A Piece of Opacous yellow AMBER half a foot long. Given by Thomas Henshaw Esq;. Found, with several lesser pieces, in digging of a Ditch under the Walls of Rensburge in Holstein, eighteen feet under ground. Which place is at least five and twenty miles both from the Baltick and German Seas.

TRadeTrade. An Arabian BALSAME-BOTTLE. Given by Thomas Henshaw Esq;. 'Tis two feet high, and near an Eln in compass. Shaped like a Long-Neck used in a Reverberating Furnace. Examining it well, I find it made neither of Glass, Earth, Wood, or any Vegetable Body; but only of Leather and Parchments. The inmost Parchment, as thick as that us'd by Scriveners. Next to which, is another, as thick as the best Cordovan-Leather; but as sturdy as Whale-Bone. Next to This, another like the Inmost. Over all, is very titely and curiously sew'd a Cover of tan'd Leather. The top of the Neck hath a Ring or Collar, made only with raming in a kind of Gummy Earth very hard between the middle and the utmost Skin. The Stople made of Firwood. So much of the Balsame which sticks to the sides of the Bottle, is of an extraordinary fragrancy: and seems not inferior to that which some Drugists sell under the Name of the Balm of Gilead.

A Pair of Iceland GLOVES. Given by Th. Henshaw Esq;. About ½ a yard long, and ¼ broad at the Tops. Made of Deer- Skin; not tan'd, but only dry'd, with the Hair on; and lin'd with the same. The Tops faced with Scarlet Serge, Embroyder'd with Flower-Work, made of Leaden-Wyre, twisted (as Silver-Wyre on Silk) upon brown Hempen Thread. I call it Wyre, not because it is Drawn, which this Metal cannot be, but for that it is so small. In the vacancies of the Work, are set Copper-Spangles with knots of the same Wyre.

A Pair of Iceland BOOTS. Given also by Mr. Henshaw. Made of dry'd Deer-Skin, as the Gloves. Somewhat above a foot long, and about a foot broad at the Tops. The small of the Leg, above ½ a foot. The Foot, but eleven inches. Lined with another sort of Skin, and that only dry'd. The Knee faced with course red Cloath; and the top of the Foot with Lists of the same; both Embroyder'd with twisted Leaden-Wyre, like that on the Gloves. On the end of the Toe, a Button made of a Leathern Thong knoted in a round form, and wrought over, not with twisted, but plain Leaden-Wyre. They are stitch'd together with Cat- Gut. How the people use them, I see not; for the very same Skin, which is thin, and with the Hair on, makes the Sole, as well as the Top, of the Foot, and the Leg.