6gO PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. [aNNO 1672. 



SO high and intense a colour, that it must be mixed with the essaye of arrical or 

 ortacour, to qualify its intenseness. This is only in the power of the governor 

 of that place. That the great traffic in diamonds and rabies is at Masulipatan; 

 that diamonds are digged in the countries of Golconda and Decan, behind Ben- 

 gala, near the town Basilaga; the prince whereof keeps a continual guard there, 

 reserving for himself all such stones as weigh above 25 mangelys or carats. The 

 old rock is in the country of Deyam, yielding the best diamonds of all. Borneo 

 likewise is famous for these stones, and especially the town Bangar Massing. 

 That the plant which yields the indigo, bears a flower like that of thistles, and 

 a seed like that of faenum Graecum : that being first sown, it holds out three 

 years. That thea is by the people of China esteemed wholesomest when taken 

 fasting, and without sugar; that the Dutch use it much in India for health and 

 cheerfulness ; that it is very diuretical, and opening the kidneys, and causing 

 free respiration ; that the best grows in the province of Kiangnan in China, 

 about the town Hocicheu; that when good the leaves yield a very pleasing 

 scent; that the thea of China far excels that of Japan. That in Patiarapalli, one 

 of the provinces of Jafnapatnam, the elephants by the strength of their body 

 bear down every year abundance of wild palm-trees, when their fruit is ripe. 

 That in Paletiva, one of the small isles near Jafnapatnam, the people catch the 

 wild horses there by chasing them into a water pool, and so mastering them 

 with nooses. That the wild elephants are by the tame females of the same 

 kind as it were duckoyed into a lodge with trap doors, where by hunger and 

 long wakes, and the discipline exercised upon them by tame elephants, they 

 are at length tamed themselves. That Ceylon abounds, besides elephants and 

 wild horses, with buffaloes, oxen, cows, sheep, hogs, goats, deer, elks, wild 

 boars, tygers, bears, jackals, apes, peacocks, nightingales, larks, snipes, par- 

 tridges, pigeons, geese, crows, kites, owls, &c. The jackals are so greedy after 

 man's flesh that the inhabitants are fain to keep their dead from them by cover- 

 ing their sepulchres with large stones. To which he adds, that their flesh is 

 very medicinal for a consumption. That Ceylon affords divers sorts of precious 

 stones, as rubies, sapphires, topazes, granates: and mines also of gold, silver 

 and iron, but that the kings of the island will not suffer the royal metals to 

 be dug up. That the commodities for trade in Ceylon are, stained stuffs, silks 

 porcelain, spices, camphire, ambergris, radix chinas, amphion, muscus, santal 

 salt-petre, sulphur, lead, copper, tin, &c. 



II. Antonii le Grand Institutio Philosophiae, secundum principia Renati Des- 

 cartes; nova methodo adornata et explicata. 

 This author has with much industry and clearness laid together, in this small 



