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lights, by placing divers nets about the sides of this Vessell, 

 shooting the greater sort of them with guns, which may 

 be put out of the ship by the help of such bags as were 

 mentioned before, with divers the like artifices and treach- 

 eries, which may be more successively practised by such 

 who live so familiarly together. These fish may serve not 

 only for food, but for fewell likwise, in respect of that 

 oyl which may be extracted from them; the way of dress- 

 ing meat by lamps, being in many respects the most con- 

 venient for such a voyage. 



"The many fresh springs that may probably be met 

 with in the bottom of the sea, will serve for the supply of 

 drink and other occasions. 



"But above all, the discovery of submarine treasures is 

 more especially considerable, not only in regard of what 

 hath been drowned by wrecks, but the several precious 

 things that grow there, as Pearl, Coral Mines, with in- 

 numerable other things of great value, which may be 

 much more easily found out, and fetcht up by the help 

 of this, than by any other usual way of the Divers. 



"To which purpose, this great Vessel may have some 

 lesser Cabins tyed about it, at various distances, wherein 

 several persons, as Scouts, may be lodged for the taking of 

 observations, according as the Admiral shall direct them. 

 Some of them being frequently sent up to the surface 

 of the water, as there shall be occasion. 



"All kinds of arts and manufactures may be exercised 

 in this Vessell. The observations made by it, may be both 



