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bake of that thicknesse wthout breaking. mr Hooke Related tht
there was an Expedient to make very thick peices of earth
to be burnt wthout breaking or chopping, that mr. Dwight
had made some heads of earth of a very as big as the
life, that his earth was as hard as porphury and that the
excellency of china earth was that it would Indure
the greatest fire wthout Vitrification

from this Discourse of stones and earth the company fell
into a Discourse concerning mettalls and mineralls and
particularly about the way of making Brasse
mr. Pouey Promised to Bring in the whole way
of making Brasse practised in the forrest of
Deane . where there was vast quanititys to be had
of the Lapis Calaminaris. Dr. Brown also promised
to bring in his obseruations of that matter in Hunga
ry.
mr. Pouey mentiond a sort of Ambergrice which had been
taken vpon Floriday and was brought ouer hither wth
a king of that country, that this ambergrice had
not exactly the smell nor consistence of the true
ambergrice but seemed rather to be somewt more
bituminous. He was Desired to bring some of it that
it might be seen & examined here which he promised
to Doe.

The same also added further that he had a sort of cotton
cod which produced a Down as fine as any silk though it
were but short and not much Larger than that of a thistle
of which he promised also to produce a specimen at some other
meeting of the Society. mr wheeler also spoke relating
that scammony produced some such cod & Down promi
sed to produce some of it at some other meeting of the Soci
=ety -
Dr. Brown Discoursing of Hungary mentiond that mr Bemde of this Soci
ety had ^ /seen/ a Rarity which he had brought from thence vizt

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