VOL. XXIV.] PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. ^39 



jibstract of a Book^ entituled, Olai Rudbeckii^ Atlanticte sive Manheimii pars 

 secu7ida, &c. &c. UpsaU ; in folio. N° 300, p. 2012. 



The learned author in this second part of liis Atlantica, or Manheim,* has 

 given a further elaborate illustration of the northern history and antiquities. 

 He divides this great work into 1 1 chapters. In the first he states, that the 

 island Atlantica was not feigned by Plato, neither was it America, nur Africa, 

 nor the Canary islands, nor was it drowned in the sea, as many have thought, 

 but that it is Sweden itself. In the second chapter, he speaks of the 

 elegies of the ancient poets, of their abstruseness, and of the genuine way of 

 explaining them. Particularly in the third and fourth chapters, he treats of the 

 fables of the Scalds, or gothic poets, from whom he pretends the same was de- 

 livered to the Egyptians, the Greeks, and the Romans, &c. Chapter ^ve treats 

 of t!ie heliobatria, or sun worship, among the Atlantics, and of its origin, 

 with its propagation from thence through Europe, Asia, and Africa. In like 

 manner, chapter six and seven treat on northern geolatria, or earth worship ; 

 which likewise, lie says, in process of time extended through the same three 

 quarters of the earth. Also chapter eight treats on selanolatria, or moon wor- 

 ship of the north. Chapter nine on the Runic fasts, the inventor of which, he 

 says, was Atlas, king of the north. Chapter ten, on the tympana laponica, or 

 Lapland drums, also of Lapland witches, incantations, &c. Lastly, chapter 

 eleven, treats of the mensa Isiaca, or the tables of Isis, which the author ex- 

 pounds by the motions of the sun, moon, and earth. In short, the author 

 labours to prove that every thing relating to religion, customs, manners, lan- 

 guages, &c. was derived from the ancient inhabitants of the north, particularly 

 Sweden, Norway, Lapland, and even Iceland. 



Catalogus Conckarum Fossilium, Metallorum, Mineralium, ^c. quce a CI. D. 

 Johanne Jacobo Scheuchzero, M. D, Tiguri, et Societat, Reg. Angl. Soc, nuper 

 accepit D. Jacobus Petiver, S.R.S. N° 301, p. 2042. 



This catalogue contains a description of forty specimens of fossil-shells, 

 metals, minerals, &c. 



Epistola D. Joannis Philippi Breynii, M. D. et Societat. Reg. Soc. De Plantis 

 et Insectis quibusdam rarioribus in Hispania observatis. N° 301, p. 2045. 

 There is nothing in this letter concerning certain vegetables and insects, which 



at that time passed for rare, that is of sufficient importance to be reprinted. The 



* For an account of the first part, see p. 525, vol. ii. of this Abridgment,. 



