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A01552	Sylua syluarum: or A naturall historie In ten centuries. VVritten by the Right Honourable Francis Lo. Verulam Viscount St. Alban. Published after the authors death, by VVilliam Rawley Doctor of Diuinitie, late his Lordships chaplaine.	Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626.; Rawley, William, 1588?-1667.; Cecil, Thomas, fl. 1630, engraver.	1627 (1627)	STC 1168; ESTC S106909	303,154	346

you stay Neither shall you stay one day the lesse for that As for any Merchandize yee haue brought yee shall be well vsed and haue your returne either in Merchandize or in Gold and Siluer For to vs it is all one And if you haue any other Request to make hide it not For yee shall finde we will not make your Countenance to fall by the Answer ye shall receiue Onely this I must tell you that none of you must goe aboue a Karan that is with them a Mile and an halfe from the walles of the Citty without especiall leaue We answered after we had looked awhile one vpon another admiring this gracious and parent-like vsage That we could not tell what to say For wee wanted words to expresse our Thankes And his Noble free Offers lest vs nothing to aske It seemed to vs that we had before vs a picture of our Saluation in Heauen For wee that were a while since in the Iawes of Death were now brought into a place where we found nothing but Consolations For the Commandement laid vpon vs we would not faile to obey it though it was impossible but our Hearts should be enflamed to tread further vpon this Happy and Holy Ground Wee added That our Tongues should first cleaue to the Roofes of our Mouthes ere we should forget either his Reuerend Person or this whole Nation in our Prayers Wee also most humbly besought him to accept of vs as his true seruants by as iust a Right as euer Men on Earth were bounden laying and presenting both our persons and all we had at his feete He said He was a Priest and looked for a Priests reward which was our Brotherly loue and the Good of our Soules and Bodies So he went from vs not without teares of Tendernesse in his Eyes And left vs also confused with Ioy and Kindnesse saying amongst our selues That wee were come into a Land of Angells which did appeare to vs dayly and preuent vs with Comforts which we thought not of much lesse expected The next day about 10. of the Clocke the Gouernour came to vs againe and after Salutations said familiarly That he was come to visit vs And called for a Chaire and satt him downe And we being some 10. of vs the rest were of the meaner Sort or else gone abroad sate down with him And when we were sett he began thus Wee of this Island of Bensalem for so they call it in their Language haue this That by meanes of our solitary Situation and of the Lawes of Secrecy which we haue for our Trauellers and our rare Admission of Strangers we know well most part of the Habitable World and are our selues vnknowne Therefore because he that knoweth least is sittest to aske Questions it is more Reason for the Entertainement of the time that yee aske mee Questions then that I aske you We answered That wee humbly thanked him that he would giue vs leaue so to doe And that wee conceiued by the tast wee had already that ther was no wordly thing on Earth more worthy to be knowne then the State of that happy Land But aboue all We said since that wee were mett from the feuer all Ends of the World and boped assuredly that we should meete one day in the Kingdome of Heauen for that we were both parts Christians wee desired to know in respect that Land was so remote and so diuided by vast and vnknowne Seas from the Land wher our SAVIOVR walked on Earth who was the Apostle of that Nation and how it was conuerted to the Faith It appeared in his face that he tooke great Contentment in this our Question Hee said Yee knit my Heart to you by asking this Question in the first place For it sheweth that you First seeke the Kingdome of Heauen And I shall gladly and briefly satis fie your demaund About twenty Yeares after the Ascension of our SAVIOVR it came to passe that ther was seen by the People of Renfusa a Citty vpon the Easterne Coast of our Island within Night the Night was Cloudy and Calme as it might be some mile into the Sea a great Pillar of Light Not sharp but in forme of a Columne or Cylinder rising from the Sea a great way vp towards Heauen and on the topp of it was seene a large Crosse of Light more bright and resplendent then the Body of the Pillar Vpon which so strange a Spectacle the People of the Citty gathered apace together vpon the Sands to wonder And so after put themselues into a number of small Boates to goe nearer to this Marueilous sight But when the Boates were come within about 60. yeards of the Pillar they found themselues all bound and could goe no further yet so as they might moue to goe about but might not approach nearer So as the Boates stood all as in a Theater beholding this Light as an Heauenly Signe It so fell out that ther was in one of the Boates one of our Wise Men of