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being made almost breathless ; neither do 1 think the person that made it can 

 make it again. 



The spirit of sugar, here mentioned, was drawn from bare sugar-water, which 

 is nothing but the water wherewith the molds, aprons, &c. are washed, fer» 

 men ted with the scum. And it was so exceedingly volatile, that it would 

 not be carried, but lost all its force in the carriage, though it was very well 

 stopped. 



j^n Account of some Books. N" 130, p. 7^^' 



I. Roberti Boyle, Nobilissimi Angli et Soc. Regiae dignissimi Socii, Opera 

 Varia. Gen. in 4to. 1677. 



The works of this noble author having been already noticed in these Trans- 

 actions, at the several times when they came abroad singly, the editor on 

 looking over this Latin edition, shall only inform the reader; 1 . That this edi- 

 tion has been made without the consent and knowledge of the author. 2. That 

 the year in the frontispiece thereof is one and the same, as if the several books 

 contained in this Latin volume had been published in one year; and. that the 

 enumeration of the several treatises, made in the catalogue of this Latin edition, 

 is not according to the time wherein they were first printed. 



n. An Account of several Travels through a great Part of Germany in four 

 Journeys, &c. By Edw. Brown, M. D. Fellow of the College of Physic of 

 London, and of the Royal Society. Lond. 1677^ in 4to. 



This learned and curious author, having given a relation of some remoter 

 and less frequented countries of Europe in the year J 673, in this piece gives an 

 account of Vienna; describing also his journey unto that place from England, 

 by the Belgic Provinces and Germany ; as also his return from Vienna by Aus- 

 tria, Trans-Danubiana, Moravia, Bohemia, Misnia, Saxonia, unto Hamburg; 

 therein giving chiefly an account of the natural, artificial, and topographical, 

 observables ; with some of the customs and occurrences, which might be ac- 

 ceptable to the inquisitive reader, or serve as hints of further inquiry to such 

 persons as may hereafter travel into those parts. 



IIL Caspari Bartholini, Thomas filii, Diaphragmatis structura nova, un^ cum 

 Methodo prseparandi Viscera, &c. Par. 1676, in 8vo. 



A treatise on the structure of the Diaphragm, written when the author was 

 scarcely 22 years old. Subjoined is an account of his method of injecting the 

 viscera. The plates, as Haller has remarked, are very indifferent. This author 

 was son of Thomas Bartholin, of whom some biographical memoirs have been 



