Kindled , and by this means faving himfelf from the force of the 
Fire, forthe fpace of two hours 5 the Gentleman above-menti- 
oned being then unwilling to hazard the Creature any farther : 
That afterwards it lived nine Months That he had kept it ele- 
ven Months without any other food, but what it took by licking 
die Earth, on which it moved , and on which it had been brought 
out of xht Indies b which at firfl: was covered with a thick moi- 
fture ^ but being dried afterwards , the Urin of the Animal ferved 
to moiften the fame. After the eleven Months , the Owner ha- 
ving a mind to try , how the Animal would do upon Italian Earthy 
k died three dayes after it had changed the Earth. 
An Account 
of fever al Engagements for ohferving of Tydes. 
' Since nothing is more important for difcovering the Gaufe of 
that Grand Th^nomenon of Nature , the Flux and Reflux of the 
Sea , than a irue and full Hiflory of the Tydes , the Firtmofi of 
MnglandbzYC of late fefpecially fince the Publication of Dr. TVa/lis 
his Jheory touching th^t Apparence') taken care^ to dire<ft and re- 
commend in feveral parts of the World , and particularly in. the 
moft proper places of thefe llands, fuch Obfervations , as may. 
contribute to the elucidating of that Subje(5l. ^ 
And as formerly they have feftt th6i' inquiries of this-H^ture 
to the Ifle of St. Helena^ fituated in the open Ocean beyond the 
^quino£tial\ and already received fome account thereupon-, fo 
they have fince difpatcht the like for the Bermudas , an I (lethal 
hath no lefs conveniency of fituation for that purpofe. And they 
intend (as will more amply appear , God permitting ^ in a fhort 
time) to lodge with fuch Mafters of Ships and Pilots 5 as lhallfayi 
into remote parts J very particular dire^ftions of that kind , to be 
printed at the Royal Societies charges , and to be committed to the 
care of the Mafters of Trinity Moufe fordifpofing of them to that 
end; 
And, as forthe Obfervations, to be made in thefe Kingdoms 5 
-\is hoped 5 that the Mafters in the Art of Navigation at Briffol 
(Mr, Standndge and Mr. if) will undertake that bufinefs with af- 
kdlion and care; the former of thefe two having already (as we 
.^it informed from a good, handj made a Colk^tion of the Tydbs, 
