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 within Houes. Some Kinds of it are alo ued by Painters in their Buines; and by the Fullers, about Cloaths.

CXVI. It is alo excellent, and uperior to all other Things, for making Images; for which it is greatly ued, and epecially in Greece, becaue of its Pliablenes and Smoothnes.

CXVII. Thee Qualities of the Gypum, therefore, fit it for thee and uch other Ues; for it eems naturally to have, as it were together, the Heat, and Tenacity of Lime, and the more vicous Earths. But it poees both thee Qualities in a much uperior Degree to either of the others, which have them ingly; for it acquires, on being moitened, a Heat much greater than that of Lime, and is much more tenacious than the mot vicous of the Earths.