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Certain miscellany tracts written by Thomas Brown.
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Browne, Thomas, Sir, 1605-1682.
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nomen nullum testimonium tempus aut fortunam exponebant and not very long ago as Cambden delivereth in one of the Mounts of Barklow Hills in Essex being levelled there were found three Troughs containing broken Bones conceived to have been of Danes and in later time we find that a Burrow was opened in the Isle of Man wherein fourteen Urns were found with burnt Bones in them and one more neat than the rest placed in a Bed of fine white Sand containing nothing but a few brittle Bones as having passed the Fire according to the particular account thereof in the description of the Isle of Man Surely many noble Bones and Ashes have been contented with such hilly Tombs which neither admitting Ornament Epitaph or Inscription may if Earthquakes spare them out last all other Monuments Suae sunt Metis metae Obelisks have their term and Pyramids will tumble but these mountainous Monuments may stand and are like to have the same period with the Earth More might be said but my business of another nature makes me take off my hand I am Yours c. TRACT X. OF TROAS What place is meant by that Name Also of the situations of Sodom Gomorrha Admah Zeboim in the dead Sea SIR To your Geographical Queries I answer as follows IN sundry passages of the new Testament in the Acts of the Apostles and Epistles of S. Paul we meet with the word Troas how he went from Troas to Philippi in Macedonia from thence unto Troas again how he remained seven days in that place from thence on foot to Assos whither the Disciples had sailed from Troas and there taking him in made their Voyage unto Caesarea Now whether this Troas be the name of a City or a certain Region seems no groundless doubt of yours for that 't was sometimes taken in the signification of some Country is acknowledged by Ortelius Stephanus and Grotius and it is plainly set down by Strabo that a Region of Phrygia in Asia minor was so taken in ancient times and that at the Trojan War all the Territory which comprehended the nine Principalities subject unto the King of Ilium 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 was called by the name of Troja And this might seem sufficiently to salve the intention of the description when he came or went from Troas that is some part of that Region and will otherwise seem strange unto many how he should be said to go or come from that City which all Writers had laid in the Ashes about a thousand years before All which notwithstanding since we reade in the Text a particular abode of seven days and such particulars as leaving of his Cloak Books and Parchments at Troas And that S. Luke seems to have been taken in to the Travels of S. Paul in this place where he begins in the Acts to write in the first person this may rather seem to have been some City or special Habitation than any Province or Region without such limitation Now that such a City there was and that of no mean note is easily verified from historical observation For though old Ilium was anciently destroyed yet was there another raised by the relicts of that people not in the same place but about thirty Furlongs westward as is to be learned from Strabo Of this place Alexander in his Expedition against Darius took especial notice endowing it with sundry Immunities with promise of greater matters at his return from Persia inclined hereunto from the honour he bore unto Homer whose earnest Reader he was and upon whose Poems by the help of Anaxarchus and Callisthenes he made some observations As also much moved hereto upon the account of his cognation with the Aeacides and Kings of Molossus whereof Andromache the Wife of Hector was Queen After the death of Alexander Lysimachus surrounded it with a Wall and brought the inhabitants of the neighbour Towns unto it and so it bore the name of Alexandria which from Antigonus was also called Antigonia according to the inscription of that famous Medal in Goltsius Colonia Troas Antigonia Alexandrea Legio vicesima prima When the Romans first went into Asia against Antiochus 't was but a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and no great City but upon the Peace concluded the Romans much advanced the same Fimbria the rebellious Roman spoiled it in the Mithridatick War boasting that he had subdued Troy in eleven days which the Grecians could not take in almost as many