CONTAINING A 



COLLECTION 



Of fome of the Principal 



PHENOMENA 



N A T U R E, 



Accounted for by the Greateft Phi- 

 lofophers of this Age; 



BEING THE 



Moft Valuable Discourses, Read and 

 Delivered to the Royal Soci et y, 

 for the Advancement of Phyfical and Ma- 

 thematical Knowledge. 



As alfo a Collection of Curious Travels, Voyages, 

 Antiquities, and Natural Hifiories of Countries ; 

 Prefented to the fame Society. 



In Three VOLUM ES. 



The Second Edition ; To which is added, A Difcourfeof the In- 

 fluence of the Sun and. Moon on Humane Beiie/j &c. By 

 R. MEtAD, M. D' F.R. S. And alfo Yontenelle's Preface of 

 the Vfefulnefs of Mathematical Learning. 



V O L. I. 



L O N D O N: 

 Printed by J. M. for 2^. Smith, at the Bible under the 

 Pia^aoi the F{pyal Exchange in CornhiU. 1708. 



