Salter than at the Top or whether there be fresh Water at the Bottom occasion'd by Springs of Fresh Water there as some presume there are having observ'd in some Places Springs of fresh Water a great way within the Sea-marks The Contrivance is this a Wooden Bucket is fastened to an Iron rod with a Weight to sink it this Bucket is shut at Top and Bottom with two Valves or Clacks so contriv'd that when in descends it may open and let the Water pass through but when 't is pull'd up again from the Bottom it may shut so close as to keep in all the Water it has at that Time by the under Valve and the ambient Water over it from getting in by the upper Valve If any be desirous to have one of these they may have them at Mr. Papins in Frydaystreet at Mr. Carpenter's over against the Bell-Inn Having gone through the General Directions both for Sea and Land we come to more Particular ones and shall begin first with those that concern Mines the Knowledge of which tho it began very early and has been continu'd to our Times yet is still found improveable by Human Industry as Experience has taught us and therefore worthy to be consider'd in the next Place especially seeing the Arts and Inventions most useful for Man's Life depend more upon this than any other and that without it the World should want little of Returning to its former Barbarity All shall be reduced to six General Heads as has been done by the worthy Patron of Ingenious Arts the Honourable Robert Boyle now in Glory The First The neighbouring Country about the Mines The Second The Soyl where the Mines are The Third The Sign of Mines The Fourth The Structure and other Particulars relating to the Mines themselves The Fifth The Nature and Circumstances of the Ore The Sixth The Reduction of the Ore into Metal QVERIES about the First Title I. Whether the Country be Mountainous Plain or distinguish'd with Valleys And in case it be Mountainous what kind of Hills they are whether High or Low or indifferently elevated whether almost equal or very unequal in heighth whether Fruitful or Barren Cold or Temperate Rocky or not Hollow or Solid whether they run in Ridges or seem confusedly plac'd and if the former what Way the Ridges run North or South c. And whether they run any thing parallel to one another II. What the Country produces and what is most plenty III. What Cattle it produces whether they have any thing peculiar in point of Bigness Colour Longevity Fitness or Unfitness to make good Meat and other Things which may rather be attributed to the peculiar Nature of the Place than the Barrenness of the Soyl or other manifest Causes IV. What Health the Inhabitants enjoy what Diseases they are subject to and to what not for 't is said that such as dwell near Quicksilver Mines are seldom troubl'd with the Plague And lastly what Remedies are found for the Epidemick Diseases of the Place V. What plenty of Rivers Brooks Lakes Springs c. in these and how these are in Colour N. B. Mr. Boyle says somewhere that a reddish Mineral Water has been drunk to satisfie Thirst without any Hurt Taste c. and how they affect the Health of those that use them VI. How the Air is disposed as to Heat or Cold Calms or Winds and whether these Winds do proceed from or are infected with Subterraneous Steams whether Clear or Foggy About the Second Title VII Whether the Soyl that is near the Surface of the Earth be stony and if so what sort of Stones it abounds with whether it be Claye Marlie or Chalky and of how many kinds this is and by what Properties they are distinguish'd About the Third Title VIII By what Signs they conjecture a Mine to be in a Place IX And seeing these Signs are either above or beneath the Surface of the Earth Quaer Whether the Ground be barren where these Metal Mines are X. What Trees or Plants do most plentifully grow in these Places and do thrive well or ill in these Places whether they be more dwarfish more discolour'd in the Leaves or have any Preternatural Colour in them XI What Alteration is produc'd in the Waters that run from them either as to their Colour Taste Smell Ponderousness or the Matter that they leave upon the Stones they run over XII Whether Snow or Ice continue as long in these Places as they do in the Neighbouring Places XIII Whether the Dew that falls on the Ground will discolour a white Linnen Cloth spread on the Surface of the Earth and whether the Rain brought thither from other Places will discolour such Cloaths or afford any Residence of a Mineral Nature XIV Whether Thunder Lightnings and Storms do abound there and if there be any