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That undertakes to defcribe the Curio f ties avA Pmdu^ions of Na^ 
ture and Art, in China. Here^ the Author having premifed fome- 
thing of the advantagioiis Scximiion oi China ^ and its Political 
Government ; Calculated ah^o both the Number of its Inhabi- 
tants, (which according to him, amount to lOoMiUions of Men, 
befides Women , Children, Officers, and Eunuchs 5) and the 
^/z;2z^^/ Revenue of theEmperour f which he makes to be 150 
Millions of Gold-Crowns ^ J he relateth many confiderable pro-- 
dudions and works of Nature in that Country 5 As 
I . ItdQuntains very odd for fhape, burningg and railing of Tem- 
pefts. 
IJlesytoihQ number of 99. all turned into one, under the 
fame extent of fpace they had, when they were divided by water. 
l^Lakes^ fome changing Copper into Iron, and caufingftorms^ 
when any thing is caft into them i and others, fprung up by 
Earth-quakes. 
4. levers, whereof one is faid to be of a ^/^n? colour in Au- 
tumn, and for the reft of the year Limpid: Another, to be cold 
at the top, and very hot beneath. 
5". Fiery Wells, ferving to boyl meat over : Perhaps of the fame 
Nature with that here in England, we defcribed above. 
6, Plants^as i .fome Rofes,changing their Colour twice a day 
Whence the Author takes occafion to fpeakof that Plant, which 
grows at J{pms^ in the Garden of one Signior Corvino, call'd F^iola- 
JSIoBurna, changing its colour fenfibly, according to the degrees 
of the rifing and declining of the Sun • deftitute of all fmell in 
the day-time, but having a very fragrant one in the night, 2. 
A Farinaceous or Mealy Tree, ferving to make Bread of it. 5. 
Leaves o( certain Trees^ ftanding on the fide of a Lake, which 
falling into the water, become like black Birds : which he afcrib- 
eth to the Seminal parts of fome Eggs ^ broken on thofe Trees, 
fill'd with Birds nefts. 4. The, and irs wholefomenefs ^ as to the 
fuppreffing of V apours, and preventing the Stone. ^ . A kind of 
Wtcker-Treey which^ as if it were a Rope twifted by Nature, a- 
boot an inch thick, creeps along upon the Earth, fcmetimes the 
length of 120 paces, much cmbarafiing the way^but ferving for 
Cables to Ships, Scats, Hurdles^BedsjMatts ; enduring no Ver- 
min 5 and being cool and refrefliing in hot Seafbns. 6. The 
iaUmba»W6^ds that it is efteem'd by fome to be a kind of Len^ 
