tifcm,lby others^ a fort of Terebinth, but of a nobler rank, by 
vertue of that Climat : which makes the Author fuggeft, that 
care flioald be taken to have it brought into Europe, and carefully 
cultivated there. 7. l{hubarb t, of which he obferves, that, be- 
eaufe the vertue of itsRoots, if they be expofed to dry haftily, 
fooa evaporats i therefore the skilful! ^ lay them upon a Table 
within doors 3 and turn them feveral cimes a day, to incorporate 
and fix the Juyce the better 3 and then firing them aod expofe 
them to the Wind, in a fliade, altogether tree from the Sun- 
beams. %, Pine -Trees i of which he faith fome are fo big, that 
eight Men can hardly Fathom them. 9. , To big, that they 
can make as many Barrels of them 5 as they have internodcs or 
Joynts. lO. Trees, fweating a Cumy call'd Cie, like the drop* 
pimgs of Turpentine 5 which Gum, as long as tis not dryed, emits 
a very unwholfome and dangerous fteam. To pafle by the Polo- 
me Tree, producing fruit without any blofToms, immediately out 
of its Trunk, as big as one man can well carry ; and that kind of 
Fig-Tree ^x.\\2iX. bears Leaves as big as to wrap up a man in, ^c. 
7. Animalsy Here he difcourfeth of the Musj^Dear, and the 
feveralCompofitions of Musk^: the Sea-Horfe, and Wild Mem 
Of fome Birds, no where feen but in China( as he thinks) and a- 
mong them a Wool-bearing Hen : Of Fi/hes, in Summer flying out 
of the Sea^feeking their food, like Birds^^nd in Autumn returning 
to the Sea : particularly of a Filh of a very exquifite tafle, called 
Hoaneio-yuy or the Croceous Fifh : Further, of Sea-CQrvsy going of- 
ten afliore, and fighting with the Land-Cows ; Of Bats, oi z vaft 
bignefsj eaten by the Chinefe as a delicious meat : Of the Serpent^ 
that breeds the Antidotal ?tonQ ; whereof he relates many experi- 
mentSjtoverifie the relations of its vertue: Which may invite the 
Curator ot the Royal Society, to make the like tryal,there being fuch 
a ftone in their J^epojitory, fent them from the Ea^ Indies. Again, 
oiSilkJVorms, fpinning tmeea year, and yielding a double Crop. 
8, FoJJils^ where occurs the Relation, i. Of an odid Specular 
ftone, reprefenting the figure of the Moon in all her Appearan- 
ces, when expofed to Her* 2, Of an Earth called ^fi,vcry Cof- 
metickj and abflerfivc of all blemifhes of the face. 3. A Mineral 
cerujp, blended of Lead and Antimony. 4. Of Jsbeflm, that can 
be drawn and fpun 5 the way of which he affirms to have defcri- 
bed L. 12. Mundi (ui fiibterranei. y. The Matter that ma J^s Fore eU 
Ian, which he affirms to be nothing clfe but a tranfparent Sand^ 
which 
