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is with this subject, as with some of more importance,. . allow as much as is possible for actual appearance and for the beholder's state of mind, there still remains something which can only be explained by intentional deceit. With whom the deceit originated in this instance, my reading upon such points is too casual and far too limited for me to have discovered. I find it in Paracelsus, in his book De Resuscifatione Rerum naturalium, where among the facts and fables which this extraordinary man always mingled together, the following paragraph occurs. Resuscitatio autem et restauratio ligni est difficilis et ardua, attamen naturæ possibilis, sed sine insigni solertiâ & industriâ fieri nequit. Ut autem revivificetur, tali maxime modo id fit: Recipe lignum quod primum fuerit carbo, postea cinis, et pone in cucurbita, una cum resinâ, liquore & oleitate illius arboris; omnium sit idem pondus, misceantur, & in leni calore liquefiant; et fiet mucila-