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Taris in Height i and in such Plenry that they now Cut them down, asthe chief Fuel, to Melt and Refinethe Orc of Silvtr and Lead-Mistes, lätcly Difcover’d near the Caßle of Roß , in the County of Kerrj.

The Other float Istall takeNotice of n Cotyledon, sive Sedum SerratumLatifolium Montanum Guttato Flore Parkinsimi & Rait, vulgarly calPd by theGardeners Londcn-Pride : I suppose becaiie of its pretty elegant Fhwer, thatview’d near at Hand and examin’d closely, appears very Beautiful, consist-iug of great Variety of Parts. The whole Piant is most Accurately de-fcrib’d by that Profound Naturalist Mr. Ray: But he knew no certain Placewhere itGrew Sftmtaeeous, not having met with it in ali his Travels ; norany Author mentjoning its Native Country. It Grows plcntifully btre withus in frelmd, on a Mountain catl’d the Mmgertm in Kerrj, 6 or 7 Milesover, and nepoted tbe Highest in Ireland, 2. Miles frotn the Town of Ritar•nj, and 4 Miles from the Castle of Rosi : Here it Spreads it feli (b abundant-ly, as to Cover great part of the Mountain, and, forasinuch as I understand,like the Arbutus, ’ris peculiar to this County alone.

Wbether both the faregomgPlants are truly American , I cannot at pre-srnt Determinet but this I know, that Sabina Vulgaris, orcommon Savin,New-E land ' a mcntion’d by Mr. Josielyn, as a Piant Common on the Hilis of New-Rtritits. England', and Ihave been assur’d by an Apothecary of Dublin , that he hasgather'd Savin growing Wild as a Native Sbrub in one of the Islands ofLougldane, in the County of Kerry ; and if so, 1 have reason to believe,that hereaseer fanher Inquiry may add to thefe I have here given, scve-ral other Exaroples of things Natural and Common to 'that and thisDountry-

ckfirvtfxmi X. i. I toofc noticeat Deal, wbere I set Sail for Jamaica, of the greatT?' r’m r ^ Ehfference in the Rufimg of Iron, in steh Houfes as Front the Sea, ia colh-u'Jto”tb' S- pari ion of that Effect in the Street immcdiately placed behind that other, ina* 3 ! ^bich 1 made this Obftrvation. They told me, that it Rufied more atf . 1137 bligh Floods than at Neap-Ttdes : the HeightoFthe Btacb hindring the Sa-hne ExbaUtims . This Remark put me in mind of the Vanity of the Ar-gument of M. bigam and others, vix,. That the Air of the Wefi-lndtes wasHot and Meist, becauft of the Rvßing of Iren ; whefeas it indeed ariscsfirora fome Other Principk in the Air, kor at the Point of Cagua, where itfcarce Raineth 40 Showers in a Tear, hon Rufis as much or more tban anywhere; yet are their other Parts of the Ißand, in which of 9 Mmtbs,mot One passes without great Rain. Besidcs, in j famaica it Rusts least inJLainy Weather.

The Stearns of the Sea are stund of such a Nature, that our Sweat-meatsRotted; Sugar of Roses, and other Lozenges grew Möist ; and thofe Pytsand Ganmcns of Eaton , which had kept well before, after they had been•nee Expoe’d to the Open JÜr t Dtcasid more in a Day or 2, than ini Weohs before.

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