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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28477	A natural history containing many not common observations extracted out of the best modern writers / by Sir Thomas Pope Blount, Baronet.	Blount, Thomas Pope, Sir, 1649-1697.	1693 (1693)	Wing B3351; ESTC R17881	141,855	470

Fringe at each end being three Inches more so that the whole was just a Foot in length and the breadth was just half a Foot There were two Proofs of its resisting Fire given at London One before some of the Members of the R. Society privately Aug. 20.1684 when Oyl was permitted to be poured upon it whilst red hot to enforce the Violence of the Fire Before it was put into the Fire this First Tryal it weighed one Ounce Six Drams Sixteen Grains and lost in the burning Two Drams Five Grains The Second Experiment of it was publick before the SOCIETY Nov. 12. following when it weighed as appears by the Iournal of the SOCIETY before it was put into the Fire One Ounce Three Drams 18 Grains Being put into a clear Charcoal Fire it was permitted to continue Red hot in it for several Minutes When taken out though red hot it did not consume a piece of White Paper on which it was laid It was presently Cool and upon weighing it again was found to have lost one Dram Six Grains PHILOS TRANSACT Numb 172. That this LINNEN was very well known to the Ancients beside that of Pliny we have the further Testimony of Caelius Rhodiginus who agrees with the aforesaid Account in Mr. Waites Letter to Dr. Plot placing both the Materials and Manufacture of it in India and Paulus Venetus more particularly in Tartary the Emperour whereof He says sent a piece of it to Pope Alexander It is also mentioned by Varro and Turnebus in his Commentary upon him De lingua Latina And by all of them as a thing inconsumable by Fire In these latter Ages Georg. Agricola tells us that there was a Mantle of this LINNEN at Vereburg in Saxony and Simon Majolus says He saw another of it at Lovain exposed to the Fire Salmuth also acquaints us that one ●odocattarus a Cyprian Knight shew'd it publickly at Venice throwing it into the Fire without scruple or hurt and Mr. Lassells saw a piece of it in the Curious Cabinet of Manfred Septalla Canon of Milan Mr. Ray was shew'd a Purse of it by the Prince Palatin at Heidleberg which he saw put into a Pan of burning Charcoal till it was red hot which when taken out and cool he could not perceive had receiv'd any harm and we are told in the Burgundian Philosophy of a long Rope of it sent from Signior Bocconi to the French King and kept by Monsieur Marchand in the King's Gardens at Paris which tho' steeped in Oyle and put in the Fire is not consumed To which add that we have now seen a piece of this LINNEN pass the fiery Trial both at London and Oxford So that it seems to have been known in all Ages all describing it after the same manner as a thing so insuperable by Fire that it only Cleanses and makes it better Dr. ROB. PLOT in the PHILOS TRANSACT Numb 172. The said Dr. saith that this INCOMBUSTIBLE CLOTH is now of no Mean value even in the Country where made a China Covet that is a piece 23 Inches and three Quarters long being worth 80 Tale that is Thirty Six Pounds Thirteen Shillings and four pence PVRCHAS saith that in Fanfur a Kingdom of Iava in the East-Indies there is a Tree of a great bigness and length the Pit● whereof is Meal which they put in water and stir well the lightest dross swimming and the purest settling to the bottom and then the water being cast away they makethere of Paste which tasts just like Barly Bread The Wood of this Tree thrown into water sinks like Tron hereof they make Lances but short for if they were long they would be too heavy for use These they sharpen and burn at the tops which so prepar'd will pierce Armour sooner than if they were made of Iron PVRCH. Pilg. Vol. 3. Pag. ●04 In great Iava they say there is a Tree 〈◊〉 Pith is Iron It is very small ●et runs from the top to the bottom of the Plant. The Fruit that grows on it is not to be pierc'd with Iron IVL. SCALIG Exercit. 181. Sect. 27. In the Island C●mbubon there grows a Tree whose Leaves fallen upon the ground do move and creep It hath Leaves like the Mulberry Tree They have on both sides that which looks like two little feet pressed they yield no Liquor If you touch them they flye from you One of them kept eight days in a Dish liv'd and moved as oft as one touch'd it IVL. SCALIG Exercit. 