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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

Communicatio● of these Gulphs with the Subterraneous Passages as Kirche● says in his Mundus Subter● T. 1. p. 146. 6. To what Depth the Col● in these Parts pierces the Eart● and Water 7. Whether their Watche● go slower by the intens● Cold. 8. Whether their Oil i● great Colds is turned into true● that is to say hard and brittl● Ice 9. Whether they can freeze there a strong Brine of Bay Salt a strong Solution of Sal Gemmae or Soot or a strong Solution of Salt of Tartar or Sugar of Lead 10. Wether they can Congeal meer Blood all the serous Part thereof being severed Item Canary Wine Solutions of all Salts and strong Solutions of Metals 11. Whether an intense and lasting Frost makes any Alteration in Quicksilver exposed very shallow in a Flat Vessel 12. Whether the Purgative Vertue of Catharticks be increased or diminished or even totally destroyed by a strong continual Cold. 13. Whether Harts-Horns thawed will give the same Quantity of Spirits by the same Method of Distilling which they use to yield when not frozen 14. What Cold operates in the Fermentations of Liquors 15. Whether Birds and wild Beasts grow white there in Winter-Time and recover their Native Colour in Summer 16. Whether Colours may be concentred by Cold e. g. a strong Decoction of Cochineal in a fit Glass 17. Whether the Electrical Virtue of Amber and the Attractive Force of the Magnet be changed by a vehement Cold. 18. Whether Pieces of Iron and Steel even thick ones be made brittle by intense Frosts and therefore Smiths are obliged for prevention to give their Iron and Steel Tools a softer Temper 19. Whether accurate Observations evince That all Fishes dye in frozen Waters if the Ice be not broken where it is diligently to be enquired into Whether the Cold itself or the want of Changing or Ventilating the Water or the privation of Air be the cause of the Death of Fishes 20. Whether any skilful Anatomist has enquired by Freezing to Death some Animals as Rabbets Pullets Dogs Cats c. after what manner it is that intense Cold kills Men whether they have found Ice in the inward Parts as the Brain and Heart and in the greater Vessels Enquiries into Hungary and Transilvania 1. What is observable in Hungary Transilvania and the neighbouring Parts as to Minerals Springs Warm Baths Earths Quarries Metals c. 2. Particularly to enquire into the several Sorts of Antimony or Antimony Ore to be found in Hungary and to inform us of the several Places whence they are digged to the End they may be sent for 3. To enquire where the best Hungarian Vitriol is to be found and the Cinnabaris Nativa 4. To give us a right Account of the right Gold and Silver-Earth-Ore said to be found at Cranach in Hungary whence the Gold is called Cranach Gold first lighted upon by the Care of the Emperour Rudolphus and chymically wrought by his Order and Inspection 5. To enquire and send over some of that kind of Vitriol which by credible Persons is affirmed to be found Crystallized in Transilvania as also after the Vitriol said to yield Gold 6. To inform us of the Salt-Pits in Transilvania said to yield two Sorts of perfect Salt the one being a Sal Gemmae the other a common Table-Salt to observe how deep these Salt-Mines lye from the Surface of the Ground how deep they are digged hitherto and what Damps are met with in them 7. To enquire after the Veins of Gold and Quicksilver at Cremnitz in Hungary and the Vein of Silver at Schemnitz in the same Kingdom 8. To enquire whether the Waters of the Thermae that pass by Schemnitz depose a certain Sediment which in Time turns into a Yellow Stone 9. Whether in the Mines of Gold Silver Copper Iron Lead in Hungary there be generally found Quicksilver and Sulphur 10. Whether it be true That in the Copper-Mines of the Place called Herren-Ground in Hungary there be found no Quicksilver at all 11. Whether it be true that in some Parts of the Vpper-Hungary the Ores of Copper Iron and Lead be sometimes so commixed that there is often found in the upper of the Concrete Matter of Iron in the midst Matter of Copper and in the lowermost Lead and that in other Parts of the Country Copperish Fluors are mixed with leaden ones 12. Whether it be true what Athanasius Kircher writes from Relation That the Ductus of Metals do sometimes run North and South and sometimes cross-ways 13. Whether it is true what Busbequius reports of a River in Hungary whose Water is so hot and yet so full of Fish that he saith one would expect that all the Fish drawn thence would come out boyl'd 14. Whether there be Springs about Buda or Alba Regalis that rise at the Bottom of the River so hot that those who go to bath dare not put their Feet so low as the Sand for fear of having them Parboyl'd 15. Whether there be in Hungary an Avernus that exhaleth always such poysonous Steams that Birds flying over it do oftentime fall down ei-Stupifyed or quite Dead what are the particulars of this as to Taste Smell Colour Heat or Cold whether any Waters run into it and what Minerals are found near about it to which these Qualities can be mostly attributed 16. Whether the Iron that is said to be turned to Copper by the Vitriolate Springs at Cremnitz or Smolnitz in Hungary do after that Transmutation or Precipitation contain a pretty deal of Gold 17. Whether the depth of the Gold-Mines of Hungary be two thousand four hundred Feet 18. What Quantity of Gold is got out of an hundred weight of Ore and whether it be got alone or mixed with other Metals in the Ore 19. Whether they find Trees or any other Salt in the solid Salt of their Salt-Mines 20. Whether there be a great Lake in Moravia whence the Waters at a certain Time of the Year are all drawn away by great Holes in the middle of it leading through subterraneous Passes and that so suddenly that the Fish are left on the Ground which afterward becomes good Pasture for another part of the Year the Waters then returning by the same Passages they went out and that with so much Force that it rises like a Jet of Water 21. Whether it is true That in some parts of Hungary near the Gold-Mines the Leaves of their Trees have their lower Superficies if not their upper also gilded over with yellowish Exhalations 22. What is the way said to be used in Hungary and Austria of extracting the Perfect Metals out of their Minera's without Lead performed by casting a Powder upon the Minera which makes a quick and advantagious Separation Sulphur being supposed to be an Ingredient of it Enquiries for Suratte c. 1. Whether it be true that Diamonds and other Precious Stones do grow again after three Years in the same Places where they have been digged out 2. Whether the Quarries of