the Stones and Ground actually hot so that sometimes they can hardly stand upon the Place as Glauber says and from whence that proceeds LXXIX Whether there be Mineral Jucies that harden into Stones or Metals upon the Touch of the Air called Gur of this Helmont relates an Observation LXXX What Laws Constitutions and OEconomy is observ'd among the Miners LXXXI What way the Trees and their Leaves are affected by the Mineral Fumes and Juices and if they be gilded or silver'd as along the River Meine in Germany is observ'd and if these Trees be more ponderous than others if they have any Metals or Metaline Concretes lodg'd in their Pores LXXXII Whether there be Waters and Springs observ'd to rise near the Mines and run their whole Course under the Ground without ever appearing above it LXXXIII Whether Subterraneous Springs do rise with any Wind or determinate Change of Weather LXXXIV How much heavier the Atmosphere is at the Bottom than the Top and whether Damps considerably increase the Weight of it LXXXV Whether they find any strange Substances in the Mines as Vessels Anchors Fishes inclos'd in Spar or Metal Having gone through what belongs to the Mineral Kingdom in as full a Method as we could the next Head of Enquiries shall be about the Vegetable Kingdom which though more proper for one that has his Abode fix'd may yet be acceptable and useful also to the curious Traveller I. What Vegetables there are which having the wrong end of them set down into the Ground will yet grow as 't is said Elders and Briars will II. Whether the Branch of a Plant as of a Vine or Bramble being laid into the Ground whilst yet growing on the Tree and there taking Root being cut off from the Tree whilst so growing will shoot out forward and backward III. In Tapping Cutting or Boring of any Tree whether the Juice that vents at it comes from above or below IV. What part of the Juice ascends or descends by the Bark whether what so ascends ascends by the outward or inward part of it V. Whether if a Zone of about two or three Inches be cut off about the bottom of a Branch that Branch will die or cast its Leaves or bleed out a Juice from the upper or lower part of the Bark so cut or be apt to shoot out Leaves or Branches or Knobs either above or below that boring VI. What the use of the Pith is whether the Juice ascend or descend by it and what Effects will follow if the Trunk be bor'd to the Pith and a Peg droven hard into the Hole of the Pith both above and below this to be tried in the most pithy Plants VII Whether the Points or Ends of the Roots being cut off will bleed as copiously as Branches of the Trunks do when bor'd VIII What side of the Tree affords most Sap. IX Of What Age Trees afford most Sap. X. What are the best Seasons of the Air for taking the Sap of every kind of Tree in greatest Quantity and how long that Season lasteth XI Whether the Sap comes more copiously at one Time of the Day or Night than at another XII Whether Trees afford any considerable Juice in the Fall XIII What Effect Copiousness or Scarcity of Rain hath upon the Saps of Trees XIV Whether or no the Nature of a Tree may be changed by Applications of Juices or Liquors to the Roots or other Parts XV. Whether a Tree whose Root is covered from Rain and not watered if the Branches of it be exposed to the Air will grow XVI Whether inoculated Roots of a Tree will grow XVII How short the Arms of the Roots of a Tree may be cut and the Tree still grow XVIII How deep the several kinds of Trees are to be set in the Ground to grow XIX Whether or no a Seed being planted either way it will grow equally XX. Whether the Stem of a Tree being set in the Earth and the Root turn'd up into the Air the Tree will grow c. Enquiries concerning the Vse and Culture of the Kitchen-Garden and Winter-Greens I. What Roots First Shoots Sprouts Stalks Buds Flowers Fruits Kernels Seeds to Eat Raw Boil Roste Bake Pickle Preserve Candy Dry whole Dry to Powder serving for Spice make Wine Cyder Perry Ale and other various Drinks Vinegar Verjuice Thick Juices like Honey Concrete Juices like Sugar Bread Cakes Puddings bak'd Meats Broths give pleasant Colours to Meats and Drinks what Herbs are fit to make Sallads and how to be order'd for that purpose II. The best Season to sow every sort of Seed III. How often every sort of Seed ought to be sown for the Use of the Kitchen-Garden IV. How the Earth is compounded and ordered for several kinds of Seeds and Plants V. What to be sow'd on Cold Grounds VI. What to be sow'd on Hot Beds VII Several ways of making Hot Beds and their Attendance VIII How and what to be transplanted either into Cold Ground or into New Hot Beds and how order'd after IX What Observations on the Sun Moon and Weather for Sowing Planting and Transplanting X. How to water and shade Plants new planted and Seeds sowed XI What thrives best in the Sun XII What thrives