or INCOG, is applied to a person who is in any place where he would not be known: but it is more particularly applied to princes, or great men, who enter towns, or walk the streets, without their ordinary train or the usual marks of their distinction and quality.

INCORPORABLE CLOTH. See ASBESTOS, MINERALOGY Index. On this Cronstedt observes, that the natural store of the asbestos is in proportion to their economical use, both being very inconsiderable. It is an old tradition (says he), that in former ages they made clothes of the fibrous asbestos, which is said to be composed by the word buffer; but it is not very probable, since if one may conclude from some trifles now made of it, as bags, ribbons, and other things, such a dress could neither have an agreeable appearance, nor be of any conveniency or advantage. It is more probable that the Scythians dressed their dead bodies which were to be burned, in a cloth manufactured of this stone; and this perhaps has occasioned the above fable. M. Magellan confirms this opinion of Cronstedt's, and informs us that some of the Romans also inclosed dead bodies in cloth of this kind. In the year 1756 or 1757 he tells us, that he saw a large piece of asbestos cloth found in a stone tomb, with the ashes of a Roman, as appeared by the epitaph. It was kept, with the tomb also, if our author remembers rightly, in the right-hand wing of the Vatican library at Rome. The under-librarian, in order to show that it was combustible, lighted a candle, and let some drops of wax fall on the cloth, which he set on fire with a candle in his presence without any detriment to the cloth. Its texture was coarse, but much finer than he could have expected.

INCORPORABLE, something that cannot be burnt or consumed by fire. See ASBESTOS.