Fiery Meteors and Nocturnal Lights observed there XV. Whether Mists do arise from such Mineral Grounds what is observable in them what Minerals they signifie and may be suppos'd to be produc'd by XVI VVhether the Virgula Divinatoria be us'd for the finding out the Mines and with what Success As for those Signs that are beneath the Surface XVII Quaer Whether there be any Clays Marles or other Mineral Earths and of what Consistence they are that give Notice of the Ores and if they be more than one and at what Depth they lye in respect of one another and how thick they are XVIII What Stones Marcasites c. there are to be found near or not far from the Surface which give Signs of those Mines as it happens in the Tin-Mines of Cornwal where Marcasites are often found above the Ore what is the particular Shapes Bigness Colour and Weight of such Stones whereby they are distinguishable from others XIX Whether Heat or Damps are a Sign of a Mine XX. Whether Water found in Digging be a Sign of a Mine XXI By what Signs the Nearness of a Mine is known and whether by any Sign one may know whether he is above beneath or at the Side of the Mine XXII By what Signs the determinate Kinds of Metals are known with their Plenty or Goodness XXIII What Signs there are of the Depth of the Mines what Signs there are of the Mines being hopeless or at least unlikely to find a Vein in the Place where 't is digged for and what these are About the Fourth Title XXIV What is the Depth of the Shaft or Groove till you come at the Vein or Ore Whether the Vein run or lye horizontal or dip and if it dip what Inclination it hath how deep the lowest part lies and consequently how much deeper than the uppermost XXV As also what its flexures if it have any are and whether it runs directly North or South East or West or seem rather to have a casual Tendency than any Determination by Nature and how far it reaches in all XXVI What is the wideness of the Groove at the Top and
GENERAL HEADS FOR THE Natural History OF A COUNTRY Great or Small Drawn out for the Use of TRAVELLERS AND NAVIGATORS Imparted by the late Honourable ROBERT BOYLE Esq Fellow of the Royal Society Ordered to be published in his Life-time at the Request of some Curious Persons To which is added other Directions for Navigators c. with particular Observations of the most noted Countries in the World By another Hand LONDON Printed for John Taylor at the Ship in S. Paul ' s Church-yard and S. Holford at the 〈…〉 in the Pall Mall 1692. J. I. Lucas TO THE READER I doubt not but it will be sufficient to recommend to you the ensuing Treatise to know that the first and most general part of it was designed for thy Benefit by the Honourable Mr. BOYLE some Months before his Death in complyance with the frequent Importunities of many curious Gentlemen Physicians c. that came to visit him who were very desirous to have Directions how they might improve themselves by their Travels to the best Advantage Since that Time Additions to it have been made partly out of Mr. Boyle's own and partly out of other Men's Writings brought together to be as it were under one View for the further Satisfaction of the Ingenious though in doing of this the Compiler has left himself a Liberty to insert such things as he thought might be either for the Delight or Profit of the Curious Traveller for whom the whole of this Treatise is designed You have here in the First place the General Directions divided into such as relate to the whole Microcosme pag. 1. II. To Navigation pag. 12. III. To Mines pag. 18. IV. Vegetables pag. 48. As for particular Directions we have begun first with Turky pag. 58. after that Egypt pag. 67. III. Guiny pag. IV. Poland pag. 75. V. Hungaria and Transilvania p. 80. VI. Suratte p. 87. VII Persia 101. VIII Virginia pag. 102. IX Guaiana and Brasil pag. 106. X. The Antisles and Caribbe Islands 109. In the End you have an Index for the most Material Words and Things in the Treatise If this Treatise meet with a favorable Acceptance we purpose to give you Vseful and Pleasant Enlargments upon most of these Heads with an Addition of New Ones not here mention'd Adieu General Heads FOR The Natural History OF A COUNTRY COnsidering the great Improvements that have of late been made of Natural History the only sure Foundation of Natural Philosophy by the Travels of Gentlemen Seamen and others And the gread Disadvantage many Ingenious Men are at in their Travels by reason they know not before-hand what things they are to inform themselves of in every Country they come to or by what Method they