The natural history of Barbados : in ten books . P Of the Natural Hijlory of the Book Of M IN ERALS. E S I D E S the Ufe of Minerals in Phyfic, they are defignedfor feveral other Ends, as well as for Ornament; but their chiefValue is in Money, which is become the common and moftprudent Method of Exchange : Nor are their Advantages inUtenfils to be forgotten, whether they are defigned for thecommon Purpofes of Life, or made into Inftruments neceffary for theImprovements of Arts and Sciences. In the various and different Forms of Minerals, as well as their Qua-lities, we find fuch evident F
The natural history of Barbados : in ten books . P Of the Natural Hijlory of the Book Of M IN ERALS. E S I D E S the Ufe of Minerals in Phyfic, they are defignedfor feveral other Ends, as well as for Ornament; but their chiefValue is in Money, which is become the common and moftprudent Method of Exchange : Nor are their Advantages inUtenfils to be forgotten, whether they are defigned for thecommon Purpofes of Life, or made into Inftruments neceffary for theImprovements of Arts and Sciences. In the various and different Forms of Minerals, as well as their Qua-lities, we find fuch evident Footfteps of Divine Wifdom, as leave us noroom to fufpe6l, that they are the Effed of bHnd Chance, tho formed inthe deep Receffes of the Earth. Men have univerfally confented to flamp the greateft Value upon Gold:And tho they have as univerfally affigned the hottefl: Climates, as themofl: natural to ripen, and to give Colour to, this illuftrious Ore ; yet, inthis warm Ifiand, neither the Soil upon the Surface, nor at any Depth inthe Earth, at leaft in general, as far as Two (i) hundred
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