from Cornwall. 
Almoll of the colour of Amber : yet with a Grain fomewhat 
glolfy and very crofs. 
A Metallick (probably an ANTIMONIAL) Comijh 
Stone, black, hard, and ponderous, It confilleth of a great 
many Clutters ot Ihort glolly Sty rice, radiated almoll as in 
the Belemnites. But becaufe irregularly broken and heaped 
together, but difficulty obferv’d. 
Antimony is of excellent ufe for the Refining of Gold: 
fee an accurate Procefs, communicated by Dr. Jonathan 
Godard, and by Me publifhed in the Philofgh. TranJaLiions. 
(b) An T h part in proportion to the Cogger, is by fome add¬ 
ed with the Tin , for the bell Met allied Sgeculums. 
Founders add a little to their Bell-Metal, to make it more 
fonorous. And fo Pewterers, to their Pewter, to make it 
found more clear like Silver. Tis alfo ufed in the calling 
of Iron Bullets , to make the Metal run the better. The 
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