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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28984	General heads for the natural history of a country great or small drawn out for the use of travellers and navigators / imparted by ... Robert Boyle ...; to which is added, other directions for navigators, etc. with particular observations of the most noted countries in the world ; by another hand.	Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691.	1692 (1692)	Wing B3980; ESTC R16299	33,190	146

Black and VVhite Spots on their Backs be not Venomous to send over some of such Serpent's Skins 27. To send over some of the Skins of those huge Lizzards called Ovayamaca which when come to their full Bigness are said to be five Foot long Tail and all and especially that are said to have the Scales of their Skins so Bright and Curious that they resemble Cloath of Gold and Silver 28. VVhere the shining Flees called Cucuyes hide almost all their Light when taken but when at Liberty afford it plentifully 29. VVhether there be a sort of Bees Brown and Blue who make a Black VVax but the Honey in it VVhiter and Sweeter than that of Europe 30. VVhether in those Parts the Indians do cure the Bitings of Serpents by eating fresh Citron-Pills and by applying the Unguent made of the bruised Head of the VVounding Serpent and put hot upon the VVound 31. VVhether the VVood-Lice in those Countries generated out of Rotten VVood are able not only to eat through Trunks in a Day or two and to spoil Linnen Cloaths and Books of which last they are said only to spare what is written or Printed but also to support the Props which Support the Cottages that they fall and whether the Remedy against the latter Mischief is To turn the Ends of the Wood that are fixed in the Ground or to rub the VVood with the Oil of that kind of Palma Christi a Plant wherewith the Natives rub their Heads to secure them from Vermin 32. Whether that Sort of Vermine they meet with commonly called Ravets spare nothing of what they meet with either of Paper Cloaths Linnen and Wollen but Silk and Cotten 33. Whether the little Cirons called Chiques bred out of Dust when they pierce once into the Feet and under the Nails of the Toes do get ground of the whole Body unless they be drawn out by times and whether at first they cause but a little but afterwards having pierced the Skin raise a great Inflammation in the Part affected and become in a small Time as big as a Pease producing innumerable Nits that breed others Enquiries for Greenland 1. What and how much is the Heat of the Sun there in the midst of Summer compared with the Heat of it in England to be observed with a Thermometer 2. What is the most constant Weather there in Summer whether Clear Cloudy Rainy Foggy c. 3. What Weather is most usual at such and such Times of the Year 4. What Constancy or Unconstancy there is of the Wind to this or that Quarter of the Horizon or to this or that Part of the Year 5. What the Temperature o● each particular Wind is observed to be and particularly whether the North-Wind be th● Coldest if not what Wind is whether is Colder the East or the West c. 6. What Wind is observed to bring most Ice and what to make a Clear Water at Sea 7. What Currents are there how fast and which Way they set whether these Currents are not stronger at one Time of the the Moon than of another whether they always run one way 8. What is observable about the Tides High Spring or Neap How high the Water-Mark is above the Low-Water which way it Floweth which way it Ebbeth what Time of the ●oon the Spring-Tides fall ●●t 9. Whether the Ice that ●●oats in the Sea be of Salt Wa●er or Fresh 10. What Rivers there are in the Summer and what Fresh Waters can be had 11. What Fowl are found so live there and what Beasts how they are thought to subsist in Winter how they Breed and Feed their Young 12. What Vegetables grow there and whether they yield any Flowers or Fruits c. 13. Whether there have been any Thunder or Lightning observed in those Parts as is observed in Norway 14. How deep the Cold penetrates into the Earth and whether there be any Wells Pits or Mines so deep that the Cold does not reach the Bottom thereof 15. How the Land tends and whether the Parts under or near the Pole be by those that have gone furthest that way thought to be Sea or Land and how near any hath been known to approach the Pole whether the Cold increaseth with the increase of Latitude 16. To make if possible some Experiments and Observations about the Magnet or Needle and particularly how much the