112. The SENSITIVE PLANT is somewhat of this Nature which contracts it self if any one puts his hand to it and if you pull back your hand it recovers it self again Observations concerning MOVNTAINS SOme have thought that MOUNTAINS and all other Irregularities in the Earth have rise from Earthquakes and such like Causes Others have thought that they came from the Vniversal Deluge ye● not from any Dissolution of the Earth that was then but only from the great agitation of the Waters which broke the ground into this rude and unequal Form Both these Causes seem to me very incompetent and insufficient Earthquakes seldom make MOUNTAINS they often take them away and sink them down into the Caverns that lie under them Besides Earthquakes are not in all Countries and Climats as MOUNTAINS are for as we have observ'd more than once there is neither Island that is Original nor Continent any where in the Earth in what Latitude soever but hath MOUNTAINS and Rocks in it And lastly what probability is there or how is it credible that those vast Tracts of Land which we see fill'd with MOUNTAINS both in Europe Asia and Africa were rais'd by Earthquakes or any Eruptions from below In what Age of the World was this done and why not continued As for the Deluge I dou●t not but MOUNTAINS were made in the time of the General Deluge that great Change and Transformation of the Earth happen'd then but not from such Causes as are pretended that is the bare rowling and agitation of the Waters For if the Earth was smooth and plain before the Flood as they seem to suppose as well as we do the Waters could have little or no power over a smooth Surface to tear it any way in pieces no more than they do a Meadow or low Ground when they lie upon it for that which makes Torrents and Land Floods violent is their fall from the MOUNTAINS and high Lands which our Earth is now full of but if the Rain fell upon even and Level Ground it would only sadden and compress it there is no possibility how it should raise MOUNTAINS in it And if we could imagine an Vniversal Deluge as the Earth is now constituted it would rather throw down the Hills and MOUNTAINS than raise new ones or by beating down their Tops and loose parts help to fill the Valleys and bring the Earth nearer to evenness and plainness Seeing then there are no hopes of Explaining the Origin of MOUNTAINS

as it takes up Then for the space of Fifteen Days it remains immoveable and is cover'd with a Skin of Film like that which covers the Fruit of the Pine-Tree under its Shell and which appears not till after that is broken But these Fifteen Days being ove● of which those will abate some who are desirous to make advantage of the SILK and trouble not themselves what becomes of the Grain the SILK-WORM though it seem'd to have been dead breaks through its Web and comes out in the form of a White and Horned BUTTERFLY bearing a certain Image of the Resurrection then coming together the Male which is smaller coupling with the Female that is bigger the latter sheds her Seed upon a clean Paper spread under her for the Reception of it The Seed being carefully put into a Box. is either kept for the next Year or sold by the Ounce they commonly keep as much as comes from a Hundred Males and so many Females the Grain or Seed whereof before their Copulation is barren Now if they be desirous to get SILK out of it which is the principle Advantage in order to which the Worms are kept about Fifteen Days after they are compleated these Webs are cast into Water somewhat better than luke-warm and the Women and Children employ'd about that Work stir the Water with an handful of Birch till they have fasten'd on Seven or Eight Ends of SILK which having done they wind it up into Skains and that is the Raw SILK PHILOS CONFER of the VIRTUOSI of France Vol. 2. Pag. 402 403 404. 