the Society of Salomons House which House or Colledge my good Brethren is the very Eye of this Kingdome Who hauing a while attentiuely and deuoutly viewed and contemplated this Pillar and Crosse fell downe vpon his face And then raysed himselfe vpon his knees and listing vp his Hands to Heauen made his prayers in this manner LOrd God of Heauen and Earth thou hast vouchsafed of thy Grace to those of our Order to know thy Workes of Creation and the Secretts of them And to discerne as farre as appertaineth to the Generations of Men Between Diuine Miracles Workes of Nature Works of Art and Impostures and Illusions of all sorts I doe here acknowledge and testifie before this People that the Thing which we now see before our eyes is thy Finger and a true Miracle And for-as-much as we learne in our Bookes that thou neuer workest Miracles but to a Diuine and Excellent End for the Lawes of Nature are thine owne Lawes and thou exceedest them not but vpon great cause wee most humbly beseech thee to prosper this great Signe And to giue vs the Interpretation and vse of it in Mercy Which thou doest in some part secretly promise by sending it vnto vs. VVhen he had made his Prayer hee presently found the Boate he was in moueable and vnbound whereas all the rest remained still fast And taking that for an assurance of Leaue to approach he caused the Boate to be softly and with silence rowed towards the Pillar But ere he came neere it the Pillar and Crosse of Light brake vp and cast it selfe abroad as it were into a Firmament of many Starres which also vanished soone after and there was nothing lest to be seen but a small Arke or Chest of Cedar dry and not wett at all with water though it swam And in the fore-Fore-end of it which was towards him grew a small greene Branch of Palme And when the wise Man had taken it with all reuerence into his Boate it opened of

Part only on the Outside Wheras all other Fruits haue it in the Nut or Kernell The Firre hath in effect no Stone Nut nor Kernest Except you will count the little Graines Kernells The Pom granate and Pine Apple haue onely amongst Fruits Graines distinct in seuerall Cells No Herbs haue Curled Leaues but Cabbage and Cabbage-Lettuce None haue double Leaues one belonging to the Stalke another to the Fruit or Seed but the Artichoke No Flower hath that kinde of Spread that the Woodbine hath This may be a large Field of Contemplation For it sheweth that in the Frame of Nature there is in the Producing of some Species a Composition of Matter which happeneth oft and may be much diuersified In others such as happeneth rarely and admitteth little Variety For so it is likewise in Beasts Dogs haue a Resemblance with Wolnes and Foxes Horses with Asses Kine with Bustes Hares with Coneyes c. And so in Birds Kites and Kastrells haue a Resemblance with Hawkes Common-Doues with Ring-Dea●s and Tortles Black-Birds with Thrushes and Manisses Crowes with Bauens Dawes and Choughas c. But Elephants and Swine amongst Beasts And the Bird of Paradise and the Peacocke amongst Birds And some few others haue sea●●● any other Species that haue Affinity with them We leaue the Description of Plants and their Vertues to Herballs and other like Bookes of Naturall History Wherein Mens Diligence hath b●●●● great euen to Curiosity For our Experiments are onely such as doe euer ascend a Degree to the Deriuing of Causes and Extracting of Axiomes which wee are not ignorant but that some both of the Ancient and Modeme Writers haue also labôured But their Causes and Axiomes are so full of Imagination and so infected with the old Receiued Theories as they are meere Inquinations of Experience and Concoct it not It hath beene obserued by some of the Ancients that Skins especially of ●●ams newly pulled off and applied to the Wounds of Stripts doe keepe them from Swelling and Exulcerating And likewise Heade them and Close them vp And that the Whites of Eggs do the same The Cause is a Temperate Conglutination For both Bodies are Glommy and Viscous and doe bridle the Des●uxe of Humours to the Hu●●● without Penning them in too much You may turne almost all Flesh into a ●●●●●●●●● if you take Flesh and cut it into Peeces and put the Peeces into a Glasse couered with Parchment And so let the Glasse stand six or seuen Houres ●●● Boyling Water It may be an Experiment of Profit for Making of Fat or Grease for many vses But then it must be of such Flesh as is not Edible As Horses Dogs Beares Foxes Bodgers c. It is reported by one of the Ancients that New Wine put into Vessells well stopped and the Vessells let downe into the Sea will accelerate very much the Making of them Ripe and Potable The same would be tried in Wort. Beasts are more Hairy than Men And Sauage Man more than Ciuill And the Plumage of Birds exceedeth the Pilosity of Beasts The Cause of the Smoothnesse in Men is not any Abundance of Heat and Moisture though that indeed causeth Pilosity But there is requisite to Pilosity not so much Heat and Moisture as Excrementitious Heat and Moisture For whatsoeuer assimilateth goeth not