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the advantage of Divini.* The great Duke of Tuscany, and Prince Leopold, 

 his brother, upon trial made of both their glasses, have found that those of 

 Campani excel the other ; and that, with them, they have been able easily to 

 distinguish people at four leagues distance. 



A further Relation of the Whale-Fishijig about the Bei^mudas, and on 

 the Coast of New-England and New-Netherland. N^S, p.} 32. 



The person who communicated the particulars respecting the new Whale- 

 fishing near the Bermudas, mentioned in the first of these tracts, gives this 

 further information : That about two years since, there stranded on the coast 

 of New-England a dead whale, of the species which is called Trumpo, having 

 teeth resembling those of a mill, and -its mouth at a good distance from, 

 and under the nose or trunk, having several boxes or partitions in the nose, 

 like those in the tails of lobsters. And that being opened, there run out of it a 

 thin oily substance, which congealed ; after which, the remainder, being a 

 thick fatty substance, was taken out of the same part with a scoop : And this 

 substance, he affirmed, is the spermaceti ; adding further, that the blubber 

 of the same sort of whales, when stewed, yields on the top a. creamy substance, 

 which when thrown upon white wine lets fall a dirty heterogeneous sediment ; 

 but what remains above affords a spermaceti-like matter. 



He concluded by observing, that these whales were to be met with between 

 the coast of New-England and New-Netherland, where they might be caught 

 eight or nine months in the year, whereas those about the Bermudas are to be 

 found only in the months of February, March, and April.-|- 



Of a remarhable Spring near Paderhorn in Germany. N" 8, p. 133. 



In the diocese of Paderborn, about two leagues from that town, is a spring, 

 called metborn, with three streams, two of which are not above one foot and a 

 half distant from each other, and yet of such different qualities, that one of 



* Eustachio Divini was an ingenious Italian artist of those times, very eminent for his telescopes, 

 though, as it seems, inferior to Campani. He wrote against the discovery of Saturn's ring, made by 

 Huygens, contesting the truth of it. Divini was living in l663 3 but the time of his birtli or death 

 is not ascertained. 



f The species of whale here meant is the Physeter macrocephalus, Lin. The large fish mentioned 

 in the latter part of the paper (and which is here omitted) seems to be the Xiphias platypterus or 

 broad-finned sword-fish, which Dr. Bloch ratlier chuses to consider as a species of Scomber. It is 

 a great enemy to whales, which it wounds, and probably sometimes kills by striking them witli its 

 horn or snout. It sometimes attacks ships in the same manner, and is supposed to mistake them for 

 wliales ; breaking the horn or snout with die violence of the effort, and leaving a part imbedded in 

 the timber. 



