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Mmy ufiful Inventions m dlready brought to perfeltion^ and pub' 
lijhed ; and many more are dextroujly commenced. 
In the Preface to my la^ foregoing Volume, I foUicited for Na^ 
tural Hijlories of Countries : And norp I fee very much done in 
that kind ; and I hear of much more in the hands of many judici- 
eta Philofofhers, learned Gentlemen , induftrioas Students^ and 
noble Travellers. And ingenious Travellers are novo furntfhed 
with extraordinary accommodations^that vrere not knovpn to former 
Ages; y«f^r^ Thermometers, Barofcopes, Hygrofcopes, Mi- 
crorcopes,Te!ercopes , Micrometers, exaCi Scales and Weights, 
promptly to weigh Liquors, and^ with other circumfiances, to ex- 
amine the intrinfic value of all Coins and Medals or Metals \ 
Pendulum Watches, Inftruments and Indexes for Magnetical 
Variations, and Inclinatory Needles , and other helps to come t0 
afcertain Longitudes ; and other Mechanical Contrivances for ma- 
mfold U fes, Jnd every branch of Mathematicks , pure and mixt^ 
Arithmetic/:^ Geometry^ Aftronomy, Archite^ure, all Ingenuota 
Arts are daily rendred more eafie and more pregnant. 
Tbefe the moji Intelligent and Indujlriomybeing fome of them 
in full Bodies affociated^ wellfetled and devoted for [olid Truth in 
all our beft Academies \ and others led by their own Genitis and 
Jffairs^ to undertake inquifttive journeys by Sea and Land 5 we 
(Cannot [ufpeS; a Relapfe, nor fail of a perpetual Progrefs in found 
md ufiful knowledge^ to the fatisfaStien of all the Ingenuous. 
Some jfgrejlic Obfervations and Advertifiments^from Dr. John 
Beal e communicated to the Publijber, 
IN Devonfhire they mingle black Mulberies fully ripe, with 
a full bodied Cider in the time of grinding or preffing the 
Agple,withdifcretion for tinflure and relifli : And there they 
efteem it a very wholfom and ftout wine. Of this Mulbery- 
cider, feme notice was given from Devon(hire long fince, as may 
be feen in the Phil.tranfaCt^ VoL2.Numb.2'j,p.^o'j,Se}>t.\66'j. 
^ris ftrange, that in nine or ten years fince this was publifc- 
ed, the praftife hath not been fpread into other Countries , 
where they abound with ftrong and winy Cider ; many being 
vvilling that their Cider fliould in tinfture refcmble Claret, 
Tcnti or Alicant wine. 
But it may feem, that we do yet retain fome what of our Fa- 
thers averfnefs from plantingMulberies, which they tewed near 
thcbegining of King y^wi his Reign , to our great lofs and 
lhame. 
