C"4) 
and many othcrSj ufed in PublickFcftiTiticSj are defcribcd. 
Eighthly^ of (omt Mechanical Arts^ as that of Gold^fuz/^l 
Black* Jf^iths^ Copper*fmiths^tVyre'dravpers^ in the laft where- 
of he refolvcs this Pr(9Wei%i 5 a certain weight of Mcttal^and 
the bignefs of the holcj through which the Wy re is to be 
drawn, being gircflj to fiade into what Iwgth fo much Men- 
tal can b$ fpun out. 
Thus you have a view of this whole Volume 5 to which it 
may perhaps not be amifsto addc, for a Conclufion, fome 
of thofe Particulars which are eflrecmcd by the Author to 
out-Chine the reft, and are here and there inter- woven as 
fuch. For example^ in the Firfl Part, 
The ufc of Pindnles^ for knowing by their means the 
fiate of ones Healthy from the different beatings of the Pulfe^ 
Pag. 5r, 
The chain of MoH^fains^ fo drawn over the Earthy that 
they make, as it were, an Axis^ paffing from Pole to Pole s 
and fevcral tranfverfe duSus^ fo cutting that Axis^ as to 
make, in a manner^ an Equator and TropUks of Mountains: 
by which concatenation he imagines. That the feveral parts 
of theEarth arebound together for more firmnefs, pag.Cg, 
A Relation of a ftrange Diver^ by his continual converfe 
in Water, fo degenerated from him&lfj That lie was grown 
more likean Amphibium^ then a Man, who, by the command 
of a King, went down to the bottom of Charybdis^ 
and brought a remarkable account of the condition of that 
place pag. 98. 
A Ocfcription of the Origineof the iV/Zc, as this Author 
found it in a certain MS of one of his ovax Society ^ called 
Teter Fais^ whom he affirms tohayeb^en an Eyc-witnefs, 
and to havevifltcd the lltzdofl^)^^ Ewperoref Ethiopia 
himfclf Afi^o 16 1 8. which Mamfcript^ he faith, was brought 
toRoMe-^ out of (L/ifrtca^ by their Procurator of India zxiA 
^^thiopia^ pag,j2. 
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