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on the sea but that Amber or Succinum was of an other
nature & was generally found at the Bottom of the
sea.
The same also tooke notice further that mr. Boyle had a way
of Including insects in a certaine cleer colophon made
by the gentle euaporation of Turpentine which being
cold & Hard would very much Resemble true amber
and preserued any Insect put thereunto very intire -

mr. Hooke affirmed that he had a way of inclosing an
Insect such as a fly worme or the like in Amber arti
ficially which could hardly be Distinguished from
a naturall production of that kind.

He also further added that he was of opinion that Amber
was nothing els by but the turpentine or Resinous gum
of trees which hauing Layen a Long while in the
sea or vnder Ground was in processe of time petri=
fyed or at Least hardned to that Degree of which
it was found . wch. he was the more prompted to beleiue
from the Expt. Dr. Daniell Cox had tryd vpon the earth wch
found some years since at nee Islington the oyle
of the said earth smelling perfectly like oyle of amber
which was made to haue that smell from the burying of
colophony there by a chymist.

mr. Henshaw obserued that the smell of yellow
amber when Rubbed was very much like that
of Rosemary

Sr. Ionas more gaue a Relation of the manner of
the firing of A Damp in a cole mine at Lumley
which was wth. soe great a violence that that it
shook the Earth for a great way round about and
carryed some miners that were Going down into it a

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