C f^v) 
whereby It may ftand ranged hereafter in its right Place 
in the Hiftory of Animals : fmce Nature her felf Cctms 
by the Fafi Magnitude and Stately Horns^ flie has gi- 
ven this Creature, to have fingkd it out as it were, and 
fhewed it fuch regard, with a defign to diftinguilh ic 
remarkably from the common Herd of ail other fmaller 
Quadrupeds. Naturahfls have rais'd much Difpute, 
what Beaft it truly is, that has had the NaiTie given it 
by fome of them, of Animal Magnum ; Dodonauj, Me- 
vahenusy and others, would have it the Elche ; Scaliger 
would have it the Bifons of Pliny ^ whether 'twas one or 
t'other, or neither, I (han't determine ; nor do I the 
ieaft fufpeft that this our Animal was meant by it ; 
however, for its goodly Size and lofty Stature, and to 
retain fomething of an Old Appellation, I think it may 
very well lay claim to it, and not improperly be call'd, 
Cervus Flatyceros Altijfimm ; five Animal Magnum Cor- 
nihus Palmatis^ incolii tJovce AngU & P^irgini£, uli 
fre(iuens, Moofe di^lum. 
Ill Part of a Inciter from Mr. Antony van 
Leuwenhoeck, dated \pr,^* 1697. gi'ving 
an Account of fe*z/erat Magnetical Expert' 
ments] and of one tpho pretended to cure or 
caufe Difeafes at a Dijiance^ by applying a 
Sympathetic^ Powder to the Z^rine. 
I Hive for many Years made divers Obfervations 
about the Loadftone, but made no Deductions from 
them but for fome Months laft paft , having Two 
Load- 