may make Enquiries about things to be known there I thought it would not be unacceptable to such to have Directions in General relating to all and also in Particular relating to Particular Countries in as little Bounds as possible presented to their View As for the General Heads I shall offer them to your Consideration in such Order as they were some Years ago given to the Publick by the worthy and neverto be forgotten Mr. Boyle which are those that respect the Heavens or concern the Air the Water or the Earth First Under the first kind may be reckon'd the Longitude and Latitude of the Place and that in respect to the Changes made in the Air the Climate together with the Length of the longest and shortest Days and the Parallels come here to be considered the Retrogradation of the Sun upon Dials within the Tropicks and that naturally what fixt Stars and what not seen there c. Secondly About the Air is to be considered its Temperature as to Heat Dryness and Moisture and the Measures of them its Weight Clearness Refractive Power its Subtilty or Grosness its abounding with or wanting an Esurine Salt its Variation according to the several Seasons of the Year and the Times of the Day How long the several kinds of Weather continue what sort of Meteors it breeds most commonly in what Order they are generated and how long they usually last Especially what Winds 't is lyable to whether any of them be stated and ordinary c. What Diseases are Epidemical that are suppos'd to flow from the Air What other Diseases the Country is subject to wherein that had a share e. g. the Plague and contagious Sicknesses What is the usual Salubrity or Insalubrity of the Air. And with what Constitutions it agrees better or worse than others As also the Specifick Gravity of the Air compar'd with the other foregoing Qualities for this Effect it will be convenient the Traveller be provided with a Travelling Baroscope having the Divisions usual in the other Baroscopes markt upon a sliding Ruler which being once exactly mark'd for London may serve for other Places and for observing the Difference between the Air here and in other Places and in most differing Climates as in the Torrid and Frigid Zone it has another Ruler coming out perpendicular from the lower End of the Sliding Ruler that it may mark the heighth of the Mercury in the lower Leg of the Syphon so the Divisions in the upper end will tell you the Specifick Gravity of the Air at that Time I am the shorter in describing this because I have left with Mr. Papin lodging at Mr. Carpenters in Fridaystreet over against the Bell Inn the whole Method of this Contrivance Whether it will not be more serviceable both at home and abroad than that with stagnant Mercury I leave to the Judgment of the Ingenious Thirdly About the Water are to be considered 1. The Sea its Depth specifick Gravity Difference of Saltness in different Zones the Plants Insects and Fishes to be found in it Tides with respect to the adjacent Lands Currents Whirl-pools c. 2. Rivers their Bigness their Course their Inundations their Saltish Taste as they report observable in Jordan Subterraneous Passages fruitfulness of their Waters c. Their Lakes as that of Schernitzer in Carniola Ponds Springs and especially Mineral Waters what sorts of Earth they run through their Kinds Qualities and Vertues and how examin'd the Sorts of Fishes their Bigness and Goodness compared with the Ground at the Bottom their Plenty their Seasons their ways of Breeding their Haunts and the ways of Taking of them especially those that are not purely Mechanical Fourthly In the Earth may be observed I. It self II. Its Inhabitants and its Productions and those internal or external I. As to it self What are its Dimensions Situation East West South or North its Figure its Plains Hills or Valleys their Extent the highth of the Hills either in respect of the neighbouring Valleys or the Level of the Sea as also whether the Mountains lye scatter'd or in Ridges and whether those run North or South East or West c. What Promontories Fiery or Smoaking Hills c. the Country has or hath not whether subject to Earthquakes or
