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PHILOSOPHICAL 
TRANSACTIONS. 
Eebr. 10. for the MoBthsof Jan^Ary ^wd 'StbmArj^ 1671« 
The Contents. 
Ihemanmr 4f Hdtchhg Chicken 4^ Cairo; oifirvedfyMr* 
John Graves, dnixommumcMtei by Sr.George Enr^ ARt- 
Ution concermngBarmcles i Sr. Robert Moray . ADi" 
fcriftionof the ^andHitt^ ; commumcAtei alfi by Sr. Kohtxt 
Moray. Some Ob[er*uMiom of a Cameleon; made by Dr. 
Jonathan Goddard, An Account of the Iron-W^rJ^s in the 
Foreft of Dean ; commmicated by Henry Powle, Efquire^ 
A KeUtionof the making of Cerufe ; by Sr. PhiliiDer^o Ver- 
natti, jin jiccount of Tm Books : I. The true htelleitual 
Syfiem of the Univerfe. IheFirJl Fdrt by R. Cud worthy 
D. D. II. The Six rAy^gf-/^?/ John Bapcifta Tavernierj^ 
publiJbedinUttglifb. 
The manner of Hatching Chicken at Cairo , obferved by Mr, 
John Graves, fometime Frofeffor of ^flronomy at Oxford \^nd 
communicated by Sr. George Eut jate Frefdent of the College 
of Fhypiam^ London. 
THcy begin in the inidft of January to heat the Ovens^ 
fpending every Morning an hundred Kintars (or an 
hundred pound weight) of Camels^ or of EuffuWsDim^;, and 
the like proportion at Night, till the niidf! of February. 
About which time the Ovens are fo hoc, thai one cannot well 
endure to lay his hand upon the Walls, 
After this^ they put the Eggs inro the Ovens ro hatch the 
Chicken; which they continue ll^cceffively irA the end of 
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