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The great Trouts pafs out of the Lake for four months of the Sum- 
mer^and arc taken in autumn when they are returning thither. The 
Filliing is farmed out n Geneva ^ and there are Confervatorics where 
many of thofe big Trouts are kept, among which there are fome that 
weigh fifty pounds. Sometimes they catch Pikes there of eighsy pounds 
weight ^ and a pound weight at Geneva you know to be eighteen 
ounces. 
In the months fptly and AMguft they fifli there for the Fry of 
Bearches, at a time when they are no bigger than the fmaliefl: taggs, 
Xhefe are a very delicious difti, there called Mille Cantons, 
1 fliali add no more than put you in mind of that Duke Savoy 
who renounced his Crown and the PontiHcat it felf to pafs deliciou- 
Hy the red of his dayes at Ripaliles, wh^r^ he made fo good cheer to ail 
that viiited him, that, to exprefs a very m^erry entertainment^ they fay 
flill, fdre Rifdlies, 
An Accompt of fome Bcoks, 
J:,IjVX Mdthematka^CQlUfomkmjohd^mh VVailifii i'.T'/?, D ^ Th'o- 
' mae Hobbelli Mdmeshurienfis ^excpsff^i: MhIHs & fulgentijfnni^ mEia ra^ 
diis,AM-h:K.R. Adjm5ia'Cenf^ra Dd'Eirim WsLM Libra, unat 
Rofeto Hobbeili,. Lopidinijpra Guif, Crook vico VGcato without. 
Tempie»bar, 1672. ?V4". 
THs Author of this Book dedicated to the Royal Society ^ having 
toldthc Reader in the fr^/^r^,thac he hath deduced the rife and 
occafion'of the Dlfputes betwixt Dr. ^^//?;^ and Mr. Hobhes^ and com- 
mended the many ;lnd difficult Propositions and Demon^lrations, faid 
to be advanced by the latter of them, and compared therewith thofe of 
Dr.^alii^ having alio fub joined in the fame the things that by 
Hobhes are judged manifefl : Proceeds in the Body of the book to the 
Gontroverfies therafelvcs ^ endeavouring to vindicate Mr. Hdbes^s 
Affertions from the Objcdions of Dx.JVMs^ particularly thofe, that 
were publillied in N °. 73, and 75. of thefe Trmfi^tutons ^mhioh Month- 
ly Papers j(to touch that by the by,) this Author, by a great miftake, , 
cal Is p. 36. the TranfMens of the R.Society whereas they are notori- 
ouily compofedby a Single Perfon, who hath not only declared fo 
much in feverai places of thefe TraEis, and moft folemnly in N°. la. 
p. 213 , 214 but alfo adds his very name to them in the Dedications 
of ev«ry years volume. 
The Gontroverfies, by the Author enumeratedj are 13. 
I . De Rationum calculo per magnitudines Infinkas 
2 . De fygnificam'vocls ^^tioms apud M.Mhematlcos. 
3 . . D^ Ratione reEhangtili ad P arahoUm^ ad P^r^holoeides foil dam ^ .^d PA-- 
r^bttiam CMcdem^ &" ad diM Figure ipfi infcriptds. 
^.VtrPtm^Mvatxiqnadrati rmix eademfit cnm ¥lgmx-£j.fiadrat(e latere, 
t 5 . De PmU'o^de Lon'gituding fine LMltudine ^ & an Angulus femi-clrcull 
■ 6. D.^ 
