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Fire that it quenched with cysts kindled with water.

It is thus made: I said that Naphtha will burn in water, and that Camphire is a kindof it. Wherefore, if you mingle brimst one with it, or other things, that will retainfire ; if you cast in oyl or mud, it will quench it; but it revives and flames more, ifyou cast in water. Livy relates, That some old women in their plays, lighting Tor-ches made of these things, passed over Tyber, that it seemed a miracle to the be-holders. I said it was the property of Bitumen to take fire fromwater, and to bequenched with oyl. c DiofcoridesWv\ That the Thracian stone is bred in a certainRiver of Scythia j the name of it i- Pontus: it hath the Force of Jet , they fay k isenflamed by water, and quenched with oyl, like as Bitumen. T{tcander speaks ofthis stone thus:

If that the Thracianstone be burnt in fire.

And wet with water , the flame will Aspire ;

But oyl wid quench it* Thracian shepherds bring’This stone from th' %jver Pontusstoets ftng.

Torches that will not be put out by the winds.

They are made with brimstone, for that is hardly put out, if once kindled.Wherefore Torches made with wax and brimstone, maybe carried safely throughwinds and tempests. These are good for Armies to march by , or for other necessa-ry thing?. Others use such: They boil the wick of the Torches in Salt-pctcr andwater; when it is dried, they wet them with brimstone and Aqua vita: of this mix-ture then they make their Candles, wicb brimstone, and then with half Camphire,and Turpentine, two parts Colophonia, three of Waxj of this they make four Can-dles, and put them together: in the middle that is empty, they cast in qnick-britn-stone, and they will forcibly resist all things. Orthns: Boil wicks of Hemp or Cot-ton in water, with Salt-peter; take them out and dry them: then melt in a brass potequal pares of brimstone, gunpowder, and wax; when they are melted, put in yourwicks to drink up part of the mixture; take them out, and to what is left in thekettle, add Gunpowder, Brimstone, and Turpentine, of each a like quantity, ofwhich mixture make y our Torches, and joyn them together. Also there is made

A cord that set on fire , (hall neither smoke nor smeU.

When Sculdters or Hunters g© secretly by day or night, they use sometimes to makea Match, that bring lighted, will neither smell near hand, nor far off, nor make anysmoke; for wild Beasts, if the Mitch smell, will sent it, and run to the tops of theMountains. Take a new earthen por, and put into it a new cord so handsomely, thatthe whole pot may be filled - so laid in rounds, that no more can go in; cover it, andlute it well three or four times, that it may have no vent 5 for the whole businessdepends on this. Then make a fire round about it, by degrees, that first it maygrow hor, then very hot, and lastly red hot; and if sometimes the smoke come forth,stop the chinks wich clay still; then heaped up under the coles, let it grow cold ofit self ; and opening the Pot, you shall finde the Cord black, like a cole. Light thisCord, and it will neither smoke nor smell.

Chap. XI.

Fire-composttitns for Festival days.

I Hive shewed you Terrible and Monstrous fire-works, it is fit ro shew yen someto use at Solemn Times: not so much for use, as to give yon occasion to find outhigher matters. I shall shew then how to make one,

That when a man comes into his Chamber , the whole Air may take fire.

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