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produce a great variety of different: Herbs, and that the Afties of Corn 
burnt, being fown,have fometimes produced other Corn. 
To add that by the by , this Author is not fo addided to AriBotU^ 
as to be on his fide, when he thinks Truth is not. ^le hath emancipated him- 
felf confiderably komxhQ SchoUftick^ way of Phitofophing. Hedares rnain- 
taiujihac the Vegetative and Scnlitive Souls are noli Spikfiantial Vorms • and 
that it is with Plants and Animals, as with Artificial things, the Form 
whereof refults from the Union and Difpofitioii of the parts; According 
to this Hjpothefis he explicates all the Operations of Plants and Animals, 
without tiaving any rccourfe to the Soul. He avers alfo, that there are no 
Species Intentionales, and no Habitudes, and that the Animal Spirits, which 
Philofophers commonly believe to be neceffary for all the Operations of Life, 
are ufeiefs^ 
It mighc alfo be obferved out of this Author, what he difcourfes of the 
Generation of Animals by Putrefadion of theCaufeof intermittent Fea- 
vers, and of the Animal fnflind , and of many other particulars ^ were ic 
not better to refer the curious to the Bookitfelf« 
HI. RELATION DV VOYAGE de V Evef^ue de Beryte , par 
U Tfiriime , la Ferfe^ les Inies^ &c» jH^cjues au Roy aums de SuJf^i & autres 
licux par M. de Bcurges, Vrcflre &c. 
This Auihor impioying his Pen chiefly, according to his defign, to give 
an Accompt of the Succefs, the Undertakers of this Voyage had, in pro- 
pagating the Chriftian Faith in the remoter parts of the World, and relating 
on that occafion, What number of Churches they have Founded in Cochin^ 
China, dind the Kingdom of 7'f;?f ?)'fX ( in which latter alone he affirms, thac 
there ar« more than three hundred thou fa nd Chriftians ; ) being ! (ay prin- 
cipally intent upon that Subjed, he feems not to have made many philofophi- 
cal obfervations in thofe places. Mean while he does good fervice to thofe 
that have occafion to travel, into the Ea/t' Indies moftly by Land, by d«fcri- 
bingthe paffage, rhey took thither which was, That they embarqueda? 
Ji/Urf(illes, in September^xht moft convenient and favourable feafon for 
that Voyage-, whence Ships do ordinarily pafs every Month from Syria, 
reckoning one Month forthetimeof S^yl'mg^to Aiexandrettd, Thence to 
^/f/j o, counting one Month more for the Stay, to be made there to meet the 
Cardvane for Bdylon, and fix weeks more for the march from Alqpo to Ba- 
hjloyi '^ where a formight will pafs ^before an opportunity happen to embarque 
upon the Tyger for ^alfora • which Journey will require a fortnight more :■ 
And about this time it will be about the end of ^^^s^^??-^. Thence is always 
conveniency to pafs from Cmgo^^ days Journey from Comoron or Gombroun , 
to which latter part there is alfo frequent occafion to pafs by Sea from B^Z/f- 
ra, which will lake up fomenjor i6. days Sail. There iv\A, zt Comoron ) 
you will every year meet with Englifh^ Portugal, Dutch, and Mcori/b 
Vcffels, from Sfirat, from oBober till the end April-, for they are ob- 
liged 10 be at Ji^r^i/r, before the end of Af^;, becaufe all the ports of thofe 
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