best in the Shade XIII What and how such as will not prosper in the Green-House may be covered and preserved abroad XIV The several Names of Worms Vermine and Insects that are noxious to the Gardens XV. The Remedies XVI The best Form and Dimension of the Green-House as also of what to build and cover it XVII What to be housed in Winter XVIII How to order the Pots or Tubs before they are used XIX When and in what Weather to open and close the Green-House XX. What Observations at the first setting abroad of the Winter-Greens in the Spring XXI How to Prune and Dung the Winter-Greens XXII What may be increased by the Root XXIII What by Layers XXIV What by Slips or Cuttings XXV What grows best of Seeds that shed and sow themselves XXVI What to be Grafted and Inoculated XXVII The several ways of Ingrafting and Inoculating XXVIII How to alter the Shape Smell Taste and Colour of Vegetables by joining different Roots together XXIX How and what may be changed by Grafting Joining or Inoculating Shoots or Buds on different Stocks or Cyons XXX How to compound several Liquors to Water and feed Vegetables whereby they may be much altered XXXI Of what Roots Stalks Barks Leaves Flowers Fruits Seeds or Downs may be made either Cups Boxes Baskets Mats Callicoes Cloths as Nettle Cloth and the like all which will be most useful for the Life of Man from the Garden XXXII How to prune Vines how many Joints to leave and of what Age the Vine must be that is cut away XXXIII How to prune Standard-Trees XXXIV How to prune Wall-Trees and with what to be best fastned XXXV The Places from whence the best of the Vegetables that are either Winter-Greens or fit for the
of the Natives there can stay under Water half an Hour without any Art 4. Whether the Iron in Pegu and Japan be far better than ours and if so what is to be observ'd in Melting Forging and Tempering of it 5. Whether in Sumatra there be a Fountain running a very Sanative Oil and whether the Ignivomous Mountain in the same Country do burn continually and cast out Stones so eaten by the Fire that they swim 6. What is the Opinion of the more Inquisitive Men in these Parts of Ambergris and whether the greatest Quantities of it are found about the Isle Mauritius 7. Whether it be Winter on the East-side of the Mountain Gates which comes from the North Cape Comorin whilst it is Summer on the West-side and so vice versa 8. Whether it be true That upon the Coast of Coromandel sixteen Degrees Northern Latititude between Peleacate and Maselupatan fifty Leagues in length the hot Winds blowing from the Landward from eight in the Morning till four in the Afternoon with such a suffocating Heat that the Inhabitants are not able to endure it without extraordinary Helps and Refreshment Every one for his Provision of Drink daily hangs his Bottle made of common Pot-Earth and filled with Well-water or other potable Liquor upon some Post Tree or Wall in Places where the Sun and Wind are most piercing leaving it all the Day long there in the scorching Heat and then taking it up about four a Clock in the Evening the Drink is more cool than any depth of Cellaridge can make it And whether on the contrary the Bottles being suffered to continue in the Air as before the cool Sea-Gales which come in after the said Hour and continue all Night till eight in the Morning to the Refreshment of all Creatures the Liquors grow hot and unfit for Drink 9. Whether the Tide near Mindana going from the Molucca's to the Philippina's are so swift that neither contrary Winds nor Anchors can save a Ship from being carried away by it and that it rises about three or four Feet and whether the like be observ'd in the Bay of Cambaia and in that between Martagan and Pegu And particularly whether in the said Bays the Tides come in with that Impetuosity and Swiftness about the Quarters of the Moon that the Watchmen from high Towers must give Warning to the People to retire and that a Horse in his swiftest Course when such a Tide comes upon it as Isaac Vossius observes lib. de motu Marium Ventorum c. 15. And what other Particulars are observable in all these Coasts about the Tides 10. Whether there be any Discoveries newer than the newest Painted Maps of the Parts of the World North-East of Japan and whether Japan be truly an Island or no. 11. What is the true way of Making and Colouring China Dishes and how in China and Japan they make the Black Varnish 12. With what Materials and how they paint on Cloth commonly called Pintados and likewise upon Canvas c. 13. Whether Lignum Aloes be the Wood or Root of a Tree in what Country it is found and how to know the best of the kind 14. Whether the best Tea be that which comes forth at the first of the Spring and are the Top-Leaves in what manner 't is dry'd and whether the too hasting drying thereof hurts it 15. Whether there grows a Wood in Java that naturally smells