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Bolognia [[Bologna]]

Animals - Veget. [vegetable?] fossils - and
extraord'ry [extraordinary] Productions - Marbles
& Stones - also a fine large Library,
with Portraits of Men eminent in
Literature of different Nations -
& a great Collection of MMs: -
of w'ch [which] - there were ab't [about] 300 Volumes
wrote by [[Ulysses Aldrovandus]] bound
up & kept in excellent Order

~~In one~~ Rooms were appointed for
the Reception of the principal Statutes
& Busts done in Plast'r [Plaster] of Paris, ye [the] molds of w'ch [which] were taken
from ye [the] most capital Collections at [[Rome]]
& [[Florence]], & finished here.

There were some good Skeletons
& artistic Subjects - of Wax, particularly
a most elegant Adam & Eve done
[by] in Wax by ye [the] celebrated [[Signora Mazaline]]

We bought here some bolognian
Phosphorus w'ch [which] ~~becomes~~ is a Pyrites that
by a chymical operati'n [operation] becomes luminous
ye [the] man told us by means of Sp's [Spirits?] of wine, & a cert'n [certain] heat, not
to [ad] fully to calcine it, yet not too little - but more he w'd [would] not tell us

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lrile almost 5 years ago

Contains the unclear abbreviation "MMs".

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lrile almost 5 years ago

Contains the unclear abbreveation "Sp's"

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