'T is to be imagin'd that the use of SILK was absolutely unknown to the Iews especially when we consider that in the Works of that of the Worm the Head of the Fly But Sig. Malpighius makes no mention hereof neither is it any way likely to be so GREW's Mus. Reg. Soc. Pag. 176. An Ingenious Gentlewoman of my Acquaintance Wise to a Learned Phisician taking much Pleasure to keep SILK-WORMS had once the Curiosity to draw out one of the Oval Cases which the SILK-WORM Spins not as 't is commonly thought out of its Belly but out of the Mouth whence I have taken Pleasure to draw it out with my Fingers into all the SILKENWire it was made up of which to the great Wonder as well of her Husband as her self who both inform'd me of it appear'd to be by Measure a great deal above Three Hundred Yards and yet weighed but two Grains and a half So that each Cylindrically shap'd Grain of SILK may well be reckon'd to be at least One Hundred and Twenty Yards long ROB BOTLE of E●fluviums Pag. XI Observations concerning SNAKES SERPENTS or VIPRRS IN Barbadoes there are SNAKES about a Yard and a half long that will slide up the Perpendicular Wall of a House out of one Room into another A greater agility without Feet than we see in most Creatures that have Four Much helped as it should seem by their great length whereby they can in an instant reduce themselves into so many more undulations for their better ascent GREW's Mus. REG. SOC In Brasile saith Iob. de Laet there are SNAKES found sometimes 25 or 30 Foot long They have also a sort of SERPENT call'd the RATTLE-SNAKE from the Rattle at the end of his Tail By this Rattle those that Travel through the Fields or along the High-Ways are warned to avoid coming near so noxious a Creature For those He also observes that where● commonly it hath hitherto bee● believ'd that the Poyson of VIPERS being swallow'd was prese● D●ath He after many reiterate Experiments tells us that in V●PERS there is neither Humou● nor Excrement nor any part nay not the Gall it self that being taken into the Body kills And H● assures us that he has seen Me● eat and has often made Brute Animals swallow all that is esteem'd most poysonous in a VIPER ye● without the least Mischief to them● And therefore what some Author have affirm'd viz. That it is Mortal to eat of the Flesh of Creature kill'd by VIPERS Or to drink o● the Wine wherein VIPERS hav● been drown'd Or to such the Wounds that have been made by them is by this Author observ'd to be utterly salse For He affirms That many Persons have eaten Pullets and Pigeons bitten by VIPERS without finding any alteration from it in their Health On the contrary He declares That it is a Soveraign Remedy against the biting of VIPERS to suck the Wound alleadging an Experiment made upon a Dog which he caus'd to be bitten by a VIPER at the Nose who by licking his own Wound sav'd his Life Which He affirms by the Example of those People Celebrated in History by the Name of Marsi and Psilli whose Employment it was to heal those that had been bitten by SERPENTS by sucking their Wounds Again He adds That altho Galen and many Modern Physicians do affirm that there is nothing which causeth so much Thirst as VIPERS-Flesh yet he hath Experimented the contrary and known divers Persons who were wont to eat the Flesh of VIPERS every Meal and yet did assure him They never were less dry than when they observ'd that kind of Diet. the Experiment and found no such matter Whereupon I got leave in the absence of the Family to inclose my SNAKE in the Court before the Right Honourable the Lord Anglesey's House to see what time would produce leaving the Gardener in trust to observe it strictly who found it indeed after three Weeks time dead without any sensible external hurt How this should come to pass is a Question indeed not easie to determine but certainly it must not be ascrib'd to the Talismanical Figure of the Stone Ophiomorphites to be found about Adderbury and in most Blue Clays whereof there are plenty in this Country Since these are to be met with about Oxford too and many other places where there are SNAKES enough Beside we are inform'd by Cardan that Albertus Magnus had a Stone that being naturally markt with the Figure of a SERPENT had this no less admirable than contrary Virtue that if it were put into a place that was haunted with SERPENTS it would draw them all to it Much rather may we subscribe to the Cause assigned by Pliny who seems confidently to assert that the Earth that is Blackish and standeth much upon Salt-Peter is freer from Vermin than any other To which we may add if need be Sulphur and Vitriol whereof there is plenty in these parts of the Country but whether by One Two or All these though we dare not pronounce yet that it is caused by some such Mineral Steam disagreeable to the Animal I think we may be Confident PLOT of Oxfordshire pag. 187. My Father in his Voyage to the Levant giving an Account of what he observ'd in Egypt has among other remarkable Things this passage Many Rarities of living Creatures I saw in Gran Cairo but the most Ingenious was a Nest of Four-Legged SERPENTS of Two