Introduction. a7, 
peare, ag yy uote tx thetr collections anv 
gatherings of auncient tngeriptions or Porsies, 
Petrus Appianus ant Bartholomeus, Amantius, 
Hermolaus, Barbarus alga tn bys Corallarium 
ur avNiciow fpaw Dioscorides mate mention 
Of thig same thing, where asx he entreateth of 
waters incomun. Chere is also (saith He) a 
Heauenlpe water or rather Niuine of the Chy- 
mistes, whprhe bathe Democritus any Mercury 
Trimegistus kKuetue, callypng it sometpmes a 
Yeutne water, sanretimes a Scythicall liquar, 
sometimes pneuma, that ts, spirit of the nature 
uf the firmanient and of the first essens or 
substance of things: wherent potable goly anv 
that 
Philosophers Stone ”’ 
nich spoken of, but not pet found, cnrgisteth. 
Chis kinve of liquor, as ET suppose, Voth the 
Cpigramme sigquifie, of late found within the 
ffely of Padua, nie bute the billage calley 
Atesta, mate upon earthen or bricke mettal, 
ant therefore frail, anv broken huawares bp 
the bantes of a man of the country Digging the 
