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do for medicine. All the Seas and River?i and all Lands do offer 
plenty and variety for our Tables ; and may, in time,for our Gar- 
ments: ThG Seas to yield as good and ftrongRayments as Buffe 
or Mayle $ -as the dull Inhabitants of large Territories in the Ncrth 
had the wit, long fince, and have to this day, to wear llioes and 
boots of Fijhes skm^ fo cleaverly fow'd, that their Seams are not 
eafily to be found^ faith M. Martinier in his New Voyage into the 
Northern Countries : And that the beft fort of men m NovA Zem- 
^//i do wear Veftments of the feathered Skins of ienguins^ the fea- 
thers outwards ; and make Boats and Ganoes of Fifli-skins and Fifli- 
bones. And weexpeft better tidings from iheNew Artsof Di- 
ving^ concerning the Treafures of the Seas, fuch perhaps as have 
layn ah ortgine, and have perpetually increafed by fliipwracks and 
tempefts. Excellent Volums do offer many Artifices for all occafi- 
ons and for all humors 5 and great Ingeny's will have the wit, ra^* 
ther 10 chufe to be Mafters and Inventors of a New and Ingenuous 
Artifice, than to ferve cur Apprenticefhip for that which is Vul- 
gar and proletary ; No Statute or Law^ prohibits a man to praftife 
an Invcnti m of his own in any Corporation, if it be for common 
Utility ,and without fraud ; but one may not fet up a known Trade, 
till he hath ferved an Apprenticeftip. But I mufi; not here, nor 
am I able, to enumerate all the Branches of Philofophy which are 
advanc* d for this prefent age,and prepar d for the future. Enough 
isdom tc quicken honeft Wit, andlnduftry, which is generally 
moft of all wanting in moft of them that complain of Want. 
A more f at tkul&r Account of the Ufi'^c\\\)^t of the Moon^ as it 
VP as objerved by the Parifian ^Jlronomers , and fromi[ed by us 
in our former Numb. nr. Englifli't out of the French Journal 
^^iScavants. 
TAtiuary 11.167?. aboutfivea clock \2minAVi the Evening, in 
the Royal Obfervatory, MXa/^m,Tsi,Ficard, dtudM^Roemer, 
began to perceive, that the Oriental part of the Moon , by little 
and little loft its lights fo that at 5 ^. 25'/ they faw a manifeil: 
fenHmbra\ then at 5 /^. 3 /. 50". the limb over againfl the Spot 
called Heveliusgrcwro dark, that they all agreed, that this was the 
true beginning of the Eclipfe. They faw yet the little Spot Rk^ 
cioli, whichdifappearednot till i^'.after; and fo the Shadow ad- 
vanced from fpoc to fpot unto the other oppofite limb of the 
Moon; according to the order below particularized. 
Before ( 
