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' Fifth, Is concerning a new Edid approving the Chrifliati 
'Religion through all Ch'tna,t\\Q Miffionaries founded their de- 
fire on the great Services they had done the Empire in nsgo- 
ciating a Peace with Mufco'uy^ helping them in Civil and Fo- 
reign Wars by founding Cannon, and in teaching them the 
Calendar and other parts of Mathematicks, on which they had 
an Order, that their Churches ihould not be more di Curbed 
than the Lam>asof the Tartars^ or Bonzes of the Cbinefe, 
Sixth, Is a general Idea of the Obfervations made in China 
and the Indies fov which end thePrieds divided themfelves into 
feveral Bodies to ob{erve feveral things/ the C^/wc/e and Wi- 
ans ignorant of Paralaxes, Longitudes were wrong plac'd, 
fo as Eclipfes did not anfwer at Kamtchou^ one was in the lat- 
ter tndoi April 1688. II digit and i inftead of total there 
was Light tho' \ ot the Sun was oWcured. Second Eclipfe 
was obferv'd by F. Tachard, and was Central, or had a Ring 
about it about a digit, which came from the greatnefs of 
the Sunsdifq; above that of the Moon. As to the Eclipfes 
of the Moon wherein the Moderns finds much difficulty by 
paralaxes, &c, they fiirpiz'd the King of Siam with their 
nice Obfervations of that of the' nth of Decemh, i68f, they 
oblerv'd Two Comets, and their Motions as well as the Pla- 
nets by GlafTes; they obferv'd Mercury in the Sun at Canton\thQ 
loth of NovemL 1690, being a black fpot which went thro* 
the Sun in 3 hours and | , from whence he infers that 
Planet opaque and lefsdiftant from the Earth than the Sun^ 
they obferv'd the* immerfions and emerfions of ^Jupiters's 
SateUits^-from whence afcertain by objervations, the diftancc 
of Niwpo and Cbamhay* They Obferv'd Latitudes of places 
for perfe<Sing Geography; the courfe of Rivers for the 
fame , he fpeaks of Gerbtllons Memoirs and Voyages into 
Tartary, and his Map of it \ he gives an account of Ele- 
phants^ Tygres Royaux D'eau, or a fort of one living on 
Fifli, like a Cat; the Rhinoceros with his prickly Tongue, 
eating Branches of Prickly Trees the .Chameleon. Strange 
Monkeys coming near to Mankind. Several kinds of Snakes 
eat in Siam like Eels. An Herbal defign'd with 400 Figures 
£0 the life in Colours: And fo with a Relation of the Pearl 
Fifliery concludes, 
.London \ VnntQA for Sam, Smithy and Benj. Wallford^-'VfmtQti 
to the Royal Society, at the Princes Arms in St. Paufs 
Church'Yard. 1697. 
