124 PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. [aNNO 1674. 



jin Account of tivo Books. N° 100, p. 6194. 



I. Musica Speculativa del Mengoli, Dottor dell' una et I'altra Legge, et P. P. 

 de scienze Mechaniche nello Studio di Bologna. Bolog. 1670, in 4to. 



In this work, the author gives a minute anatomical description of the ear, 

 and the mechanism or manner in which he thinks sound is conveyed to the 

 mind, by the pulses of air acting on the ear. He afterwards treats on the theory 

 of music, after his own way. 



II. Georgii Wedelii M. D. Specimen Experiment! Novi, de Sale Volatili 

 Plantarum. Franc. 1672, in l!2mo. 



END OF VOLUME EIGHTH OF THE ORIGINAL. 



Description of Nova Zemhla ; hy a Person at Amsterdam. N* 101, p. 3. Vol. IX. 



I herewith send you what I have received out of Muscovy, which is a new 

 map of Nova Zembla and Weigats, as it has been discovered by the express 

 order of the Czar ; and drawn by a painter, called Panelapoetski, who sent it 

 to me from Moscow ; by which it appears, that Nova Zembla is not an island, 

 as hitherto it has been believed to be ; and that the Mare Glaciale is not a sea, 

 but a sinus or bay, the waters of which are sweet. Which is also affirmed by 

 the Tartars who have tasted those waters in the very middle of the bay. The 

 Samojeds, as well as the Tartars, unanimously affirm, that passing on the back of 

 Nova Zembla, at a considerable distance from the shore, navigators may well 

 pass as far as Japan. And it is a fault in the English and Dutch, that seeking 

 a passage to Japan on the south-side of Nova Zembla, they have almost always 

 passed the Weigats. The Weigats itself is very difficult to pass, because of the 

 great quantity of ice falling into it from the river Oby, by which the strait 

 passage is stopped up. The Samojeds go every year a fishing on the said sweet 

 sea, and that on Nova Zembla side.* 



On extracting Volatile Salt and Spirit out of Vegetables. By Dr. Daniel Coxe, 



F.R.S. N°ioi, p. 4. 



In this paper, the author states that he has extracted from various vegetables 



* Notwithstanding what is said in this paper, concerning Nova Zembla, and the north-eastern 

 passage to Japan and China, modern geography, and probably with reason, represents the first as an 

 island, and the voyage by that route as impracticable at least, if not impossible. 



