to have found itamuch other thing, than they imaginedjthough 
related to them o'/Vi^ voct by ihofe who had formerly beea 
there. 
I (hill add , that the whole country from the very Walls of 
Catania to 20, milesonthis fide is full of thofe old Sciarri, which 
former Eruptions hiv^caft fjrth, though the people remen- 
ber none fo bigg as this laft , or that burft out fo low. This 
Country is notwithftandiag well cultivated and in^iabite^. foL* 
length of time hath either mollified much of thofe old Sciarri^ or 
new mould or afties have ove grown them 5 though there ftiU 
remains much Country , which, it may be , wi 1 never be mad^ 
ferviceablc. 
What is the perpeniicular hight of this Mountain ^ I cannot 
learn. It caanot perhaps be rightly taken, being fo fubjedl to 
alter itsheight and fli ipe. But it is a very goodly Mountain to 
look upon, as one pafTesby 5ea to the Eaft-ward,ftanding alone 
byit felf, rifing from the very (hore5 and atfli^rceft paffageis 
reckoned 20, miles up to the top^ though from Catama 'xt hath 
3®^ miles^as before* . 
An account of two Books 
I. DISC OURS M.STE NO N fur H A N AT O- 
MIE S C ERFE AU, >^ Paris iS'^^ in iz. 
IN the beginning' of this Difcouife the Au» hor reprefents^thit 
thofe, who fetarch after folid kno\^ ledge, will find nothing 
fatisf idlory in all that hath been hitherto written concerning the 
Bram: that all, which Anatomifts agree in , is only, that it 
confifts of two Subftarices , a White and a G.rayi(h,and that the 
firmer is continued with the Nerves, that are diftributed 
through the whole B^dy ^ and the ferves in f^^me places 
for a kind of Cortex to white, and in others, fevers the 
Vi^hice filaments from one another. But that they are yet igno- 
rant, what thofe fub (lances are 5 in what mar^aer the Nerves 
arejoysedia the^^/>^5 and how farr their extreamlties sd- 
vaaceinit ^ from which difpofition yet depends all the diver- 
ficy and varfbty of our fenfaticns and motions. And as for 
the Keniricles or Cavities of i he Brain , he affirynes them to be 
5K) leisjiaknowa;>,ihari ii:s Subflances fome Anatoniifts iodg- 
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