wild Elephant s J illuring them into an inclofurc by the 
means Ota Female tame £/4f/>/y4;^r, and the like. Next arc 
related feveral Obfervations of the variation of the Magne- 
tical Needle, which was found towards the end of the Year 
1685, to be about half a degree Weft, at Lonvo near Siam ; 
as likcwife the Oblervation of an Eclipse of tlie Moon on the 
10th. December ft. n.foftmediam »^)<5?m, made at a place near 
LoHvo called ThUe-Youffome^ in the prefence of the King. It 
begun about i %h. tom. th& Total Darknefs at i6h. 45/ 
the Emerfion or end of Total Darknefs at 18^. 7m. ^6f. or ra- 
ther, as is there' laid, at \Qh. lom. 25/ whereby the Longi* 
tudeofthis place is found 98 degrees and half from Paris y 
and about 6^. 45». to the Eaft ofiLondeny ^s may be feen by 
comparing this Oblervation with the Ob&rvations thereof 
made at Dantzick^ Nurenburg and Lisbon j Publifhed in Phi* 
lof. Tranfalt. Num. 178, 182 and 184. And whereas tishere 
laid that fbme * Charts have made' the Longitude oi^iam a- 
bove 20 degrees more than it is, tis to be underftood only of 
the Charts oiSanfon^ which in this particular are the worft 
extant ; But that this Corrcftion is juft, weare fully fatif- 
fied, by the like errors in thofe parts, difcovered and publlh- 
ed in the Philofcfh. Collect, of Feb. i68i, and in Philof. Trmf. 
ofjme 1 68 J. l^he relation of the homeward bound Voiage 
(which was of about 6 Months f is fhort and contains very 
few confiderable Remarks. 
The fixth and laft Book is of the manners and Religion of 
the Siammersj whQVt is^ fliort defeription of the Kingdome 
and Capital City of Si am: Next the habits of the People, 
and their ule of Beule^ Jrek, and Tea is deftribed, as likewife 
the Root Gi /if eng lb much eftecmed in the Eaft, with its 
Vertues and Ules. Ai to the Rehgion of this people, which 
is here deicribed at large, I fhall fay little to it, as not fall- 
ing under our Argument, only one principal point therein 
is the Metempfychdfis of Pjthagoras and the Brammes, and 
they hold the Eternity of the World, but on the contrary 
they fuppofe God Mortal, Corporeal and produced in time : 
heir pi eient God they call Sommomkhodom. 
