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difcolours varioufly the Sea-water in the day-time, and makes it, if dark, ap- 
pear morc or lefs {hining, as it is more or le(3 in quantity. » Lopes de Gomara Hilt. Gener. 
tells us, that about Cubagua the Sea is at fome times Red by the Oyfters ap. 8. 
Spawn or Purgation, and Terry takes notice of Sea-water white as Milk Paz. 56. 
not near Land. Hatch in his Voyage publith’d by Purchas {peaks of Water Pap. 6:8; 
white as Whey, yet no Ground, and Fleynes of White Water no Ground, in Ib. p. 632. 
4°. South Lat. Douztoun tells us of Water muddy and thick, with {pots of clear, Id. p. 310. 
near India. And Weymouth of Water as black as Puddle, and clear again, 1b. p. Sto. 
yet without bottom, at 120 Fathoms. And Ffall Sailed in Black Puddle and 811. 
Water for three Hours. But to come nearer our matter in proving this 1 p.815- 
Conjecture. Battell in the Red-Sea falls in the Night on whitifh Spots , Ib. p. 1129. 
raifing and cafting Flames like Lightning, he wondering at it, took in 
the Sails prefently, believing they were on fome Banks or Shoals, and 
commanded to caft the Lead, and found Twenty fix Fathoms. Pilots: of 
the Country not fearing went on again, ib. Saris met with Cuttle-Fith in Apud Pur- 
failing from the Red-Sea to India in 8°: 12; the Wind was at Weft-South- chas, p. 352. 
Weft, Sep. 22. at midnight very dark, faw thining Water, ftrange and fear 
ful, fo as to difcern a Letter in the Book thereby, he failed in it half an 
Hour, not without fear of Rocks, but he tells us it was: from Curtle-Fith; 
and Cauche, p.20. tells us that the Worms that eat the Veflels, fhine in the 
Night. . ) 
When we were about Forty Leagues off the Land, we had a Lark which 
had come, or been driven too far from Land by a Storm, perch’d on 
the Ships Rigging ; it was fo tir’d that it fuffer'd any Body to come within 
Arms length of it before it would ftir, and would have permitted us to have 4 Lark 
caught it rather than have gone into the Sca, had it not efpied theother Ships, ¢riven forty 
to fome of which it went for refting icfelf when ‘twas fear’d from ours, Leagues t0 
‘Tis very ordinary for Land-Birds thus to be driven off to Sea, ‘and to light‘on °*4 
Ships, being lean and wearied on the Wing ; (o-Wartens, tap.2. tells .us'that 
Blackbirds, Starlings, and all {mall Birds lofe their way in a Storm, and can- 
not recoyer it but citlier-drop and are drowned, or fit on Ships + and: that a 
Crow hefaw (at Spitzbere): by miftake had thus come aftray. 
- On Tuefday 1x. When we were in'about Forty fix Degrees of Northera'La« 
titude J fet faw what~the Seamen call a Caravel or. P ortugucle Man of War, 4 Caravel 
which feems co be a Zoophytum, or of a middle Nature between a’ Plant and de(cribed. 
an Animal ; dt is-of thatskind of ‘the: foft Fifles called Urtice from their 
Stinging quality, and to-me feems different from any deferib’d by any natural 
Hiftorian.” J fhall call’ it Urtica Marina, foluta, purpurea, oblonga, ‘cirrbis 
longiffiemes. - : , | se 
Itis taken notice'ot by Stevens apud Flakluyt, p-99. where it ‘is‘called a Ship 
of Guinea, and by de Lery, p. 399+. under the name of Jmmondicites Rouges. 
Martens'calls ie the other fort of Sea-Nettle in the Spanifh Seas that Weighs 
feveral Pounds, ef a‘Bhae, Purple, “Yellowith, and White colour, that burn 
more violéntlythan thofe of the North-Sea, they do fuck themfelves fo clofe 
to the Skin that they: did raife Blifters; and caufe fometimes St. ee. 
He fays further that one fort of this is called’ Sea-Spider, and‘is the Food of 
Whales, which may, by the wayj‘explain a Paflage of Peynere‘in his” non. 
mous Book, called Relation. de Groenland, where the Author ‘tells us, thar | 
Whales feed'on Araneés” di Mer. Ligon calls’ it Carvile’';and obferv'd’ it Pag: 6. 
‘Five hundred Leagues from Latids and they are named Gyaades Urtice by de 
Lact, who takes noticeof them imBrafl. "© 4 OA Gk Libs seet 
This ‘floated on thé Surface of ‘the Water, arid confifted of two parts) the p. 573. 
one was an oblong Cylindrical Bladder not fo big as a Turkey-Ege, it was 
as it were blowaup, and full of Wind; almoftlike the Swim of 2 Fith, wideft 
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