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Rh pretended to contain a great deal of Gold; and again, (as we have above taken Notice of) of which ome of the Danih Greenland Company's Ships returned freighted to Copenhagen in the Year 1636, is a Quetion, which I have no Mind to decide. However thus much I can ay, that by the mall Experience I have acquired in the Art of Chymitry, I have tried both by Extraction and Precipitation, if it would yield and thing, but always lot my Labour. After all I declare, I never could find any other Sort of Sand, that contained either Gold or Silver. But as for bothred and white, you find it here; the red contains ome particular Solis, which can only be produced by the pagyrick Art. or what they call Abetus, is o common here, that you may ee whole Mountains of it; it has the Appearance of a common Stone, but can be plit or cloven like a Piece of Wood: it contains long Filaments, which when beaten and eparated from the Dros, you may twit and pin into a Thread. As long as it has its Rh