pipe, and fo (top the Bleeding : But on Tryals I have 
feen of it, though 1 may believe it innocent, yet I am 
fure 'tis not infallible, v - v • 
Fig, 657, 8, 9, 10, 1 1, 11, 13. ShevC^llght feveral In- 
ftrumsnts made fer paring the Nails, at which, in Chi- 
na^ the People are very curious and dextrous. Thefe In- 
ftruments are each of them lhaped like a Ghizzel. 
Fig, 14. reprefents a kind oi Inftrument, called, in 
China^ a Champing Inftrument, Its u(e is to be rub'd 
or roul'd all over the Mufcular Fleih. It is like an Hor- 
fes Curricomb, and is faid to be ufed after the fame man- 
ner, and for the fame Purpofes that they are made u(e of 
forHorfes. 
VIII. An Account of a Book. 
Mufeo de Fiante rare della Sicilm^ Malta^ Cor- 
jica^ Italia^ Fiemonte e Germania^ <^c. di 
Don Faolo Boccone^ Sec. with additional Re- 
mark^s by Mr. John Ray, F. R. S. 
TH E learned and ingenious Author of this Work, 
Signlov Paolo Bocconey a,Genxkman of iS/d/y, Bo- 
tanift to the Great Duke of r^/c^/sfy, and now a Monk 
of the CiJiertianOxdtT^ of the Province of Sicily, having 
changed his Prsnomen into Sylvius ^ hath rendied him- 
.feif well known to the learned World, by his Writings 
publiflied many Years fince, viz. His Icones & Defcrip- 
thnes rariorum Plant arum Sicili£j Melita^ GaBice & Ita- 
li^e, Printed at Oxford in the Year 1674. And his Let- 
ters 
