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Take os the V'arnißh prepared in the Sun 6 o Ounces, Stonc~blacl (. Aflum , m

( supposed to be a fort os Copperas ) diffolved in a little Water, z Drains, '

73 Drams os Lamp-Oy l,ca.W'd by the Portuguess Adelte da Cändert. It is preparedin a VVooden Veisel as the prepared Varnißo, obferving to put in the Lamp-Oylat twice.

Take os the 0)1 of fVcod Crude ( called by th cPortugueße A^eite de Pae)pß'^ olour ' !t40 Drams, of the Lamp-Oyl, called de Candea, Crude 46 Drams, if is preparedin the Sun in a VVooden Vestel as the prepared Varnißo." ; '

Take 10 Drams of Cinnabar, 10 Drams of Varnißo prepared, a little Oyl de ReA i'arniß.Candca or Lamp-Oyl, mix them well.

Take of the Tellcw Colour 10 Drams, 30 Drams of prepared Varnißo, with TW/ow turnß.(ome Lr.mp Oy!.

Take of the Red Varnißo 10 Drams, of the B'acl^ Varnißo 4 Drams, mix Muit^colour'Athem Well. Varniß.

VI. M. Cclbert, being plealed forne while since to visit the Acadcrny fyyal An Examen offor the Improvement of Paintivg and Sculpture, exprefled himself to this effect, poi'd^Ty^At'that he thought it proper front time to time that the Works of the mostColbert.Excellent Painters should b e Examined, and such observations made thercon n ‘ 47 ‘ I' ? 53 'as would Infertil others wherein the Petfcclion of a Piflure confists. Which

bath been ever since practisod among them, as the best Means to carry theArt of Painting to its Highcst Perfection ; sijch an Examen of the befi Pitluresdilclosing many Secrets of that Art, for which there are no Rules, and open-ing a Door to debate many Important Qucstions, hitherto not treated of.

VII. Here is a Man who makes more lively Counterfeits of Nature in and

iVax, then ever I yet saw in Painting, having an extraordinary Addrefs inMbdeling the Figures , and Mixing the Colcurs and Sbadorvs j making the Eyes Reliero, in

lo Lively, that they Kill all things of this Art I ever beneid. France ; by.'..

I have also seen a New kind of Maps in Loxv-Relicvo, or Sculpture ; for "* 6 ' f 'Example the Iste of Antibc, upon a Square of about 8 Foot, made of Boards,with a Prairie like a Pifture: There is Reprelented the Sea, with Ships andother Vessels Artisicially made, with their Canons and other Tackle of Woodfixed upqn the Stiriace aster a New and most admirable manner. The Rocksabout the Island exactly Form’d, as they are upon the Natural Place ; andthe Island it seif wi h all its Inequalities and Hills ^nd- Dales; the To'wn, theForts, the little Houses, Plat-form, and Canons mounted; and even theGardens, and Pl.at-forms of Trees, with their Green Leaves standing upright,as if they were grywing, in their ETatural Colours; in sine, Men, Beasts, andwhatever you.may Imagine to have any Protuberancy above the Level ofthe Sea. This New Delightful and most Instruktive Form of ä Map, ,orWoodpn Countfy, you are to look upon eipher.Hor.i^ontally, or side Long,and it affords eqitylly a very.pleakntObject.' . , ..

VIII. Whether the Way mentioned by Kjrcbcr in his Mundus Subterraneus To edonr au>-will succeed or not, is jnuch. doubtpd by.some Experienced Mest ;,But , thrpr- ble > •

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