Declination is there and whether they exactly observe the Degrees of Declination in their Course likewise to make Observations about the Heighth of the Sun and other Celestial Bodies and their Diameter Refractions c. 17. What is their Opinion concerning the North East Passage 18. What Fish do most frequent those Seas besides Whales what is observable in their Fishing as the usual or unusual Bigness and Strength and the several Sorts of Whales and particularly to observe Whether that kind of Whale they call Trompa have in their Heads the Sperma Coeti and in their Entrals the Ambergreese looking like Cows Dung Purchas 19. What observable Difference there is of the Coldness of the VVind when it blows over great Boards of Ice that are seen in these Seas and when not 20. To give an exact account of the VVhale-fishing throwing the Harping-Irons following the Fish 21. To describe the whole manner of making the Oil of VVhale THE INDEX A. AIR pag. 3 21 Animals 8 Axungiae 10 Allom ibid. Apparitions 11 Air-Shafts 27 Armenians 60 Amianthus 61 Amber Yellow of Egypt 70 Appearances of Legs and Arms reported to be near Cairo 72 Antimony Avernus 84 Ambergreeco 89 Arbor Triste 97 Arbre de Rays ibid. Animal giving Musk 98 Argilla Green 108 Acajou Tree 110 B. Barascope travelling 4 Boles 10 Brooks 21 Bodnick-Sea pag. 76 Betels 96 Barks used for Tiles 104 Clays C 10 24 Coals 10 Comets 15 Countreys 19 Product 20 Copper compleat in the Mine 33 Caulk 35 Candia 61 Cyprus ibid. Constantinople ibid. Cephalenia ibid. Caucasus 62 Caspian Sea 63 China ibid. Dishes 92 City petrified 64 Cotton-bearing-Tree 71 Crocodiles ibid. Children of the 8th Month in Egypt 72 Concentration of Colours 78 Copper-Mines 82 Coast of Cormandel 89 Catopa 94 Calamba Wood 95 Cinnamon-Tree Root yielding Oil of Camphire ibid. Cabala a Fish pag. 99 Cereiba-Tree 107 Canides a Bird 117 Colibri a Bird ibid. Crabs Land 118 Cucuyes a shining Flee 120 Citron-Pills ibid. D. Diseases 4 Damps their Signs Hurts and Preventions 16 25 29 Drugs from Egypt 72 Diamonds growing after three Years 87 Dutroy 96 Dart-Herb 114 E Earth 7 24 of Egypt 68. its Inhabitants 9 Earths Soap 10 Euxin Sea 62 Euripi 62 Eggs Hatching in Egypt 69 Gold and Silver Earth 81 Earths in Bermudoes 102 F Fishes 6 Fires Subterraneous 8 Fullers-Earth 10 Flux-Powders pag. 41 Furnaces ibid. Fewel ibid. About Freezing 76 77 Fishes under Ice 73 Freezing of Animals ibid. Flux for Metals 86 Fishing of Pearls 88 Fountain of Oil in Sumatra 89 Fregats a Bird 117 G Grooves their Depth and Wideness 26 27

Stone near Fettipore not far from Agra in the Mogul's Dominions may be cleft like Logs and sawn like Planks to ciel Chambers and cover Houses therewith Likewise whether about Sadrapatan on the Coast of Cormandel there be a Stone of the like Nature so as seting a Wedge upon it one may cleave it with a Mallet as thick or as thin as one pleaseth and whether it be of the Nature of our Fire-stone that is prepared by the Stone-Cutters for Ovens 3. Whether upon the same Coast of Cormandel about Toutoucourin and that of Ceylan at Manar and Jafanapatan they fish Pearls as good as those about Ormus whether those Pearls are the better the deeper they lye what is the greatest depth they are known to have been taken at and whether it be true that some of the Natives there can stay under Water half an Hour without any Art 4. Whether the Iron in Pegu and Japan be far better than ours and if so what is to be observ'd in Melting Forging and Tempering of it 5. Whether in Sumatra there be a Fountain running a very Sanative Oil and whether the Ignivomous Mountain in the same Country do burn Continually and cast out Stones so eaten by the Fire that they Swim 6. What is the Opinion of the more Inquisitive Men in these Parts of Ambergris and whether the greatest Quantities of it are found about the Isle Mauritius 7. Whether it be Winter on the East-side of the Mountain Gates which comes from the North Cape Comorin whilst it is Summer on the West-side and so vice versa 8. Whether it be true That upon the Coast of Coromandel sixteen Degrees Northern Latitude between Paeleacate and Maselupatan fifty Leagues in length the Hot Winds blowing from the Landward from eight in the Morning till four in the Afternoon with such a suffocating Heat that the Inhabitants are not able to endure it without extraordinary Helps and Refreshment Every one for his Provision of Drink daily hangs his Bottle made of common Pot-Earth and filled with Well water or other potable Liquor upon some Post Tree or Wall in places where the Sun and Wind are