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preferv'd, as to fee vdv^5 in tbeui \ oi fo great a number of Uni? 
corns-horns (bofris of a Sea-animal,) as that a magnificent Thrgne' 
was built out of cheoJi in tyehmark ; of fouie of thofe horns,of i 
and of others, of 1 5 foot long ; of a Veffel at Heidelberg, holding 
about 200 Tuns,and,inftead of hoops,bcingbuilc with large Knee- 
timber like the ribs of a Ihip; and having, upon one fideof it a 
handfom Stair- cafe to afcend to the top of the veffel, upon which 
top there is a Gallery, fet round withbaliftres, 43 fteps high from 
the ground 5 of a large rough Jafpu-dQUC ^ lying in one of the 
Courts of the Emperors Palace at henna , about 9 fobt diameter, 
dugout ofa Quarry of «y-^/^^^/s^r^ ; of a fair Maaufcript of Ftolo- 
my, with the Maps drawn in colburs ; the oldeft MS. and true Ex- 
emplar oft /x/^, without diftinflion of Words or Senrences^ aa 
old fair Greek MS. of Diofeoridesy'^ntten 1 100 years fince thefe 
three rare Books,and many more are in the Imperial Library ; Of 
a Knife fwallow'd by a Peafant nearjPr^^«^,which was 9 months in 
his ftomacb^and then fafely cut out : Of fome Silver- Mines near 
Gttttemherg \n Bohemia^ which are affirm'd to have been wrought 
7ooyears^theOarof them containing both Silver and Copper,and 
a^/w Earthy which they meet with in digging, affording the befl: 
hopes of Oar : Of the Eleftor of Saxon/ s Repofitory , furnifhed 
with very many and confiderable rarities both of Nature and Art; 
among which, there are two large pieces of pure Virgin gold^ as it 
came out of the Mine, and a G»^? (hooting off 40 times without 
charging again: Of a Mine, caWd Himmelfurjl ^ near F^^^^r^ in 
Mifnia, wherein hath been found Oar fo rich, as in an 100 pounds 
weight to contain an 130 marks of Silver^ thdii is, 65 pounds in 
the 1 00 : The richeft Veins obferved to be thinneft;Of a Sulphur- 
oar^ Tome of which contains Silver^ fome Copper , and fome both, in 
affnall proporrion: Of the Gem4;;-manner of making Br^f/irwitb 
Lapis calaminaru ; and of a very confiderable Mine of this Lapis 
near Ac^uisgran, which is faid to have been wrought 300 years, to- 
gether with a full defcription thereof, &c. 
Ifl.Cafpari Bartholinij Thomafilii^ Viaphragmatis JiruHura nova.:, 
Uf?a cum Methodo praparandi Vificra, c^c. Parifiiis i6-j6 Jn 80, 
THe ingenious Aurhor, having, in his Preface, declared his 
refolutiononly to confulc Nature her fe!f,and acquiefce in 
nothing but Experiment , which he thinks too many of the great 
profefTors of Anatomy have neg'efted to do ; begins in the Traft it 
feifj with (hewing, that the lapfes of Authors both ancient aad 
.modern- 