elswhere whether the Groove be perpendicular or crooked and if crooked after what manner and with what Distance it winds XXVII How the Groove is supported what are the Kinds Length Bigness and way of placing the Timber Poles c. that are employ'd to support it and how long the Wood lasts without being spoyl'd by the Subterraneous Fumes and Waters and what Wood lasts longest XXVIII What Air-shaft belongs to the Mine whether it be single or more than one of what Breadth the Air-shaft is at the Orifice whether it be convenient enough or not how near 't is plac'd to the Groove and in what Position if there be several Air-shafts what their Distances and Situation are in reference to the Grove and to each other and how Air is supply'd if there be no Air-shafts XXIX Whether they meet with Waters and what plenty there is of them at what Depth they are found and how qualified and what way they spring c. XXX Whether they are constant or Temporary whether they increase or diminish notably in Summer or at any Time of the Year and what that Season is how long it lasts and the Proportions of Increase and Decrease XXXI What Engines or Contrivances are made use of for drawing up the Water and conveying it away the Materials they are made of the Parts the Bigness the coaptation and in short the whole Structure number and way of applying the Instruments that are made use of to free the Mines from the Water XXXII What are the Conditions Number c. of the Adits XXXIII Whether the Mines be troubled with Damps and of what kind they are whether they come often or seldom at any Time of the Year or altogether irregularly XXXIV What Signs forerun them what Mischief they do what Remedies are the most successfully employed against them as well in referencce to the clearing of the Mine as to the Preservation and Recovery of the Men. XXXV What Methods the Mine-men use in following of the Vein and tracing their Passages under Ground which they call Plumming and Dyalling according to the several exegencies and whether they employ the Instruments made with the Help of the Loadstone the same way that is usual and if not wherein they differ in the Use of the same Instruments and what Instruments they substitute in their place XXXVI What ways they secure themselves against the uncertainty that the Magnetical Needle is subject to when it comes near to Iron Ore of which yet perhaps there is not so great Danger as one may imagine as far as I could find by a Tryal purposely made in a Groove where I was sure there wanted not Iron Ore and what other ways may be used besides a Load-stone to help a Miner XXXVII How the Miners deal with the Rock and Spar they meet with before they come at the Ore and how they use Fire to soften calcine or crack them with what Success they employ it XXXVIII By what means they free the Mines and the workmen from the Inconveniences arising from the much use of the Fire XXXIX With what Instruments they break the Rock how they are used and how long they last XL. How the Miners work whether cloathed or naked and what Lights they use to work by what Materials they are Made of and what Light they give how long they last and by what ways they are kept burning in that thick and foggy Air. XLI How Veins are followed lost and recover'd and how several Miners work on the same Vein and what is the best way of getting all the Ore in a Vein and most conveniently XLII How they convey out their Ore and other Things that are to be carried out of the Mine whether they do it in Baskets drawn up by Ropes or upon Mens Backs and if this last kind of way what kind of Vessels they use for Matter Shape and Capacity and whether the Workmen deliver them one to another or the same Workmen carry them all the Way and whether the Diggers descend and ascend by Ladders of Wood or Ropes c. About the Fifth Title XLIII Whether the Ore runs in a Vein or lye dispers'd in Scatter'd Pieces or be divided partly into a Vein partly into loose Masses or like a Wall between two Rocks as it were in a Cleft or be interspers'd in the firm Rock like speckled Marble or be found in Grains like Sand or Gravel as store of excellent Tin is said to be found in some Parts of Cornwal at the Sides and in the Channels of Running Waters which they call or whether the Ore be in a softer Consistence like Earth or Lome as there is Lead-Ore in Ireland holding store of Silver Iron-Ore in the North Parts of Scotland and elswhere and what is observeable in it as to Weight Colour Mixture c. XLIV Whether any part of the Metal be found in the Mine perfect and compleat as I have had presented me good valuable Copper and Pieces of perfect Lead that were taken up the one at Jamaica and the other by an Acquaintance of mine that took them out of the Ground himself in New-England XLV Whether the Mine affords any parcels of Metal that seem to grow like Plants as I have sometimes seen Silver grow as it seemed out of Stone or Spar almost like Blades of Grass as also great Grains of Metal which appear'd to me