most piercing leaving it all the Day long there in the scorching Heat and then taking it up abour four a Clock in the Evening the Drink is more cool than any Depth of Cellaridge can make it And whether on the contrary the Bottles being suffered to continue in the Air as before during the Cool Sea-Gales which come in after the said Hour and continue all Night till eight in the Morning to the Refreshment of all Creatures the Liquors grow hot and unfit for Drink 9. Whether the Tide near Mindana going from the Molucca's to the Philippina's are so swift that neither contrary Winds nor Anchors can save a Ship from being carried away by it and that it rises about three or four Feet and whether the like be observ'd in the Bay of Cambaia and in that between Martagan and Pegu And particularly whether in the said Bays the Tides come in with that Impetuosity and Swiftness about the Quarters of the Moon that the Watch-Men from High-Towers must give Warning to the People to retire and that a Horse in his swiftest Course when such a Tide comes upon it cannot out run it as Isaac Vossius observes lib. de motu Marium Ventorum c. 15. And what other Particulars are observable in all these Coasts about the Tides 10. Whether there be any Discoveries newer than the newest Painted Maps of the Parts of the World North-East of Japan and whether Japan be truly an Island or no. 11. What is the true way of Making and Colouring China-Dishes and how in China and Japan they make the Black Varnish 12. With what Materials and how they paint on Cloath commonly called Pintados and likewise upon Canvas c. 13. Whether Lignum Aloes be the Wood or Root of a Tree In what Country it is found and how to know the best of the kind 14. Whether the best Tea be that which comes forth at the first of the Spring and are the Top-Leaves in what manner 't is dry'd and whether the too hasty drying thereof hurts it 15. Whether there grows a Wood in Java that naturally smells like Human Excrements and if so what kind of Ground it grows in 16. Whether in the Malacca Islands there be a Red Wood which Burns Sparkles and Flames without being consumed yet may be reduced to Powder by rubbing between ones Fingers 17. Whether near the Fort of Ternate there be a Plant called by the Inhabitants Catopa whence fall little Leaves which are turned into Butterflies 18. Whether in Pegu and other Places they use a Poyson that kills by smelling and yet the Poysonous Smell is hardly perceived 19. Whether it be true That the only Antidote hitherto known against the Famous and Fatal Macassar Poyson is Human Ordure taken inwardly and what Substance that Poyson is made of 20. Whether there be such a Vegetable in Java called Mangas Bravas that is so poysonous that it kills presently and for which no Remedy hath been yet found 21. Where the best Calumba-Wood or Palo d'Aquila grows whether the Palo d'Aquila be much inferior to Calamba and how they are distinguish'd whether the latter be the Pith of the former whence the best Sort comes whether it be stored with a Rich and Cordial Balm and that be the Cause of its great Rate being much used in the Decay of Spirits and the Lameness and Impotency of Nerves 22. Whether they draw an Oil resembling Oil of Camphire from the Roots of the Cinnamon-Tree and how they draw it 23. Whether the Camphire of Borneo be not the Exudation or Gum of a Tree 24. Whether the Indians can so prepare that stupifying Herb called Dutroa or Datura that they make it lye several Days Months and Years according as they design it in a Man's Body without doing him any Hurt and at the end kill him without missing an Hour's Time 25. Whether the Betele hath such a contrariety to the Durion that a few Leaves of that put to a whole Shopful of Durions will make them all rot suddenly and whether those that have surfeited on Durions and thereby over-heated themselves do by laying a Leaf or two of Betele upon their Breasts or Stomachs immediately cure the Inflammations and Recover 26. Whether the Papayas which bear Fruit like a Melon do not bear unless Male and Female as the Vulgar distinguishes them stand together 27. Whether there be two Sorts of Trees called Arbor Triste one by the Name of Triste di Die the other Triste di Notte whereof the former sheds his Flowers at the Rising the other at the Setting of the Sun and whether the distilled Water thereof called Aqua di Mogli by the Portugals may not be transported into these Parts 28. Whether one of these Trees called Arbre de Rays propagates itself into a whole Forest by shouting up and letting fall Roots