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fording none but European Plants 5 fome remarkables about the 
Generation and Corruption of Trees there 5 ftrange Cajcatas 
of water j a rare fountain^flowingjand (topping regularly thrice 
a dayj at a certain time of the year, and at other times flowing 
irregularly 5 and a great Lake^having Ice inSummerj&c.The 
Scicuation of the kingdoms oiTibet^ and the Commodities they 
ofFord. A coiifiderable account of Voyages made by Caravans 
from i(,^r/&^m2V^ through the mountains of the great Tibet into 
Tartary and Cataja 3 and another^of the kingdom of Kacheguer^ 
with diretilions how to travel thither from Kachemire.z% alfo,how 
to pafs from K^cheguer to Cataja, To all which is added an An- 
fwer to fome Qijeftions touching the Mounjons and /{ainsivt 
India 5 the wonderful regularity of the Current of the Sea, and 
of the Winds there 5 the fertility of Bengale ; and the Caufes of 
the Inundation of the N//f and fome other Rivers^ The 
whole is concluded with a Letter concerning the Doctrine of ; 
AtQfm^^di the nature of the Mind of Man* 
Hifima & Meteorolagia INCENDIl yETN^l, Ami 1669. 
Joh4Alph.Borelli. J{egio Julio iSjo. in 
T Hough we have feen feveral Relations communicated to 
us of thii late fire Fire of Mount ^tna^ont of which hath 
heeninferted in iV2^w^*5i.of tholeTradsj yetwillit beeafify 
allow'd by thofe, that (hall have read and confidered this Dif- 
courfcjCompofed and publilhed by the famous Philofopher and 
Mathematician J. Jlph.Berel/iythzt all others, that have hitherto 
written any thing about it, rauft needs give the preeniinceto 
him in re(pe(9: of method^fulnefsj and philofophical reflexions 5 
to the performance of which he averreth tohave been induced 
by his Eminence the Cardinal de Medicis and the EogliOi 
Society^ 
The Author then having given a fbort Topography of thrs^ 
Mountain,delivers firft a fuccin<9: Relation both of the old and- 
later Eruptions, as alfoof this Iafl:Fireof^^;2^, and withall aft 
figneth the perpendicular Height of the fame, fiiewing it not to 
exceed three Italian itiiles^and here taking notice of Kepler s 
figning two fuch miles for the height of the Atraofphere^ and 
thence concluding the top of J^t?2a to be confiderably raifed 
above that region of the common Air i confirmiDg the fame 
