392 NATURAL HISTORY. 



Experiment solitary touching chambletting of paper. 



741. The Turks have a pretty art of chamblet 

 ting of paper, which is not with us in use. They 

 take divers oiled colours, and put them severally, in 

 drops, upon water, and stir the water lightly, and 

 then wet their paper, being of some thickness, with 

 it, and the paper will be waved and veined, like 

 chamblet or marble. 



Experiment solitary touching cuttle-ink. 



742. It is somewhat strange, that the blood of 

 all birds and beasts and fishes should be of a red 

 colour, and only the blood of the cuttle should be as 

 black as ink. A man would think, that the cause 

 should be the high concoction of that blood ; for we 

 see in ordinary puddings, that the boiling turneth 

 the blood to be black ; and the cuttle is accounted a 

 delicate meat, and is much in request. 



Experiment solitary touching increase of weight in 

 earth. 



743. It is reported of credit, that if you take 

 earth from land adjoining to the river of Nile, and 

 preserve it in that manner that it neither come to be 

 wet nor wasted ; and weigh it daily, it will not alter 

 weight until the seventeenth of June, which is the 

 day when the river beginneth to rise ; and then it 

 will grow more and more ponderous, till the river 

 cometh to its height. Which if it be true, it cannot 



