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J\(aturall Hiflory : 



Experiment 

 Solitary ,touch 

 ; Ckamele- 



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Experiment 

 Solitary, 

 touching Sub- 

 terrany t ires. 



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Experiment 

 Solttary,touch 

 ing Nitre. 



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Experiment 

 Solitary ,touch 

 ing Congealing 

 of Aire. 



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dies: But this Difgejlion is by a great Compafle, as hath ■ been faid. As for 

 the more full Handling of thefe two Principles, whereof this is but a Tafte 5 

 (the Enquiry of which is one of the Profoundeft Enquiries of Nature, ) We 

 leave it to the Title of Verfwn of Bodies-, And likewife to the Title of the Firfi 

 Congregations of Matter-? Which like a Generall AfTembly of Eltates, doth 

 give Law to all B odies. 



A Chameleon is a Creature about the Bigneffe of an Ordinary Lizard? 

 His Head unproportionably bigge ■? His eyes great : He moveth his 

 Head without the writhing of his Neck •, ( which is inflexible, ) as a Hogge 

 doth : His Back crooked ■? His Skinne fpotted with little Tumours, lefle 

 Eminent nearer the Belly-,His Taile Uender, and long .• On each Foot he 

 hath five Fingers-, Three on the Outfide, and two on the Infide-, His Tongue 

 of a marvellous Length in refpect of his Body, and hollow at the end-, which 

 he will launch out to prey upon Flies.Of Colour Green and of a dusky Yel- 

 low,brighter and whiter towards the Belly*, Yet fpotted with Blew, White, 

 and Red. If he be laid upon Green, the Green predominated If upon 

 Yellow, the Yellow-, Not fo,if he be laid upon Blew,or Red,or White-, On- 

 ly the Green Spots receive a more Orient Luftre^ Laid upon Black, he 

 looketh all Black, though not without a Mixture of Green. He feedeth 

 not only upon Aire, ( though that be his principal Suftenance-, ) For fome- 

 times he taketh Flies, as wasfaid^ Yetfome that have kept chameleons a 

 whole year together ,could never perceive that ever they fed upon any Thing 

 elfe but Aire-, And might obferve their Bellies to fwell after they had exhau- 

 fted the Aire, and clofed their Jawes-, Which they open commonly againft 

 the Rayes of the Sunne. They have a foolifh Tradition in Magick, that if a 

 Chameleon be burnt upon the Top of an Houfe, it will raife a Tempeft,Sup- 

 pofing (according to their vain Dreams of Sympathies) becaufe he nourifheth 

 with Aire, his Body mould have great vertue to make Impreflion upon the 

 Aire. 



IT is reported by one of the Ancients, that in Part of Media,theve are Erup- 

 tions of Flames out of Plainest And that thofe Flames are clear, andcaft 

 not forth fuch Smoak, and allies , and Pumice, as Mountaine Flames do. 

 The Reafon(no doubt)is,becaufe the Flame is not pent, as it is in Mountains, 

 and Earth-quakes which calf Flame. There be alio fome Blind Fires? under 

 St one, \v\\ic\\ flame not out,but Oile being powred upon them, they flame out. 

 The Caufe whereof is,for that it feemeth, the Fire is fo choaked, as not able 

 to remove the Stone, it is Heat rather than Flame? Which neverthelefle 

 is fuflicient to Enflame the oile. 



]Tis reported, that in tome Lakes, the Water isfo Nitrous, asifFoule 

 Cloaths be put into it, it fcoureththem of it felf : And if they ftay any 

 whit long, they moulder .away. And the fcouring Vertue of Nitre is the 

 more to be noted, becaufe it is a Body Cold- 7 And we fee Warm Water fcou- 

 reth better than Cold. But the Cau[e is, for that it hath a Subtill Spirit, -which 

 fevereth and divideth any thing that is foule, and Vifcous, and fticketh upon 

 a Body. 



TAke a Bladder, thegreateft you can get ; 5 Fill it full of Wind, and tye 

 it about the Neck with a Silk thred waxed And upon that likewife 

 Wax very dofe-, So that when the Neck of the Bladder drieth, no Aire may 

 poflfibly get in,nor out. Then bury it three or foure foot under the Earth, in 

 a Vault, or in a Conservatory of Snow, the Snow being made hollow about the 



Bladder^ 



