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[Page 48]
Amsterdam
synagogue of German Jews but coming too late adjournd immediately to a subscription concert whose musick but indifferent was playd to a small assembly not consisting as I was informed of the best company in Town.
27. Went this morn to Mr Cramer who shewd us a tolerable collection of minerals particularly rich in Cinnabar Lying in masses of Iron stone, his brother who is concernd in working the mine from whence they come having sent him the first peices which were to be had.
his shells were poor among them a Tepye pearl ie Chama Gigas was shewn as a stone taken out of the belly of a fish Papagayo bec Labrus. among his Petrified woods was one in which another small peice seemd to lye the grain of which ran a different way from that of the first this he valued as a most scarce curiosity beleiving it to be have been a part of some building or work of human art before it became stone his Cobalts also were good & he had a peice of Chara beautifully encrusted with stone