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A63937	A compleat history of the most remarkable providences both of judgment and mercy, which have hapned in this present age extracted from the best writers, the author's own observations, and the numerous relations sent him from divers parts of the three kingdoms : to which is added, whatever is curious in the works of nature and art / the whole digested into one volume, under proper heads, being a work set on foot thirty years ago, by the Reverend Mr. Pool, author of the Synopsis criticorum ; and since undertaken and finish'd, by William Turner...	Turner, William, 1653-1701.	1697 (1697)	Wing T3345; ESTC R38921	1,324,643	657

the Nuts falling off Nature supplies the lost ones by immediately putting forth another Cluster and this it does from Month to Month so that some are Ripe when others are in the Blossom The Coco Fruit is very extraordinary making a good Drink called Lanha while the Nut is green arrived to a greater Consistence they eat it with Spoons and call it Cosanha come to the last Perfection it is eaten and is savoury and well tasted but some part of it hot and unwholsome The thin Rind that covers the Kernel is Medicinal a kind of Meat called Cuscus is made of the Nut grated The Gratings steeped in Water and squeezed make a delicious Broth. Much more might be said of the Fruit of this Tree for they make an Oil of the dried Kernel c. The utmost Rind called Cairo well macerated and drawn into Threads afford all sorts of fine Thread and Ropes big enough for the greatest Ships which will not rot in Salt-water The second Rind when green is eaten like Chardons when ripe 't is called Charetta and made up for divers Uses charked it admirably tempers Iron In short the Palm-Tree alone is sufficient to build rig and freight a Ship with Bread Wine Water Oil Vinegar Sugar c. I have sailed in Vessels says my Author where the Bottom and the whole Cargo hath been from the Munificence of the Palm-Tree Relation of the River Nile c. Translated into English by Sir Peter Wyche p. 70 71 c. 4. The Cabbage-Tree growing in the Caribbe-Islands is as Dr. Stubbs assures us a sort of Palm-Tree All that Part that is eaten as the Cabbage is what sprouted out the Year and so is tender If eaten raw it is as good as new Almonds and if boiled it excels the best Cabbage When that Top is cut off the Tree dies The Doctor saith There was one of those Trees at Barbadoes above 300 Foot high This Tree will never rot and when 't is dried grows so hard that you cannot drive a Nail into it Sir Thomas Pope Blount's Nat. Hist p. 357. 5. The Stinking-Tree growing in the East-Indies naturally smells like the strongest Humane Excrements especially as upon the emptying of a House of Office Sir Philberto Vernatti sent an Arm of this Tree of the Royal Society at Gresham-College where thô it hath now been preserved many Years yet seems to give as full and quick a Scent as ever Yet in burning it yields no Smell 't is ponderous hard and of the Colour of English Oak and as that hath large Air-Vessels yet but few Ibid. p. 356. 6. The Cocao-Tree the Bodies of the largest are in Bigness thô not in Tallness equal to our English Plum-Trees They are in every part smooth and much resemble our Heart-Cherry-Tree there is little difference in their Leaves these being pointed but smoother on the Edges and of a darker Green more like the Leaves of an Orange-Tree It bears Fruit every Year twice delights in the Shade The Fruit called the Cacao-Nut shaped like a Cucumber about four or five Inches long and two broad chiefly used in making Chocolate Those Trees grow in America A Bearing-Tree yielding from two to eight Pound of Nuts a Year and each Cod twenty or thirty Nuts The Cods grow only out of the Body or great Limbs and at the same time there are Blossoms Young and Ripe Fruit. These Kernels being well pounded in a Mortar with Sugar and Spices are commonly made up in Cakes or Rolls and so brought Spain and other Parts Dr. Stubbs is of Opinion that 't is the best Diet for Hypochondriacal and Chronical Distempers Scurvey Gout Stone Women lying in and Children new born c. Sir Tho. Pope Blout 's Nat. Hist p. 91 c. 7. Thee or Tea is a Shrub growing in most Parts of China and Japan it is about the bigness of our Garden Rose and Currant-Trees The Roots are Fibrous and spread near the Surface of the Earth the Flowers are like those of Rosa Sylvestris the Seeds are round and black which being sow'd come to perfection in three Years time but that Crop is little valued the great and only Virtue of this Plant consisting in the Leaves of which there are five sorts the largest at Bottom being sold at a Penny-halfpenny the Pound the smallest at the Top for Fifty or a Hundred Crowns the Pound 'T is supposed of Virtue to rectifie the Ferment of the Blood and to strengthen and confirm the Tone of the Parts in assisting Nature in her Operations Warm Water is lookt upon as the best Vehicle for it Ibid. p. 100. 