into the Haire And Excrementitious Moisture aboundeth most in Beasts and Men that are more Sauage Much the same Reason is there of the Plumage of Birds For Birds assimilate lesse and excerne more than Beasts For their Excrements are euer liquid and their Flesh generally more dry Besides they haue not Instruments for Vrine And so all the Excrementitious Moisture goeth into the Feathers And therefore it is no Maruell though Birds bee commonly better Meat than Beasts because their Flesh doth assimilate more finely and secerneth more subtilly Againe the Head of Man hath Haire vpon the first Birth which no other Part of the Body hath The Cause may be Want of Perspiration For Much of the Matter of Haire in the other Parts of the Body goeth forth by Insensible Perspiration And besides the Skull being of a more solide Substance nourisheth and assimilateth lesse and excerneth more And so likewise doth the Chinne We see also that Haire commeth not vpon the Palmes of the Hands nor Soales of the Feet Which are Parts more Perspirable And Children likewise are not Hairy for that their Skins are more Perspirable Birds are of Swifter Motion than Beasts For the Flight of many Birds is Swifter than the Race of any Beasts The Cause is for that the Spirits in Birds are in greater Proportion in comparison of the Bulke of their Body than in Beasts For as for the Reason that some giue that they are partly Carried whereas Beasts goe that is Nothing For by that Reason Swimming should be swifter than Running And that Kinde of Carriage also is not without Labour of the Wing The Sea is Clearer when the North wind bloweth than when the South-wind The Cause is for that Salt-Water hath a little Oylinesse in the Surface thereof As appeareth in very Hot Daies And againe for that the Southerne Wind relaxeth the Water somewhat As no Water Boyling is so Cleare as Cold Water Fire burneth Wood making it first Luminous Then Blacke and Brittle And lastly Broken and Incinerate Sealding Water doth none of these The Cause is for that by Fire the Spirit of the Body is first Refined and then Emitted Whereof the Refining be Attenuation causeth the Light And the Emission first the Fragilitie and after the Dissolution into Ashes Neither doth any other Body enter But in Water the Spirit of the Body is not Refined so much And besides Part of the Water entreth Which doth increase the Spirit and in a degree extinguish it Therefore wee see that Hot Water will quench Fire And againe wee see that in Bodies wherein the Water doth not much enter but only the Heat passeth Hot Water worketh the Effects of Fire As in Egges Boyled and Roasted into which the Water entreth not at all there is scarce difference to be discerned But in Fruit and Flesh whereinto the Water entreth in some part there is much more difference The Bottome of a Vessell of Boyling Water as hath beene obserued is not very much Heated So as Men may put their Hand vnder the Vessell and remoue it The Cause is for that the Moisture of Water as it quencheth Coales where it entreth So it doth allay Heat where it toucheth And therefore note well that Moisture although it doth not passe thorow Bodies without Communication of some Substance As Heat and Cold doe yet it worketh manifest Effects not by Entrance of the Body but by Qualifying of the Heat and Cold As wee see in this Instance And wee see likewise that the Water of Things distilled in Water which they call the Bath differeth not much from the Water of Things Distilled by Fire Wee see also that Pewter-Dishes

it selfe and there were found in it a Booke and a Letter Both written in fine Parchment and wrapped in Sindons of Linnen The Booke conteined all the Canonicall Bookes of the Old and New Testament according as you haue them For we know well what the Churches with you receiue And the Apocalypse it selfe And Some other Bookes of the New Testament which were not at that time written were neuerthelesse in the Booke And for the Letter it was in these words IBartholomew a Seruant of the Highest and Apostle of IESVS CHRIST was warned by an Angell that appeared to me in a vision of Glory that I should commit this Arke to the flouds of the Sea Therefore I doe testifie and declare vnto that People where GOD shall ordaine this Ark to come to Land that in the same day is come vnto them Saluation and Peace and Good Will from the Father and from the LORD IESVS There was also in both these writings as well the Booke as the Letter wrought a great Miracle Conforme to that of the Apostles in the Originall Gift of Tongues For there being at that time in this Land Hebrewes Persians and Indians besides the Natiues euery one redd vpon the Booke and Letter as if they had been written in his owne Language And thus was this Land saued from Infidelity as the Remaine of the Old World was from Water by an Ark through the Apostolicall and Miraculous Euangelisme of Saint Bartholomew And here hee paused and a Messenger came and called him from vs. So this was all that passed in that Conference The next Day the same Gouernour came againe