A letter from Mr. Nich. Waite merchant of London, to Dr. Rob. Plot; concerning some incomebustible cloth, lately exposed to the fire before the Royal Society.

Sir, The great respect and honour I bear to the learned and ingenious Gentlemen of the Royal Society , prevailed with me, within few days after my arrival in this city , to explore to their fight & examination a piece of LinnenCloth , which by their experiment consumed not in the fire : and you being then desirous I would give a Short narrative of what Substance , and in what parts it is said to be made; I here fend you the fame account I received of it, from one Conco , a natural Chinese , resident in the City of Batavia in the North-East parts of India .