8. Coffee or Cauphe grows in Arabia Faelix like our Cherry-Trees but scarce so big It bears a Berry about the bigness of a small Bean used much in Turkey in the City of Cairo Barbary c. Monsieur Thevenot says If it be drank very hot it clears the Head of Vapours moderately hot it binds and cold it is laxative The Lord Bacon says it comforts the Brain and Heart and helps Digestions Dr. Willis confirms the same but saith it disposes to the Palsie The Persians think it allays the Natural Heat and hinders Procreation Ibid. c. p. 110. 9. Lignum Aloes is most in Malacca in the Islands Sumatra Camboia Siam and the Adjoyning Countries the Trees are like Oliver Trees but larger the drier the Wood is the better it smells the innermost part of the Wood is the best the finest is called Columba and the other Palo d'Aquilla The Wood that is very heavy with black and brown Veins and yieldeth much Oyl which is found by the Fire is the best and the greater and thicker the better it is Of this Wood they make many costly things and it hath so curious a smell that it is greatly esteemed the Calamba if good is sold by weight against Silver and Gold the Palo D'aquilla is next accounted of There is another kind called Aquilla Brava the Indians use to burn therewith the bodies of their Bramen's and Men of account this Wood beaten to Powder and taken in Broth or Wine fortifies the Stomach stays Vomiting and Cures the Plurisie and Bloody-Flux c. Ibid. p. 70. 10. The Lentisk-Tree bears the Mastick which is a Gummy Rosin of a whitish yellow well scented and in Grains the best comes from Chio three Leagues from that Island upon a Mountain to the South there grows a peculiar sort of Trees the Leaves are like Myrtle their Branches so long that they creep on the Ground but which is wonderful that when they are down they rise again of themselves From the beginning of May to the end of June the Inhabitants take great care to keep the Earth under the Tree very clean for during those two Months there Issues out a certain Gum from the Joints of the Branches which drops upon the Ground this is that we call Mastick and the Turks Sakes according to the Islands Name Here grows great store of this Mastick which in the

is whitish and divided into a Dozen Cells filled with Stones as big as Chesnuts white and cordial It 's a Fruit nutritive and dainty and may be called an Epitome of all the best and rarest Fruits in the Orient Clark of Plants c. p. 201. 51. The Aree-Tree is almost as high as a Cedar but more like the Palmetto It is of fuzzy hollow substance adorned at every top with Plumes wherein the Fruit hangs in clusters It is in shape and bigness like a Walnut white and hard within hath neither taste nor smell They never Eat it alone but wrap it in a Leaf of Bettle and are frequently chawing of it Some add to it a kind of Lime made of Oyster-shells It cures the Chollick removes Melancholly kills Worms provokes Lust purges the Stomach and prevents Hunger It 's much used in the East-Indies Ibid. 52. The Palmeto-Tree is long straight round and soft without Leaf Bough or Branch save at the top and those are few green and sedgie under which Branches there appear certain codded Seed c. Ibid. 53. Dr. Edward Brown in his Discription of Larissa in Thessaly saith the Country produceth very large fair and delicious Figs Water-Melons the largest and most pleasant I have tasted as also fair and delicate Pomegranates Oranges Lemons and Citrons Vines which are low and not supported but the Branches and Clusters great and the Grapes as big as good Damsons and of a delicious taste The Wine of the Country is rich but hath a resinous taste or tang of the Boracho They Plant Tobacco and esteem it better than what is brought from other Parts as being more strong and pungent The Fields are spread with Sefamum and Cotton-Trees but the Trees grow low yet make a fair show The Country abounds in Almonds and Olives 〈◊〉 the Greeks delight most in ripe Olives pickled as we in the green Dr. Brown's Trav. p. 41. 