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could not be executed by thofe great Kings of Egjpt^ that rai-- 
fed fo many ftupendious Pyramids; although io his Opinion 
the reafons alleged by /-f?//0^/Vi^i/tojuftifie them for having a- 
bandoned that undertaking, areot no validity, and that the 
'E^d Sea cannot be, as they feared, higher than the ISih. and 
therefore not indangcr the inundation of Egypt, 
The other Propofition was made to Charles Magm.Anno 795, 
for joyning the Euxine Sea and the Ocean together, by a Chan- 
nelj which was begun for that end, anddcfigned to be 2000. 
paces long, and leo. paces broad, betwixt the River ^//^;?2z^ff, 
tdXVmg 'n-iloxh^ Danube dhovel^atubone, and the River Ko/^if^paf* 
fing at 'Nurenberg, and thence running into the Main^ and fb 
into the l^ine. But yet this alfo proved abortive, though there 
was great appearance of fuccefs at firft. 
Of the Way of hilling Ratie-Snakes. 
There being not long finceoccafion given at a meeting of 
the Society to difcourfe of ^atle^Snakes, that worthy and 
inquiluive Gentleman, Captain iS*//^ T<^y/^?r, related the man« 
ner, how they were killed in' Virginia , which he afterwards 
was pleafed to give in writing, attefted by two credible perlons 
in whofe prefcnce it was don \ which is, as follows. 
ThQ WWd penny-royal or Ditany oi Virginia^ groweth ftreight 
up about one foot high, with the leaves like Penny royal, with 
little blue tufts at the joyning of the branches to the Plant, the 
colour of the Leaves beino; a reddifli green, but the -Water di- 
ftilled , of the colour of Brandy, of a fair Yellow: the 
Leaves of it bruifed are very hot and biting upon the Tongue: 
and of thefe, fo bruifed, they took fome g and having tyed 
them in the cleft of a long ftick, they held them to the Nole of 
l\{Q Ratle>Sfia\e,vf\\o by turning and wriggHng laboured as m?ich 
as fhe could to avoid it : but me was killed with it, iq lefs than 
haU an hour's time, and, as was fuppofed, by the fcent thereof ; 
which was done Jnno 1 6 ^7 An the Month of July^zi which feafon, 
they repute thole creatures to be in the greateft vigour for their 
poifon, 
F 2 AJ^htion 
