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being spun and woven, makes a stuff like linnen indeed, but of an incombustible nature: The Stone is called Asbestos, and the stuff Amyanthus, which being fowl and soyled, is not be made clean by washing in water, but by throwing into the fire. Baltazar Bonifacius in his Historia Ludicra tells of many who had such stuff. 5. A world of rare Meddals of the old Consuls and Emperours in silver, gold, and brass, making divers series. 6. A world of wooden things, as also fruits, and fungi, all petrified and turned into stone; and yet no metamorphosis neither, the things retaining their pristin formes. 7. Divers curious Clocks, whereof one shews the time of the day (strange) even in the night by a quadrant. 8. The little round Cabinet flat above, like a childs drum, with a smooth glass: The Master setting little Ships, Coaches, &c. upon the glass, they wheel and move up and down as it were of themselves: when all is done by a sympathetical virtue and by the Masters turning secretlya