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cause_n	body_n	part_n	time_n	1,743	5	3.4636	3	false

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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