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| the Toad, willbe .muchunder Sage, that Frogs will be in Cinquefoil, It ma b 
all other. The Olive hath the -oyly part onely on the outfide, whereas all | 
other Fruits have itin the Nator Kerncl. The Fire hath (in effeét) no Stone, | 
"Nut, nor Kernel 5 except you will count the little Grains, Kernels. The } 
| Pomegranate and Pine-Apple haye onely, amongi{t Fritts, Grains, diftiné.in 4 
{everal Cells. No Herbs have curled Leaves, but Cabbage and Cabbage- ia 
Lettuce. .None have double Leaves, one belonging tothe Stalk, another to } 
thatthe Wood-bine-hath. This may bea large Fieldof Contemplation; for } 
-diverfified; in others, fuch as hapneth rarely, and admitreth little variety. t 
| viffes ; Grows with Ravens, Daws, and Choughs, &c. But Elephants and 
Swine amongft Beafts, and theBird of Paradife, and the Peacock amongft} 
| Natural Fiflory’, | 
It hath been oblerved, that fome Herbs like beft being watcre qWi ve 
Salt-water; as Radifh, Beet, Rue, Penny royal, This tryal would be ¢ ctended | 
to fome other Herbs; efpecially fuch as are ftrong, as Tarragon, Miflart-| 
OR a Pet t. 9°) 10 open ae 
feed, Rocket, andehe like, .. | : | A \ dja 
_ Iris tteanges that itis generally reccived, how fome poy fonous Beatts 
afiect odorate and wholfome Herbs ; as, that the Snake loveth Fennel, that 
it is racher the Shade, Or other Coverture, that ‘they taKe kine a, neta 
virtue of the Herb. . Mg via te 
Ie were a matter of great profit, ( fave that Idoubt itis tooconjeEtural | 
to venture upon) if one could difeern what Corn, Herbs, or Fruits, are like | 
to be in Pienty or Scarcity, by fome Signs and Prognofticks in the begin | 
ning of the year : For as for thofe that are like to be in Pleny, they may bé rs 
bargained for upon the Ground; as the oldrelation was of Thales, who to 
fhew how eafie it was for a Philofopher tobe rich, when he forctaw a great | 
plenty of. Olives, made a Monopoly of them. And for Scarcity, Men may | 
make profit in keeping better the oldftore. Long continuance of Snow is F 
believed. to make a fruitiul year of Corn ; an early Winter, ora very late if 
Winter, a barren year, of Corn, ,an open and ferené Winter, an ill year of | 
Fruit.. Thefe we have partly touched before; but other Prognofticks of like 1, 
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nature are diligently to be enquired, 45 eens 
There (eem tobe in fome Plants fingularities, wherein they differ from | 
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the Fruutor Seed, but the Artichoak. No Flower hath that kinde of fpred | 
it fheweth, thatinthe Frame of Nature there is, in the producing of fome 
Species, a compofition. of Matter, which hapneth oft, and may be fotich | 
For fo-ir is likewite in Beats ; Dogs have a refemblance with Wolves and | 
Foxes, Horfes with Affes, Kine with Bufles, Hares with Coneys, &e. And] 
(oin Birds; Kites and Keftrels have a refemblance with Hawks ; Common | 
Doves with Ring-Doves and Turiles ; Black-Birds with Thrufhes and Ma- | 
Birds, and (ome few others, haye fcarce any other Species that have affinity | 
| with them. Z 6 toy ‘ Aa 4 s10n i 
~ ‘We leave the Defcription of Plams and their Virtues to. Herbals, and} 
other like Books of Natural Hifory, wherein Mens diligence hath b en | 
great, evento Curiofity. For ous Experiments are onely-fuch, as do ever} 
a{cend a degree tothe derivin ofCaufes,and extracting of Axioms,x 
we are not ignorant, but thatfome, both ofthe Ancien agd Modern VPrie 
have alfo labored ;. but their Gaufesand Axioms are fofull of Imagina 
and fo infected with the oldreceived Theories, as, they are meer Inqu 
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| _ ops of Experience, and concod it nor. 