54. The Gourds in the Hedges with their large yellow Flowers and the many sorts of green Thorns and ever-green Oaks make the ways pleasant Idem 55. The Hex Coccifera and Chermes-berry or the Excretion serving for Dying and making the Confection of Alchermes growing plentifully in these Countries 56. Garlick they use in most of their Dishes and their Onions are extraordinary as large as two or three fair ones with us and of a far better taste being sharp quick and pleasantly pungent and without any offensive smell Though I were no lover of Onions before yet I found these exceeding pleasant and comfortable to the Stomach They are used at most Collations and eaten with Bread in great quantity I asked a Chiaus then with us who had Travell'd through most of the Turkish Dominions Whether he had any where met with so good Chions as those of Thessaly who answered me That the Onions of Egypt were better which was the first time I sensibly understood the Expression in the Scripture and ceased to wonder why the Israelites lingred after the Onions of that Country Ibid. p. 42. 57. Coral grows like a Tree in the bottom of the Sea green when under Water and bearing a white Berry and when out turns red There is also a black and yellow kind of Coral Lindschot says That at the Cape of Good Hope there are Rocks on which Coral grows of all colours In the Mediterranean they gather great quantity of it and those of Massilia go yearly to Fish for it and draw it from the bottom of the Sea with Nets The Places for this Fishery are Arguiril near Sardinia Bosa near the Island of St. Peter and near the Bastion of France c. The times for this Fishery are from April to the end of July to which purpose there are imployed 200 Vessels more ot less yearly They never Fish above 40 miles from the Land where they think there are Rocks for fear of the Pirates Tavern Trav. in India In the East and West-Indies they Fish with two big Beams of Wood laid cross-wise with a good piece of Lead in the middle to make it sink casting about it course Hemp carelesly twisted and tying this Wood to two Ropes whereof one hangs at the Stern and the other at the forepart of the Boat The common Opinion That Coral is soft under Water is confuted by John Baptista de Nichole Overseer of the Gathering of Coral in the Kingdom of Tunis Yet Mr. Boyle affirms That whilst it grows it is often found soft and succulent and propagates its Species Georgius de Sepibus Kircher Wormius and Tavernier are of the same Opinion Ser Tho. Pope Blunt Nat. Hist p. 23. it is otherwise called the Stone-Tree CHAP. XLIII Strange Minerals Now we are going to draw off the very Skin and Surface of the Earth and Anatomize the very Sediment of the Creation and even there we shall find the Footsteps of the Almighty and Trace the print of his Divine Atributes For whither can we go from his presence he not only sits upon the Circle of the Earth but if we ascend up to Heaven he is there if we go down into the lower parts of the Earth he is there also Even the Materials that the Earth is made of are full of Wonder and very useful for the wants of Men. 1. Lime is no more than Chalk burnt of which heareafter it is a king of Earth drier than a Stone which after it is burnt is made more intense with Water and extinguished with Oil 'T is called Quick-Lime because it contains an occult Fire within it Stier Phys pars specialls Tract 4. c. 5. 2. Gypsum is a kind of Playster or Mortar viz. a white Earth clammy and light a-kin to Chalk but not so hot dug ot of the upper part of the Earth 4. Creta Chalk is white Earth chiefly dug in the Isle of Crete or Candy but there is much of it in other parts It kills Worms in Children and is good against Heart-Burnings and dries up Wounds 4. Oaker Ochra a light kind of Clay of which being burnt in new Pots bedawbed with Clay is made Ruddle It is naturally yellow discusses hard Tumours dried and binds 5. Argilla a kind of Potters Earth fat and clammy of which are made Earthen Vessels It is cold drying binding and abstersive 6. Terra Lemnia otherwise called Sigillata or sealed Earth because Diana's Priest taking upon him for the Honour of his Country offering for Expiation Wheat and Barley brought this into the City soked with Water and making it like Clay he dried it that it might be like soft Wax and when it was become so he sealed it with the sacred Seal of Diana Gal. l. 9. Simpl. Now it is digged up yearly not without Superstition on the 6th day of August only They that dig are Greeks the Pit sends forth a sweet smell It is digged after Sun-rising for 6 hours it is laid up in one Lump and it must see no light till a year be expired Then it is taken out and washt being washt