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A35244	Miracles of art and nature, or, A brief description of the several varieties of birds, beasts, fishes, plants, and fruits of other countreys : together with several other remarkable things in the world by R.B., Gent.	R. B., 1632?-1725?	1678 (1678)	Wing C7345; ESTC R21178	31,543	130

forty years of age upon Easter day about nine of the clock in the year of our Lord God 1276. was brought to bed of 365 Children half Males and half Females the odd one an Fermophradite all which were baptized in the Church of Laudunen aforesaid by the names of Iohn and Elizabeth who together with their mother dyed the same day and lye buried in the said Church This happened by the meanes of a poor Woman who carried in her Arms two Children who were Twins and both of them Males which the Countess admiring said that she could not have them by one Father and so shook her off with Contempt and Scorn Whereupon the poor woman being much perplexed presently prayed to God to send her as many Children as there was days in the year which thing beyond the course of nature in a stupendious manner came to pass as is before related CHAP. LIII LINVM VIVVM 'T Is reported that in ancient times there was a certain kind of Flax which the Latins called Linum vivum whereof were made whole pieces of Linnen-cloth and Garments which could not be consumed by Fire not only so but being cast into the Fire the Soil and Dirtiness of it would be burnt away and taken out again it became more white then any water could wash it The Bodies of Emperours and Kings were burnt in sheets of this Linnen least the Ashes of their Bodies should mingle with the Ashes of the Wood This Flax is hard to be found and as difficult to be woven by reason of the shortness of it but being found 't is equalled in price to the most excellent Pearls Nero is reported to have had a linnen Garment of it 'T is also reported that Podocatarus a Knight of Cyprius brought some of it to Venice or at least a sort of Flax that could not be consumed by Fire Now the Flax of Cyprus proceedeth from no Plant as our Flax but from the stone of Amiantus which being found in Cyprus and Broken the earthy dross being purged away there remains fine hair threads like to Flax which is woven into Cloth this Flax was seen in the house of the said Padocatarus by many men of worth and credit wherefore Lime being made of this stone and Incombustible Constantine the Emperour ordained that it should always burn in Lamps in his Chappel at Rome The same reports Damasus in the life of Pope Silvester St. Augustine saith also that he saw Lamps at Paris whose lights never consumed Also at Lovain a Napkin taken from the table at a Feast and thrown into the Fire and being red as a Coal was taken out again cooled and restored to the owner more white then if it had been washed with all the water and Soap in the Town CHAP. LIV. CHILE IN CHILE are said to be several fine Rivers but there is one more Famous then the rest though nameless which in the day time runneth with a violent stream and in the Night hath no Water at all The reason of it is because this River hath no constant Fountain but is both begun and continued by the Snow falling from the Mountains which in the heat of the day is melted into water and precipitately carried into the Sea but congealed in the coldness of the night yields no water at all whereby the Channel becometh empty CHAP. LV. IAPAN IAPAN is a Country Mountanous and barren but of a very healthy Air if not too much subject to cold yet in some places they have Wheat in the Month of May but their Rice which is their Principal sustenance they gather not before September The surface of the Earth clothed with Woods and Forrests in which are some Cedars of so tall and large a body that one of them only is sufficient to make a Pillar for a Church the Bowels of it stored with divers Mettals and amongst others such inexhaustible Mines of Gold Paulus Venetus reporteth some of their Pallaces of their Kings to be covered with sheets of Gold as ours in Europe are with Lead Their fields and Meadows full of Cattel but hitherto not made acquainted with making of Butter their Fens much visited with wild Ducks as their yards with Pigeons Turtle Quailes and Putten The People for the most part of a good understanding apt to learn and of able memories cunning and subtile in their dealings of Body vigorous and strong accustomed to bear Arms till sixty years old their Complexion of an Olive-colour their Beards thin and the one half of their hair of their Heads shaved off patient they are of pain ambitious of Glory uncapable of suffering wrong but can withall dissemble their resentments of it till opportunity of Revenge They reproach no man for his poverty so it come not by his own thriftness for which cause they detest all kind of Gaming as the wayes or ill Husbandry and Generally abhor Slandering Swearing and Theft Their Mourning commonly is in White as their Feasts in Black their Teeth they colour black also to make them more beautiful they mount on the Right side of the Horse and sit as we use to rise when they entertain In Physiek they eat salt things sharp and raw and in their Salutations they put off their shooes The very Antipodes of our World in Custom though not in sight In other things they much resemble those of China if not the more Ceremonious of the two washing their Infant children in the nearest River as soon as born and putting on shooes when they go to meat The People have but one Language but that so intermingled with the words of other Nations that it seems rather to be many then one they have long used the Art of Printing which probably they might have from China the Characters whereof are a kind of Burchigraphy and signifie not only Letters but some whole Words also in matters of Religion Gentiles Adorning Anciently the Sun Moon and Stars of Heaven and giving Divine honour to wild Beasts and the Staggs of the Forrests but specially worshipping some of their Deceased Priests and Princes by the names of Fotoques and Cames to the first of which they use to pray for Goods of the other World and to the last for Temporal Blessings Two Famous Mountains there are one of which called Figenojama is said to Transcend the Clouds in height the other but without a Name useth to cast forth dreadful Flames like Corsican Aetna on the top whereof the Devil environed with a white shining cloud doth sometimes shew himself to such of his Votaries as live about this hill an abstemious life like the Ancient Hermits CHAP. LVI GILOLO GILOLO called also Batachina one of the Oriental Islands which our Navigators include under the Name of Del Moro of large extent conceived to be half as big as Italy by that account the truth thereof is very much doubled greater than Zelan is in Compass though of less Reputation that being Governed by its own Princes this is Subject for the

