Of Earths. 
Part III. 
Of the nature of Sulphur, Coppery and Alum, fee a very 
good Difcourfe in the Phil. Tranfattions. (a) Of the Ufes, 
fee Agricola, Libavius , Crollius, IS'c. I have feen a linciure of 
Sulphur of Mr. Boyls, brought over the Helm , which will 
fume all away. I remember not where he defcribes it, but 
as I take it, ’tis made with Sal Ammoniac. 
CHAP. III. 
Of EARTHS. 
Wo Parcels of EARTH RAINED on the Archipe- 
lago, upon the Eruption of M. Vesuvius, Dec. 6th 
1631. Given by J. Evelyn Efq;. One, is gritty, and of the 
colour of Amber. The other a foft Bole, and looks like 
powder’d Jalap . I dropped fome Oil of Vitriol on them, 
but they ftir not. This Earth began to rain about Ten of 
the Clock at Night, and continu’d till two next Morning: 
So that it lay two inches thick on the Deck of Captain W. 
Badilys Ship, who fent this Relation. While it rain’d, no 
Wind llirrmg. It fell in feveral parts a hundred Leagues 
* l,il diftant. (b) 
21 ' A parcel of EARTH, RAINED lately upon Tenariff. 
Given by Mr. Jofeph Bowles, a Merchant in this City. Of 
a pale Clay-colour, and infipid. Yet upon the affufion of 
Oil of Vitriol, makes a fuddain Effervefcence 3 herein diffe¬ 
rent from the former. 
FINE SAND, from a Sand-Pit near Bruley in Kent. 
Given alfo by Mr. Evelyn. Of this is made the cleared: 
and bell Englifh Glafs. It confifteth of fome Grains, as 
clear as Cryjial : with which others obfcure, being mixed, 
give a whitifh a(h-colourto the whole Mafs. 
A Sandy fubftance of a Gold-colour, found in a Vein of 
Stone in Hartford in New-England. 
Black SAND of Virginia. 
Black SAND found on the lliore near New-Haven in 
New-England 5 with fome Grains of red and white. 
The like out of St. Chriftophers Ifland. 
Fine white SAND of Saco in New-England. 
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