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Howbigh the High-mter markiszbovethe Low-water Wliicfi 
way it floweth ^ which way itebbeth^ what time of the Moon 
the Sf ring-tides fall out f 
p.Whetherthe Ice that floats in the Seabe of Salt- water orFreflif 
10. What Rivers there are in the Summer^ and what frefh wa- 
ter canbehwadcf 
11. What Fowl are found to live there, and what Beafisif 
How they are thought to fubfift in Winter ?f How they breed and 
feed their young if 
12. What VegetMcsgios^ there^ and whether they yield any 
Flowers or Fruits. &c.^f 
15. Whether there have been any ihunderox Tuightning ob- 
ferved in thofe parts < 
14. How deep the Cold penetrates into the Earths whether 
there be any V¥ells,Pitts or Mines fo deepj that the Cold does not 
touch the bottom thereof if 
15. HowtheLand trends and whither the Parts under or 
near the ?ole be by thofe^that have gone furtheft that way,thought 
to be sea or X Wc'How near any hath been known to approach the 
Foki, & whether the Cold increafeth with the increafe oiLatitr^Je t' 
16. To make, if poilible, forne Experiments and Obfervations about the 
Magneton Needle-^ and pircicul rly, How much the Declination is there 
and whether they doe exadly obferve the Degrees of Declination^ in their 
courfe ? Likewife to make Obfervations about the Height of the Sm and 
other Celeftial Bodies, and their Diameter^ RefraBions > &c, 
17. What is their opinion concerning il^e North- Eafi paffage? 
18. What Fifti do moll frequent thofe Seas, befides whales^ Anything 
obfervable in their ^ ifhing ^ as the llfual or Unufual bignefs,ftrength,and the 
feveral forts of whales-^ and particularly to obferve whether that kind of 
whales they call Trompa, have in their Heads theS/?rm^ C^tl, and in their 
"Emrals the Ambergrecfe, looking like Co^s-dpmg^M was alledged out of 
F fire has in Numb. 28 . pag. 538? 
1 9. To give in n exad Rel 3tien of the ?vhale fifilng^thvomng the Harp^ 
irons,following the rifti^ i^c, 
20. To defcribe the whole manner of m:i king the Ojlo^ pvhaks. 
An Account of the 
SYNOPSIS NOV ^ PHILOSOPHIiE d M E- 
DIG IN Francifci Travagini Medici Veneti. 
SOme months fince th rre were two Letters km hither from TrnV^, from 
Signior FrancifcoTravagino^ giving notice of a Treatife of his, ready 
for thePrelsj under the Tide ^ NOV A FBI LO S OF HI A cfr 
MEDR 