which tried and melted they make an excellent Copper and some again which flow in Winter and freeze in Summer and near to ●ristice or Mensoll is a Spring or Fountain out of which cometh a green Water whereof they make a Soder for their Gold CHAP. XLVIII ARMAGH IN the County ARMAGH in the Kingdom of Ireland is a Lake into which if one thrust a piece of Wood he shall find that part of it which remaineth in the mud to be turned into Iron and that in the Water to be turned into a Whetstone 'T is said that their Kine will give no Milk if their Calves be not by them or at least their Calf-skins stuffed out with Straw or Hay CHAP. XLIX MADAGASCAR MADAGASCAR one of the Affrican Islands is a Countrey plentiful of all things necessary for the life of Man particularly of Mill Rice Honey Wax Cotton Wooll Sugars Stags Goats Dear and other Creatures both Wild and Tame Lemons and other cooling Fruits Red Sanders Saffron Amber and some Mines of Gold Silver Iron and Copper Their Beefs and Mutton so good and cheap that for a two peny Bead or some such trifle they will sell Beefs and Sheep of good taste and bigness great store of Elephants rare Fruits and amongst the rest they have plenty of those they call Coco's or Cocon-uts a kind of Date as bigg as a Cabbage the Liquor in it about the quantity of a Pint in taste like Wine and Sugar the Kernel bigg enough to content two Men and like good Ale it affords not only Meat and Drink but Clothing two as also Furniture for their Houses Tackle for their Ships Fewel for their Fire and Timber for their Building A Country far too good for so bad a People For as Travellers report they are Treacherous Inhospitable Ignorant both of Prayers and Festivals destitute of the distinction of Time into Years and Months not knowing any proper names for the days in the week nor able to reckon above 10 naked except their privities which they cover with a Cotten Idolaters in the Midland parts and Mahometans on the Shores commendable only for their hate to Poligamy and restravning themselves to one wife the defiling of the Marriage Bed severely punished but otherwise so eager upon Copulation that their Boys at the Age of 12 years and the Girls at Ten think they stay too long if they keep their Virginity any longer some of them like Quartilla in Petronius Arbiter begin so early ut nunquam meminerint se Virgines fuisse that they remember not the time when they lost their Maiden-heads Of colour they are Black and of strong complexion their Breasts and Faces Cut and Pinct to appear more beautiful CHAP. L. Isle of CVBA in America AMongst the Rarities of the Isle of Cuba in America they mention a Fountain out of which floweth a Pitchey substance which is found frequently on the Seas into which it falleth excellent for the calking of Ships Secondly a navigable River but the name not told us the Waters whereof are so hot that a man cannot hold his hand in it withont scalding they tell us also of a Valley fifteen Leagues from St. Iago which produceth Stones exactly round as if made for pleasure but yet meerly natural but these no greater Rarities then in other places nor altogether so great as in Hispaniola Of which they tell us of a fair River whose Waters are salt and yet none but fresh streames fall into it Of another Lake three Leagues in compass on the top of the Mountains into which many Rivers were known to run without any exit yet neither of these so rare or strange as the Cucugo a kind of a Beetle the eyes and wings whereof when opened give so great a light in the darkest night or places that a man may see to read or write by it as well as by a Candle CHAP. LI. TIBERIVS 'T Is reported in the time of Tiberius the Roman Emperour there was invented Glass of that temper that it would abide the hamer and be beaten in length or breadth like lead and pliable to bend every way like Paper and that the Inventor was put to death upon this occasion He having built a magnificent Palace in Rome which after the building began to sink and was likely to fall which Tiberius seeing and having before-hand paid him for the building of it commanded him to depart and never to see him in the face again He afterward having invented the way of making Glass malyable or to abide the hamer came to shew the same to Tiberius in hopes of obtaining a reward for his nvention but instead thereof his whole Shop was pulled down and laid waste least Brass Gold and Silver should be undervalued in their price and esteem Some report that Tiberius did it out of malice and envy because he naturally hated learning and all Ingenious men Petronius relates the matter after this manner saying that there was a skilful Crafts-man who made Cups and Vessels of Glass of that firmness that they would no more break their Pots of Silver or Gold Now when he had made a Viol of this Glass and thought it worthy to be given to Tiberius he was brought with his present before him Tiberius received the Viol and much commended the workmanship of it the workman more to amaze the beholders and that he might make himself a further way into Tiberius favour took the Glass-viol again into his hand and threw it down upon the pavement with so great a force that had it been made of Gold or Silver it had been either broke or bruised Tiberius was hereat astonished but the maker took up his Glass again which was only a little bruised but no where broken then taking a hamer out of his pocket he beat out the bruise again and brought it to ' its right fashion which being done he thought he had purchased Heaven gaining at once Tiberius's Favour and Admiration But it fell out otherwise for Tiberius demanded if any knew that Art but himself He answered none that he knew whereupon Tiberius commanded he should be beheaded For says he If this Art were publickly known Gold and Silver would be no more esteemed of then Clay CHAP. LII HENRY the third Emperour THere was a Lady lived iu the time of Henry the third Emperour who brought forth at one Birth 365 Children the just nnmber of days in the year In memory whereof not far from Leiden in Holland in a Village called Lansdunen there is to be seen a Table of Marble which contains the whole story of this stupendious accident These two Verses were Ingraven uppermost being her Epitaph En tibi monstrosum nimis memorabile factum Quale nec a mundi conditione datum Margaret the Wife of Herman Earl of Henenberge and Daughter of Florence the 4 th Earl of Holland and Zealand Sister of William King of the Romans and after Caesar or Governour of the Empire c. This noble Countess being about