He has
been in England since, by the name of Baron Crownstrome, to treat from
his master the King of Sweden, over whose mines he is superintendant,
as his father was before him. The vitriol-oare we find here is like
suckwood, which being layd in a dry place slakes itself into graine of
blew vitriol, calcines red, and with a small quantitie of galles makes
our water very black inke. It is acid tasted as other vitriol, and apt
to raise a flux in the mouth. Sir, yours, &c.
August 12, 1689. J. L".
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"In the parish of Great Badminton, in a field called Twelve Acres, the
husbandmen doe often times plough up and find iron bulletts, as big as
pistoll bulletts; sometimes almost as big as muskett bulletts". Dr.
Childrey's Britannia Baconica, p. 80. ["Britannia Baconica, or the
Natural Rarities of England, Scotland, and Wales, historically
related, according to the precepts of Lord Bacon". By Joshua Childrey,
D.D. 1661. 8°.]
These bulletts are Dr. Th. Willises aperitive pills; sc. he putts a
barre of iron into the smith's forge, and gives it a sparkling heat;
then thrusts it against a roll of brimstone, and the barre will melt
down into these bulletts; of which he made his aperitive pills. In
this region is a great deale of iron, and the Bath waters give
sufficient evidence that there is store of sulphur; so that heretofore
when the earthquakes were hereabouts, store of such bulletts must
necessarily be made and vomited up.
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