like Humane Excrements and if so what kind of Ground it grows in 16. Whether in the Malacca Islands there be a Red Wood which burns sparkles and flames without being consumed yet may be reduced to Powder by rubbing between ones Fingers 17. Whether near the Fort of Ternate there be a Plant called by the Inhabitants Catopa whence fall little Leaves which are turned into Butterflies 18. Whether in Pegu and other Places they use a Poison that kills by smelling and yet the poisonous Smell is hardly perceived 19. Whether it be true That the only Antidote hitherto known against the Famous and Fatal Macassar Poison is Humane Ordure taken inwardly and of what Substance that Poison is made of 20. Whether there be such a Vegetable in Java called Mangas Bravas that is so poisonous that it kills presently and for which no Remedy hath been yet found 21. Where the best Calumba Wood or Palo d' Aquila whether the Palo d' Aquila be much inferior to Calamba and how they are distinguish'd whether the latter be the Pith of the former whence the best sort comes whether it be stored with a Rich and Gordial Balm and that be the Cause of its great Rate being much used in the Decay of Spirits and the Lameness and Impotency of Nerves 22. Whether they draw an Oil resembling Oil of Camphire from the Roots of the Cinnamon-Tree and how they draw it 23. Whether the Camphire of Borneo be not the Exudation or Gum of a Tree 24. Whether the Indians can so prepare that stupifying Herb called Dutroa or Datura that they make it lie several Days Months and Years according as they design it in a Man's Body without doing him any Hurt and at the end kill him without missing an Hour's time 25. Whether the Betele hath such a Contrariety to the Durion that a few Leaves of that put to a whole Shopful of Durions will make them all rot suddenly and whether those that have surfeited on Durions and thereby overhearted themselves do by laying a Leaf or two of Betele upon their Breasts or Stomachs immediately cure the Inflammations and Recover 26. Whether the Papayat which bear Fruit like a Melon do not bear unless Male and Female as the Vulgar distinguishes them stand together 27. Whether there be two sorts of Trees called Arbor Triste one by the Name of Triste di Die the other Triste die Notte whereof the former sheds his Flowers at the Rising the other at the Setting of the Sun and whether the distilled Water thereof called Aqua di Mogli by the Portugals may not be transported into these Parts 28. Whether one of these Trees called Arbre de Rays propagates it self into a whole Forest by shouting up and letting fall its Branches into the Ground that spring up again and so on and whether there be any single ones of these Trees that are above fifty Feet in Diameter as some affirm 29. What Particulars are observable in other Plants of those Parts 30. Whether those Shel-fishes that are in those Parts plump and in Season at the Full Moon and lean and out of Season at the New are found to have contrary Constitutions in the East-Indies 31. Whether the Animal that yields the true Musk be like a Deer horules found in the high Country between Pegu and China and whether the Musk grows in Bags Blisters or Swellings which the Beast rubs off against Trees it being affirmed to have been found in the Woods by the Scent whether True Musk is discerned from the False by its Yellowness when rubbed upon
Wounding Serpent and put hot upon the Wound 31. Whether the Wood-Lice in those Countries generated out of Rotten Wood are not 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 Wood with the Oil of that kind of Palma Christi a Plant wherewith the Natives rub their Heads to secure them from Vermine 32. Whether that sort of Vermine they meet with commonly called Ravets spare nothing of what they meetwith either of Paper Cloaths Linnen and Woollen 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 betimes 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 of each particular Wind is observed to be and particularly whether the North-Wind be the coldest and if not whether is coldest 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 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 Moon the Spring-Tides fall out 9. Whether the Ice that floats in the Sea be of Salt-Water or Fresh 10. What Rivers there are in the Summer and what fresh Waters can be had 11. What Fowl are found to 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 Fuits 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 farthest 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 Intrals the Ambergreese looking like Cow Dung. Purchat 19. What observable Difference there is of the Coldness of the Winds 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 Whale-fishing throwing the Harping-Irons following the Fish 21. To describe the whole manner of making the Oil of Whale FINIS