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For the rest, Sir, if you believe that a privilege, (so he calls a patent,) in 

 England would be worth something, and that either the Royal Society or you 

 might make some advantage thereof, I willingly offer you all I there might 

 pretend to. 



So that, if there was a desire in the publisher to take out a patent, it was for 

 no other contrivance, but M. Huygens's, formerly sent to the Royal Society, and 

 printed in N° J 12 of these Transactions. 



More Observations of Mons» Tavernier^s Voyages \ continued from the last Tract. 



N° 130, p. 731. 



The second volume of these voyages treats of East-India, and the neighbour- 

 ing islands, in three books : the first is of the roads from Ispahan to Agra, and 

 from Agra to Dehli, and Gehanabat, where the court of the Great Mogul is at 

 present ; as also to the court of the king of Golconda, and to that of the king 

 of Visapour, and to divers other places of India. The second is a historical and 

 political description of the empire of the Great Mogul. The third, a narrative 

 of the religion of the Mahometans in those parts, and of that of the Indian ido- 

 laters; with an account of the author's voyage by sea from Surat to Batavia in 

 Java Major, and from thence into Holland; interspersing many particulars of 

 divers kingdoms of the East. 



Among the many observables contained in this volume we take notice, that 

 there are to be met with, admirable jugglers and mountebanks in the road from 

 Surat to Agra by the way of Amadavat ; by some of whom the author affirms 

 he saw done what follows : they kindled a great fire, and in it heated some iron 

 chains red hot, which they laid about their bodies, without receiving any appa- 

 rent hurt. They took also a little piece of wood, and having fixed it in the earth, 

 they demanded of the spectators what kind of fruit they would have grow upon 

 it; it being answered, mangos; one of the jugglers covered himself with a linen 

 cloth, and stooped down to the ground five or six times. At which time one of 

 the spectators having placed himself so that he could observe what the juggler 

 did, saw, that with a razor he cut his flesh under his arm-pits, and with the 

 blood thence issuing, rubbed the piece of wood. Whereupon every time that 

 he raised himself from stooping, the planted stick of wood was visibly grown; 

 and at his third rising, branches came forth with buds; at the fourth, the tree 

 was covered with leaves: and at the fifth, blossoms were seen upon it. 



That the author affirms to have given us an exact list of all the merchantable 

 commodities, furnished by the empire of the Great Mogul, and the two king- 

 doms of Golconda and Visapour, and other neighbouring states; and of all that 

 nature and art afford there : viz. silks ; various cloths, white and painted; cot- 



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