and which those that try'd some of it affirm'd to be Gold abounding in a stony Lump that seem'd chiefly to consist of a peculiar kind of Spar. XLVI Whether the Vein lye near the Surface of the Earth and at what Depth whether the Vein have not any peculiar concomitant Coats if I may so call them and if any what they are and in what Order they lye as the Veins of Lead-Ore with us have frequently annexed to them a Substance called Spar and next to that another call'd Caulk Whether besides these coats they have belonging to it any other Heterogeneous Substance as in Tin mines we often find that yellow Substance they call Mundick XLVII What are the principal Qualities of these extraneous Substances as that Spar is white but almost transparent like course Crystal heavy brittle easily divisible into Flakes c. Caulk is of a different Texture white opacous and like a Stone but much more ponderous Mundick I have had of a fine golden Colour but tho it be affirm'd to hold no Metal yet I found it in weight and otherwise to differ from Marcasites and the Mine-men think it of a poisonous Nature XLVIII Whether the Vein be inclos'd every way in its Coats or whether it lye only between them XLIX Whether the Vein be every way of an uniform Breadth and Thickness and if it be what these Dimensions are and if not in what Places it varies and in what measures the like Questions are to be made concerning the Spar Caulk and other Mixtures of the Ore L. Whether the Vein be uninterrupted or in some
Mantle that was clasp'd about her Neck being cast backward and all turned to Stone so hard that they could lift her and the Trough in which the Hands were without parting them or breaking any thing When he asked a Priest that was sent from the City to treat with the Commander What way this did happen he answer'd him That all the Inhabitants of that Place were Sodomites and that God rained down Fire and Brimstone from Heaven upon them upon her which they were all turned to Stones And for Proof of this he desired him to dig in the Sand with his Hand a Foot deep which he found like blue Ashes which said the Priests were the remainders of that Fire But to return to our Subject the next Enquiries shall be for Egypt And 1. Whether it rain at any Time and if so at what Time of the Year and what Influences that Rain hath upon the Air as to the making it Wholesome or Pestilential or otherwise unwholesome 2. To consider the Nitre that is made there to try what affinity there is between the Nitre we have and theirs whether it discover an Alcaly Nature by its colluctation with Acids as some report and whether after dissolving in Water Filtration and Evaporation it give Chrystals like to Nitre 3. Whether the Earth of Egypt adjoyning to the River Nilus preserved and weigh'd daily keeps the same Weight till the seventeenth of June and then grows daily heavier with the Increase of the River 4. Whether if the Plague be never so great before yet on the first Day of the Nile's Increase it not only not increaseth but absolutely ceaseth not one dying of it after and whether this be justly attributed to the swelling of the Nile or the cool Winds that happen about that Time and come from the dissolving of the Snows on the Riphaean Hills behind Greece which being impregnated with the Nitrous Particles of of the Snow doth both fan the Air of Egypt and communicate to it an Antipestilential Quality which I the rather am inclin'd to believe because Judicious Men do attribute in part the swelling of the Nile to these Etesiae that blowing hard on the Mouth of the Nile force its Waters back again into it's Channel which meeting with the Land-flood that is at the same Time occasion'd by the great Rains happening at that Time on the Mountains of the Moon do make the River overflow its Banks 5. To enquire particularly into the manner of hatching Eggs in Egypt how the Carnels Dung is prepar'd wherein they are laid how often the Eggs are turned how covered whether they hatch in one and twenty Days as they do with us under a Hen whether the Chickens be as perfect as ours if imperfect whether that may not happen to them with rough handling while they are removed being very tender out of the Place where they are hatched to take the Design of the manner how by the Pipes the Heat is conveyed to several Rooms how they treat them betwixt the Time of their Hatching and Taking away by the Owners whether they do not also use to hatch Eggs under Hens 6. To enquire if the Yellow-Amber that is sold in Egypt in great Quantity be the Gum of a Tree growing in Egypt or Ethiopia