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Indications of her Diftemper, that opening a 

 Vein would prefently give her Eafe and re- 

 cover her: which he did accordingly^ for 

 which he received an embroidered Handker- 

 chief inftead of a Fee, and gained the Repu- 

 tation of having done a mighty Cure. 



They have little df Ingenious or Solid 

 Learning among them ; their chief Study^ 

 next to the Alcorm^^ being metaphyfical Nice- 

 . ties about the Attributes of God^ or elle the 

 Maintenance of other odd Ipeculative No- 

 tions and Tenets, derived down, to them 

 from fome of their famed Mafters and Ho- 

 ly Men, whom they pretend to follow. Their 

 Knowledge of the motion of the Heavens, 

 for which the Arabians and the other Eaft- 

 ern Nations have been fo defervedly famous, 

 as their Aftronomical Tables of the Longi- 

 tude and Latitude of the fixed Stars, and 

 of the appulfe of the Moon to them, fully 

 evince, is now very mean, and is chiefly ftu- 

 dyed for the ufe of Judiciary Aftrology. The 

 great Inftrument they make ufe of is an 

 Aftrolable, with which they make very im- 

 perfed Obfervations, having no fuch thing 

 as a Quadrant or Sextant, much lefs a Tele- 

 fcope, or any mechanical Engine, to dired 

 and aflift them in their Calculation. Their 

 Skill in Geography is as inconfiderable ^ I re- 

 member I heard the Captain Bafla, whom 

 -they ftile Admiral of the Black and White 

 Seas, meaning the Evxim and the Mediter-^ 

 ranean^ ask this filly Queftion; whether 

 la?jd were out of the Streights ? and at ano- 

 ther time the Caymican or Governour of Conr 

 flantino^k^ hearing that England was an Ifland, 



