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48 lour of yellow Bras. In my Expedition upon Dicoveries I found on a little Iland, where we touched, ome yellow Sand, mixed with Sinople red, or Vermilion Strokes, of which I ent a Quantity over to the Directors of the Greenland Company at Bergen, to make a Trial of it; upon which they wrote me an Anwer, that I hould endeavour to get as much as I could of the ame Same; but to theirs, as well as my own Diappointment, I never was able to find the aid Iland again, where I had got this Sand, as it was but a very mall and inignificant one, ituated among a great many others; and the Mark I had taken Care to put up, was by the Wind blown down. Nevertheles there has been enough of the ame Stuff found up and down in the Country, which when it is burnt, changes its former Colour for a reddih Hue, which it likewie does, if you keep it a while hut up cloe. Whether or no this be of the ame ort of Sand, as that which Sir Martin Forbiher is aid to have brought ome Hundred Tuns to England, and was pre-