An excellent Artifieraltered from 'Artificers' whom I often employ, complained to me that having lately cast a kind of bell metall upon a very strong solid †piece deleted instrument of iron of a considerablealtered from 'considerably' superficialaltered from 'supercial' area thô the metal were suffer'd in a warm roome to coole from about 8 of clock on saturday night 'till 10 or 11 on munday morning and were then considerably hot to touch, yet it coold so far that shrinkeing from the iron that would not shrinke with it, the bell metal crack'd in divers places with †a deleted noises <loud as the report>replacing 'like that' of a †gun deleted pistol. †And the same perso deleted thô the metal he affirm'd to me was an inch & half or 2 inches thick, & the same person shew'd <me> a large †spindle deleted Cylinder of iron <about>replacing 'on' which for a certain purpose a coat of bell metal had been cast some dayes before, <on> which (bell metal) there was a crack near one end made by the coldness of the iron thô the thickness of the belmetal as near as I could measure it exceeded an inch. & as the workman affirmed about an inch and a quarter.

He tooke out the vessells, beginning at the small 'till he came to some of the larger, and there †makeing deleted made ligaturs, and so proceeded to the larger branches and the trunks themselves, to each of these portions cut off hadaltered from 'was' a small string tyed <to it>replacing 'so it' and was marked by a letter