to vs immediately after Dinner and excused himselfe saying That the Day before he was called from vs somewhat abruptly but now he would make vs amends and spend time with vs if we held his Company and Conference agreeable Wee answered That wee held it so agreeable and pleasing to vs as wee forgot both Dangers past and Feares to come for the time wee heard him speake And that wee thought an Houre spent with him was worth Yeares of our former life He bowed himselfe a little to vs and after we were set againe he said Well the Questions are on your part One of our Number said after a little Pause That there was a Matter wee were no lesse desirous to know then fearefull to aske least wee might presume too farre But encouraged by his rare Humanity towards vs that could scarce thinke our selues Strangers being his vowed and professed Seruants We would take the Hardines to propound it Humbly beseeching him if hee thought it not fit to bee answered that hee would pardon it though he reiected it Wee said VVee well obserued those his words which hee formerly spake that this happy Island wher we now stood was knowne to few and yet knew must of the Nations of the World which we found to be true considering they had the Languages of Europe and knew much of our State and Businesse And yet we in Europe notwithstanding all the remote Discoueries and Nauigations of this last Age neuer heard any of the least Inkling or Glimse of this Island This we found wonderfull strange For that all Nations haue Enterknowledge one of another either by Voyage into Forraigne Parts or by Strangers that come to them And though the Trauailer into a Forreine Countrey doth commonly know more by the Eye then he that stayeth at home can by relation of the Trauailer Yet both wayes suffice to make a mutuall Knowledge in some degree on both parts But for this Island wee neuer heard tell of any Shipp of theirs that had been Seene to arriue vpon any Shore of Europe No nor of either the East or West Indies nor yet of any Shipp of any other part of the World that had made returne from them And yet the Maruell rested not in this For the Situation of it as his Lordship said in the secret Conclaue of such a vast Sea mought cause it But then that they should haue Knowledge of the Languages Bookes Affaires of those that lye such a distance from them it was a thing wee could not tell what to make of For that it seemed to vs a condition and Proprietie of Diuine Powers and Beings to be hidden and vnseene to others and yet to haue others open and as in a light to them At this speach the Gouernour gaue a gracious smile and sayd That we did well to aske pardon for this Question we now asked For that it imported as if we thought this Land a Land of Magicians that sent forth Spirits of the Ayre into all parts to bring them Newes and Intelligence of other Countries It was answered by vs all in all possible humblenes but yet with a Countenance taking knowledge that we knew he spake it but merrily That we were apt enough to think ther was some what supernaturall in this Island but yet rather as Angelicall then Magicall But to let his Lordship know truely what it was that made vs tender and doubtful to aske this Question it was not any such conceit but because we remembred he had giuen a Touch in his former Speach that this Land had Lawes of Secrecy touching Strangers To this he said You remember it aright And therefore in that I shall say to you I must reserue some particulars which it is not lawfull for mee to reueale but there will bee enough left to giue you satisfaction You shall vnderstand that which perhaps you will scarce think credible that about three thousand Yeares agoe or somewhat more the Nauigation of the World specially for remote Voyages was greater then at this Day Doe not thinke with your selues that I know not how much it is encreased with you within these sixescore Years I know it well And yet I say greater then than now Whether it was that the Example of the Ark that saued the Remnant of Men from the vniuersall Deluge gaue Men confidence to aduenture vpon the Waters Or what it was but such is the Truth The Phoeniceans and specially the Tyrians had great Fleetes So had the Carthaginians their Colony which is yet further West Toward the East the Shipping of Egypt and of Palestina was likewise great China also and the great Atlantis that you call America which haue now but Iunks and Canoa's abounded then in tall Ships This Island as appeareth by faithfull Registers of those times had then fifteene hundred strong Ships of great content Of all this there is with you sparing Memory or none But we haue large Knowledge thereof At that time this Land was knowne and frequented by the Shipps and Vessells of all the Nations before named And as it commeth to passe they had many times Men of other Countries that were no Saylers that came with them As Persians Chaldeans Arabians So as almost all Nations of Might and Fame resorted hither Of whom we haue some Stirps and little Tribes with vs at this day And for our owne Ships they