VOL. XXVII.] PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. 647 



mentioned circumstances, I take to be the appearance of light in such a 

 medium. 



Johannis Freind, M. D. Oxon. Prcelectionum Chymicarum Findicicey in quibus 

 Objectiones, in Aciis Lipsiensibus Anno J 7 10. Mense Septembri^ contra Vim 

 Materi(S Attractricem allatc^, diluuntur. N° 331, p. 330. 



Although in his Praelectiones Chemicae Dr. Freind has displayed great in- 

 genuity ; yet in his eagerness to apply the Newtonian philosophy to the phaeno- 

 mena of chemistry, he has not duly distinguished elective attraction from the 

 attraction of gravitation, and the attraction of cohesion. Hence it would be 

 no ways interesting at this day, to insert the whole, or even an abstract, of this 

 defence, grounded on the before-mentioned general properties of matter, and 

 not upon specific chemical agencies. 



An Account of a Book, entitled, Gazophylacii Nature et Artis, Fbl. I. in 

 5 Decadibus. In quo Animalia, viz. Quadrupeda, Aves, Pisces, Reptilia, 

 Insecta, JTegetabilia ; item Fossilia, corpora Marina, et Stirpes Minerales t 

 Terra eruta, Lapides Jigurd insignes, &c. Descriptionibus brevibus et Iconibus 

 illustrantur. A Jacobo Petiver, Pharmacop. Londin. et Reg. Societ. Soc, 

 N''331, p. 342. 



This volume contains 50 tables of the figures of divers rare beasts, birds, 

 fishes, serpents, and other reptiles ; as also several rare insects, shells, plants 

 and fossils, many of which the author obtained from the cabinets of several 

 curious persons, and procured others from all parts of the world. 



An Account of a New Island, raised up from the Bottom of the Sea, on the 23d 

 of May 1707, in the Bay of Santorini, in the Archipelago. By Father Goree, 

 a Jesuit, who ivas an Eye-witness, N° 332, p. 354. 



Among the prodigies of nature, and the most surprising things which she 

 has at any time produced, we may justly reckon an island, raised up from the 

 bottom of the sea, in the bay which makes the harbour of the isle of Santorini, 

 in the Archipelago ; especially if we consider the situation, manner, and all the 

 other circumstances of the formation of this new island. For what can be 

 more surprising, than to see fire, not only break out of the bowels of the 

 earth, but also to make itself a passage through the waters of the sea, without 

 being extinguished ? Or what can be more extraordinary, or foreign to our 

 common notions of things, than to see the bottom of the sea rise up into a 

 mountain above the water, and to become so firm an island, as to be able to re- 