as Bellonius after Diodorus Siculus affirms and whether besides several Animals that are found inclosed in that Amber there is frequently found some Part of the Bark of a Tree sticking to it 7. To enquire of a certain Tree growing not far from Cairo which bears a Fruit stuffed with Wool that is finer than Silk of which the Arabs make Linnen that is softer than Silk and whiter then Cotton 8. Whether Crocodiles that are found to be sometime thirty Foot long are hatched of an Egg no bigger than a Turkey's 9. Whether the Ichneumon or Egyptian-Water-Rat can kill a Crocodile by skipping into his Mouth and gnawing his Way out as Old Writers affirm 10. Whether it be true That the Arabs can charm the Crocodiles or whether there be on the Nile's Side any Talismans or Constellated Figures beyond which the Crocodiles cannot pass as some would make us belive 11. To enquire at Cairo for several Drugs which are common there and much in use yet not brought into Europe as Acacia Calamus Odoratus Amomum Costus Ben Album and divers such others 12. Whether the Female Palm-Tree be not Fruitful unless she be planted by the Male as Some would bear us in Hand 13. To enquire whether the Appearance of Legs and Arms of Men related to stand out of the Ground to a great Number at five Miles from Cairo on Good Friday do still continue and how that Imposture is perfor'd 14. Whether Children born in the eigth Month do usually live there contrary to what is believed to happen elswhere 15. To take an account of the Wooden Locks there which are said to be made with as great Art there as our Locks here 16. To observe the Course of the Waters both in the Mediterranean and the Red Sea Enquiries for Guiny 1. Whether the River Niger overflows the Country yearly like Nilus 2. Whether the Rain when it falls be often very hot roting the Cloaths if not presently dryed and breeding Worms in them 3. Whether the Gold there be of very different Fineness and that which is uppermost in the Mine be the finest 4. Whether the Palm affords them Wine Oyl Vinegar Soap and Bread and whether out of the Leaves they pick Threds making thereof very curious Works 5. Whether they have besides their Palm-wine a Drink made of Grain like our Ale what Grain that is and how prepared 6. Whether some People on the River Gambra be only Tawny as others very Black 7. Whether the Negroes have such sharp Sights that they discover a Ship further off at Sea than an European can 8. What Reason there is to conclude That the common People being accustomed to drink Water is the cause that they are troubled with Worms in their Bodies very painful to them and difficult to get out Enquiries for Poland and the adjacent Countries especially such as are more Northerly 1. What is the way of making Pot-ashes in Poland 2. What is to be observed about Succinum or Amber whether it be an exudation of the Sea whether it be soft when 't is first cast on Shore at what Season of the Year and in what manner 't is taken up c. 3. What is to be observed in the digging of Sal Gemmae in Poland and what is the Depth of the Mines stored with the Salt and what their Distance from the Sea 4. What Truth there is in that Relation of Swallows being found under Waters congeal'd in Winter and reviving if they be fish'd and held to the Fire 5. Whether there be in the Bodnick Bay a Whirl-pool aâ— is related to be in the Sea oâ— Norway which is commonly called the Maal-stroom and whether there be any Signâ— that relate the
Stone near Fettipore not far from Agra in the Mogul's Dominions may be cleft like Logs and sawn like Planks to ciel Chambers and cover Houses therewith Likewise whether about Sadrapatan on the Coast of Cormandel there be a Stone of the like Nature so as seting a Wedge upon it one may cleave it with a Mallet as thick or as thin as one pleaseth and whether it be of the Nature of our Fire-stone that is prepared by the Stone-Cutters for Ovens 3. Whether upon the same Coast of Cormandel about Toutoucourin and that of Ceylan at Manar and Jafanapatan they fish Pearls as good as those about Ormus whether those Pearls are the better the deeper they lye what is the greatest depth they are known to have been taken at and whether it be true that some 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 Latitude between Paeleacate 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 abour 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 during 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 Watch-Men 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 cannot out run 