years But it was again re-built and countenanced by the Romans and became a Roman Colony with great Immunities conferred on it and accordingly it is so set down by Ptolomy For the Romans deriving themselves from the Trojans thought no favour too great for it especially Julius Caesar who both in imitation of Alexander and for his own descent from Julus of the posterity of Aeneas with much passion affected it and in a discontented humour was once in mind to translate the Roman wealth unto it so that it became a very remarkable place and was in Strabo's time 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 one of the noble Cities of Asia And if they understood the prediction of Homer in reference unto the Romans as some expound it in Strabo it might much promote their affection unto that place which being a remarkable prophecy and scarce to be parallel'd in Pagan story made before Rome was built and concerning the lasting Reign of the progeny of Aeneas they could not but take especial notice of it For thus is Neptune made to speak when he saved Aeneas from the fury of Achilles Verum agite hunc subito praesenti à morte trahamus Ne Cronides ira flammet si fortis Achilles Hunc mactet fati quem Lex evadere jussit Ne genus intereat de laeto semine totum Dardani ab excelso prae cunctis prolibus olim Dilecti quos è mortali stirpe creavit Nunc etiam Priami stirpem Saturnius odit Trojugenum posthaec Aeneas sceptra tenebit Et nati natorum qui nascentur ab illis The Roman favours were also continued unto S. Paul's days for Claudius producing an ancient Letter of the Romans unto King Seleucus concerning the Trojan Privileges made a Release of their Tributes and Nero elegantly pleaded for their Immunities and remitted all Tributes unto them And therefore there being so remarkable a City in this Territory it may seem too hard to loose the same in the general name of the Country and since it was so eminently favoured by Emperours enjoying so many Immunities and full of Roman Privileges it was probably very populous and a fit abode for S. Paul who being a Roman Citizen might live more quietly himself and have no small number of faithfull well-wishers in it Yet must we not conceive that this was the old Troy or re-built in the same place with it for Troas was placed about thirty Furlongs West and upon the Sea shore so that to hold a clearer apprehension hereof than
and full of Ice and so gave over the attempt But of late years by the diligent enquiry of some Moscovites a better discovery is made of these parts and a Map or Chart made of them Thereby Nova Zembla is found to be no Island extending very far Northward but winding Eastward it joineth to the Tartarian Continent and so makes a Peninsula and the Sea between it which they entred at Waygatz is found to be but a large Bay apt to be frozen by reason of the great River of Oby and other fresh Waters entring into it whereas the main Sea doth not freez upon the North of Zembla except near unto Shores so that if the Moscovites were skilfull Navigatours they might with less difficulties discover this passage unto China but however the English Dutch and Danes are now like to attempt it again But this is Conjecture and not Prophecy and so I know you will take it I am Sir c. TRACT XIII MUSAEUM CLAUSUM OR Bibliotheca Abscondita Containing Some remarkable Books Antiquities Pictures and Rarities of several kinds scarce or never seen by any man now living SIR WITH many thanks I return that noble Catalogue of Books Rarities and Singularities of Art and Nature which you were pleased to communicate unto me There are many Collections of this kind in Europe And besides the printed accounts of the Musaeum Aldrovandi Calceolarianum Moscardi Wormianum the Casa Abbellita at Loretto and Threasor of S. Dennis the Repository of the Duke of Tuscany that of the Duke of Saxony and that noble one of the Emperour at Vienna and many more are of singular note Of what in this kind I have by me I shall make no repetition and you having already had a view thereof I am bold to present you with the List of a Collection which I may justly say you have not seen before The Title is as above Musaeum Clausum or Bibliotheca Abscondita containing some remarkable Books Antiquities Pictures and Rarities of several kinds scarce or never seen by any man now living 1. Rare and generally unknown Books 1. A Poem of Ovidius Naso written in the Getick Language during his exile at Tomos found wrapt up in Wax at Sabaria on the Frontiers of Hungary where there remains a tradition that he died