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dry, and their bodies fhriveled up, which, rubbed gently betwixt 
one's hands, will crumble into grains, and the wings will fall 
from them, which mufl be garbled out : Others, it is laid, expole 
them to the fun in broad and fhallow copper balbns, wherein the 
reflection of the fun will dry them fooner : The tree, or fhrub, 
on which they breed, called the prickly-pear, or Indian Ffg, is 
cafily and quickly propagated, by putting a fingle leaf, aCovc 
half its depth, into the ground, which feldom fails to take root, 
and emit other new leaves at the top thereof^ others fay, they 
may be raifed from the feed or fmall grains, which are to be 
found in the proper feaibn in the fruit, which is fomething like a 
fig, arifing outof certain yellow flowers, or blofl'oms, that grow 
out at the tops of the uppermoft leaves 5 which fruit is full of a 
red pulp, that, when fully ripe, llains the hands, like mulberries, 
with a purple or blood colour j on which, or on the bloflbms, 
feme fay the infedts feed j which pofTibly may be the caufe of 
that rich tincture within their bowels. 
^^e "Prejfure 0/ Water in great Depthi. Phil. Tranf N° 193. 
p. 504. 
OFF of Tmtdlara^ near Sicily^ a bottle was let down 
leventy fathoms, flopped with a very good tender cork, well 
fitted, and the cork came up in the bettle, which was f full of 
falt-water^ the bottle was again fitted with an excellent good 
cork, but of a woodineis or hardnefs fome corks are of, with 
which being let down in the fame manner, the cork continued in 
its place, but bruiled, as it were 3 and the bottle, as before, about 
\ full of f^lt watery whereupon, a good ox-bladder was bound 
four-fold over the mouth of the bottle, without any cork at all, 
only a piece of leather was put to prevent the glals's cutting the 
bladder 5 and thus it was let down as before, but taken up with- 
out any water, or the leafl moifture therein 5 at the diftance of 
ibme leagues from the coaft o{ South Spai)U off the great hills of 
Granada^ a leather was tied on the mouth of a bottle, tying 
over that a fingle part of the bladder, and the bottle was funk 75 
fathoms, but it came up again entire 3 then a hole was made in 
the leather, about the bignels of a large pea, and the bottle was 
zww limk 7 5 fathoms, but it came up perforated in the vacant^ 
place, where the leather had the hole* in if, and almoft full of 
watery then another part of the bladder was bound fingle over it, 
and let down but 50 fathoms, but it came up whole and entire; 
after which it was funk 50 fathoms, and it came up broken, and 
the bortlc full of watery then the bottle was fitted again, with 
the 
