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 LXXXV. There is in Cilicia a kind of Earth, which by boiling becomes tough and vicous; with which they cover the Vines intead of Birdlime, to preerve them from the Worms.

LXXXVI. It may alo be proper to mention here the Earths which are naturally endued with a Quality of petrifying Subtances immered in them; ince thoe which yield peculiar and different Juices, have unquetionably ome fixed and peculiar Properties, and