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to be sent aloft. When you would use them, raise your Brass-Guns, or more con-veniently the bat end of your Guns, and take the Ball in a parr of Iron Pinchers,and give Fire to the holes,that it may take: when your are certain that it is lighted,with your right hand cast it into the hollow of the Gun ; and with your left, givefire to the lowest touch-hole of the Gun : when it is fired, it rebounds ; and be-ing carried up by force of the Fire, it seems to run up and down in the Air,as I ofteilsaw it at Rcmc, and prepared it. They are made allo

Another way.

Take Sea-pitch three parts, Turpentine-Rosin two parts, as much Brimstone, onepart Goats suet: powder what must be powdered ; and melt in a Brass Vessel whatwill melt : put them together, and stir them with a wooden stick. Then cast in Hardsof Hemp or Flax, so much as will drink up all the mixture: then take the Brass Kettlefrom the fire , and with your hands make Balls as big as you will, that they may beshot forth of Brafs-guns; and before they grow hard, thrust them through withwooden sticks,making small holes: then put in Gun-powder broken with Brimstone,and rowl them about upon a T able strewed with Gun-powder,and through the holesfasten cotton Matches rolled in the Powder, as I shall strew : let these dry and growhard in the Sun. The way to discharge them from a Brass Gun is this : Chuse suchas are commonly called Pet rils, that are fittest for this use. The weight of the Gun-powder to be put ino the Veffel, must be one filth part of the Ball, or a littlemore or less ; for if you put in much, they are either cast down by the too great vio-lence of the Fire, or else they are put cur as they flic, and do not answer our expecta-tion. Tnt Powder being pot into the Vessel, lay neither Hards nor Hemp upon it;bu: fit the Ball upon the Powder, that as that fires, it may fire the Ba 11, and send itforth. Here is a more noble Composition

tAnother way.

Take five parts of Gun-powder, three of Salt-Peter refined, Brimstone two, Colo-phon.a oue half part, beaten Glass, common Salt, of Oyl of Peter, and of LinseedOyl,and termed W<y»<a Vita as much: powder what must be powdered , and pass itthrough a fin.- Cievc: then melt it in a new earthen pot with burning coals, withoutflames let them not sparkle ; for io the Composition may take fire. Then cast inthe Powders, that they may incorporate well together : then make round Coffinsof Linen cloth as 1 said, and fill them with the Gnn-powder alone , and binde themwith cords about : then wrap yourTow in the Composition, and make a Ball of thebigness vou would have it - and if you will shoot it out of a Brass Gun, binde it thethicker with little cord : then pierce your Ball through in many places with woodenpricks , that they may ertne at the powder that lieth in the middle: then put cottonMatch through , that when it flies in the Air so violently, they may preserve thefire. In another earthen Pot, melt Pine-Tree-Gum , Gun-powder and Brimstone,and dip in your Ball into that liquor, that it may be allover-cast with it. When youtake it out, lift up your cotton Marches with a stick*, and strew them with Gun-powder* This Ball will sorely punish the Enemies with a great noise, cracking andbreaking asunder : the Fire cannot be put out : it will burn all kinde of Furniture,Garments and what else, till it be all consumed ; for it will burn Armour so migh-tily, that unless they be taken off, they will burn the man.

Chap. V I. .

Of Campos twns with burning Waters.

P Hilosopfiers seeking the Reason of Waters that lie hid above and under the earth,and are always hot, they fay, Bitumen is the cause thereof, which being once onfire, hath tl‘i* property, that it will not only not be put out, but if you cast on waterit will burn t he more. The Mountain Chimæra burns always in Phafelis,both nightand day. (jnidiui Ctefias faith, The fire of it is kindled by water, and is put out with

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