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 Cloath 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 hasty drying thereof hurts it 15. Whether there grows a Wood in Java that naturally smells like Human 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 Poyson that kills by smelling and yet the Poysonous Smell is hardly perceived 19. Whether it be true That the only Antidote hitherto known against the Famous and Fatal Macassar Poyson is Human Ordure taken inwardly and what Substance that Poyson is made of 20. Whether there be such a Vegetable in Java called Mangas Bravas that is so poysonous that it kills presently and for which no Remedy hath been yet found 21. Where the best Calumba-Wood or Palo d'Aquila grows 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 Cordial 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 lye 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 over-heated themselves do by laying a Leaf or two of Betele upon their Breasts or Stomachs immediately cure the Inflammations and Recover 26. Whether the Papayas 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 di 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 itself into a whole Forest by shouting up and letting fall Roots
Supporters 27 Gambra 74 Gold-Mines in Hungary 85 Gum Lac 99 Glue of Harts-Horn 105 H Heavens 2 Hills 7 20 Heats 25 Honey Black 109 Herb-Musk 114 I. Ignes Fatui 15 Iron-Ore 31 Inquiries about Vegetables 48 to 57 Turky 58 Egypt 67 Guiny 73 Poland c. 75 Hungary and Transilvania 80 Suratte 87 Persia 101 Bermudas and Virginia 102 Antisles or Caribes 109 Animals or Insects 177 Ichneumen 71 Iron made Copper 84 Iron of Japan and Pegu 88 If Japan an Island 92 Junipa-Tree 109 Indian-Wood 110 L Lakes 6 21 Lightnings 23 Lights 24 Locks Wooden 72 Lake in Moravia 85 Lignum Aloes 93 Lucust of Brasil 107 Laitus Tree 111 Land-Pike 117 Lamantins or Sea-Calfs 118 M. Meteors 3 Magnet 8 Minerals ibid. Machinel Tree 9 Marles 10 24 Mines 11 12 the Signs ib. 25 Mists 24 Marcasite 24 25 Metals their Kind and Depth ibid. Miners Plumming and Dyalling 29 Work 31 Recovering Veins ibid. Metals grow 33 Mundick 35 ibid. Mercury 40 Mines if afford Vessels Anchors Ships Fishes c. 48 Mouslac 60 Mummies 61 Mediterranean 73 Maal-stroome 76 The Lying of Metals 83 Mangas Bravas 94 Manioc 111 Mancenille 115 N Needles dipping 12 Nitre Egyptian 67 Negroes sharp Sight 74 O. Ores and how they run 11 32 like Lome 33 Weight Colour Mixture ibid. if meliorated by Time 37 Signs of the Good and Bad 38 Proportion of Metals ibid. distinguishing Marks ibid. if Pure 39 Beating 40 Grinding ibid. Washing ibid. Tosting ibid. if exposed to the Air ibid. How Melted and facilitated 12 42. How taken out ibid. if often-melted 43 if the Best comes first or last in Melting 43 What its Flowers are 44 Opium 59 Mixture of Ores 83 Oysters at Java 99 Ovayamaca 120 P. Propontis 26 Plauge in Egypt 68 Palm-tree female 72 Palm pag. 73 Poyson that Works by Smelling 94 Poyson Macassrr ibid. Papayas 97 Pedro Porco 99 Plaster for Tanks 102 Poyson-Weed 104 Paretuvier-Wood 111 Palmetto Royal 112 Palma Christi 113 Purgative Kernel or rather Film of a Kernel ibid. Q. Quick-Silver in other Mines 82 R. Rivers 6. one not in Hungary 83 Rusma 58 Reame in Arabia 60 Rain in Egypt 67 breeding Worms in Guiny 73 Red Sea 73 Rhinoceros 100 Ring-Doves 110 Ricinus 113 S. Suns Retrogradation Salubrity or insalubrity of the Air 4 Sea 6 Salts 10 Sulphurs ibid. sea-Sea-waters Odor Taste Colours 12 Currents 13 Passages subterraneous ibid. Straits Map and Tides ibid. Sea-coasts 14 Depths and Shallows ibid. Scales nice 15 Sea's Saltness at the Bottom 17 Springs 21 Steams subterraneous 22 Soyl 22 Storms 23 Stones 24 Spar 30 35 Slag 45 Steell Damasco 59 Succinum 75 Sal Gemmae ibid. Swallows in Poland ibid. Salt-pits 81 Springs at Buda 84 Stones to be cleft and sawn like Planks 87 S. Helena 100 Silk-Grass 103 Spider in Bermudas 104 Soap-Wood 111 T. Turdados Tides Height Ebbings Flowings 14 at Helena 100 Thunders 15 23 Trees 22 Talismans 71 Thermae near Schemnitz 82 Tides near Mindan̄a 91 at Bermudas Virginia 106 Toades at Oronoque ibid. Tatou 116 Tortoise fresh Water 118 V. Vegetables 8 Vitriols 10 Virgula divinatoria 24 Veins their concomitants 34 how inclosed 34 if uniform 35 how terminate 37 Vitriol 80 Veins of Gold and Quick-silver 82 W. Weather 3 Winds 4 effects on the Sea 13 Times 15 Trade ibid. Waters 23 in Mines 28 Water-engines ib. Wood smelling like human Excrements 93 Red Wood burning without wasting 93 Wax black 120 Z. 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