in his return towards Rome from Tomos either after his pardon or the death of Augustus 2. The Letter of Quintus Cicero which he wrote in answer to that of his Brother Marcus Tullius desiring of him an account of Britany wherein are described the Country State and Manners of the Britains of that Age. 3. An Ancient British Herbal or description of divers Plants of this Island observed by that famous Physician Scribonius Largus when he attended the Emperour Claudius in his Expedition into Britany 4. An exact account of the Life and Death of Avicenna confirming the account of his Death by taking nine Clysters together in a fit of the Colick and not as Marius the Italian Poet delivereth by being broken-upon the Wheel left with other Pieces by Benjamin Tudelensis as he travelled from Saragossa to Jerusalem in the hands of Abraham Jarchi a famous Rabbi of Lunet near Montpelier and found in a Vault when the Walls of that City were demolished by Lewis the Thirteenth 5. A punctual relation of Hannibal's march out of Spain into Italy and far more particular than that of Livy where about he passed the River Rhodanus or Rhosne at what place he crossed the Isura or L'isere when he marched up toward the confluence of the Sone and the Rhone or the place where the City Lyons was afterward built how wisely he decided the difference between King Brancus and his Brother at what place he passed the Alpes what Vinegar he used and where he obtained such quantity to break and calcine the Rocks made hot with Fire 6. A learned Comment upon the Periplus of Hanno the Carthaginian or his Navigation upon the Western Coast of Africa with the several places he landed at what Colonies he settled what Ships were scattered from his Fleet near the Aequinoctial Line which were not afterward heard of and which probably fell into the Trade Winds and were carried over into the Coast of America 7. A particular Narration of that famous Expedition of the English into Barbary in the ninety fourth year of the Hegira so shortly touched by Leo Africanus whither called by the Goths they besieged took and burnt the City of Arzilla possessed by the Mahometans and lately the seat of Gayland with many other exploits delivered at large in Arabick lost in the Ship of Books and Rarities which the King of Spain took from Siddy Hamet King of Fez whereof a great part were carried into the Escurial and conceived to be gathered out of the relations of Hibnu Nachu the best Historian of the African Affairs 8. A Fragment of Pythaeas that ancient Traveller of Marseille which we suspect not to be spurious because in the description of the Northern Countries we find that passage of Pythaeas mentioned by Strabo that all the Air beyond Thule is thick condensed and gellied looking just like Sea Lungs 9. A Sub Marine Herbal describing the several Vegetables found on the Rocks Hills Valleys Meadows at the bottom of the Sea with many sorts of Aiga Fucus Quercus Polygonum Gramens and others not yet described 10. Some Manuscripts and Rarities brought from the Libraries of Aethiopia by Zaga Zaba and afterward transported to Rome and scattered by the Souldiers of the Duke of Bourbon when they barbarously sacked that City 11. Some Pieces of Julius Scaliger which he complains to have been stoln from him sold to the Bishop of Mende in Languedock and afterward taken away and sold in the Civil Wars under the Duke of Rohan 12. A Comment of Dioscorides upon Hyppocrates procured from Constantinople by Amatus Lusitanus and left in the hands of a Jew of Ragusa 13. Marcus Tullius Cicero his Geography as also a part of that magnified Piece of his De Republica very little answering the great expectation of it and short of Pieces under the same name by Bodinus and Tholosanus 14. King Mithridates his Oneirocritica Aristotle de Precationibus Democritus de his quae fiunt apud Orcum Oceani circumnavigatio Epicurus de Pietate A Tragedy of Thyestes and another of Medea writ by Diogenes the Cynick King Alfred upon Aristotle de Plantis Seneca's Epistles to S. Paul King Solomon de Umbris Idaearum which Chicus Asculanus in his Comment upon Johannes de Sacrobosco would make us believe he saw in the Library of the Duke of Bavaria 15. Artemidori Oneirocritici Geographia Pythagoras de Mari Rubro The Works of Confutius the famous Philosopher of China translated into Spanish 16. Josephus in Hebrew written by himself 17. The Commentaries of Sylla the Dictatour 18. A Commentary of Galen upon the Plague of Athens described by Thucydides 19. Duo Caesaris Anti-Catones or the two notable