'pcnt-cdly waffied' till cleared of aH. térêne'ipkrtîélesj .ihffYthe flax
Istdrieà.iEi àfïiéuë that .the water may tun off thefooner* all that
remains now, is to fpin thefe fine ffiaraenttywhereki great care, is
required, befidies which, the fingers anuft be fofterted with oil*
that theyvmay'beithe more Jupplé and .pliant;.-. That Kircher and
cffiers&ouM. have frtiftakbn ihis Rone- for the alumen plumofuni
* i and imagined it alltim fire-proof; i appears hardly prohable,
efpeciallyjas allum has_ a--very acrimonious and peculiar
tafie, which this flone is fö fer fröm having* that it is a.S void of
tafie as' any öthfer’ finite 'éhà
'* ' f j^ C i T VIL
A phyfical fingülàrity ‘here^is/ that a botintty thus abounding No flints
irf ifiohd& has nodhiitfs, ^ arms are imported
fnpaiDertpark; or Germany^- In aH my circuits, -! habe.never
feen a flint-fipne in Norway; and all whom I havé enquired of
agree that if there are! any, they ftevçï hâve been difeovered : But
ohkdtef other handtf ;the mineral mountains produce à kind of ov*-
MBWy Ji r » "A- . n • « [ , F.,' , ■ ' ' t-ï' » FrWSSMiSrs rites or firérfionp, namely, the qugftz, as it is caned, which at<*
firft .fightrefembles the before-mentioned fpar, Or fiufeh glittering
vitrious Rones; hut that it is of a different kind appears from
hence,: thktAn .dielfire it is pot reduced ito linie örRücdo. as thole
are; but beeptnes flùidy and is : therefore ufed; in the glafs-diouies.
~%S È |J ||j| VIII.
I Thisxfuatte or marcafia; is;bf very near affinity to the Norway c A^E;'
'çryftal, ; of ;which there are great quantities both here and in thePlate I;-
other provinces, and of a larger fixe than mofi of thofe in Switzerland,
Rphemia, and other parts. The mountains are the proper
native place of the. cryftals, which fometimes are ïçen ftif-
pehded on them, and glitter in the fim to the amazement of
ftrahgers ; but thefe are liable to be walhed away into the rivers,
and from thence-into the lakes; and this is the only way I cap
account for cryftal being fqund in the great mios, as It certainly
Js, Mr. Peter Underlin in his topography of Norway, mendpns
* Efeb'itaque *h1fec lapidèm elïê ty^b^Etjiîtn ex. certa alumiûk.feu .talcj Jpepe, ut
próinoje eutn rnulü alümen fetffile aut alumeii plupiæ nominandum ptitarint, ,eftenim
fnrfïto ntoTtióridiTStfamënüs etc. 'JVtunlLïutterran. life.- V,UI.-tSe£t. III. cap. i, p .-£7.,
3 1 c ' his