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produce a great variety of different' Herbs; and that the Allies of Corn burnt,, 
being {own , have fometi itnes produced other Cor n* 
To add that by the by , Th : s Author is not fo adduced to Arifiotlc % 
IS to be on his fide, when he thinks Truth is not. He hath emancipated him- 
elf. confiderably from the SchoUftlck way of Philofophing. He dares main- 
tain .5 that the Vegetative and Senfitive Souls are not Subfiantid Forms ; and 
that it is with Plants and Animals, as with Artificial things 3 the Form 
whereof reluits from the Union and Difpolition of the parts* According 
to this Hypothecs , he explicates all theOperations of Plants and Animals „ 
without having any recourfe to the Soul, He avers alfo, that there a^e no. 
Species Tntentiondes , and no Habitude^ and that the Animal Spirits , which. 
Philoiophers commonly believe to be neceflary for all theOperations of Life, 
areAfelefs. 
Itrnightalfob.eobfervedout of this Author, what he difcourfes of the 
Generation of Animals by Putrefadlion ; of theCaufeof Intermittent Fm« 
vers ? and of the Animal inftin&, and of many other particulars ; were it 
not better to refer the Curious to the Book it felf. 
III. %JELATlO N SDV VOTAg E de /’ Eveque de Beryte , par 
la Turquie , ta Perfe , les Indes, &c , jufques an Rojaume de Siam t & autre t 
lieux ; par M. de Bourges, Prefire &c. 
This- Author imploying his Pen chiefly , according to his defign , to give ’ 
anAccomptof theSuccefs', the Undertakers 'of this Voyage had , in pro- 
pagating the Chriftian Faith in the remoter parts of the World, and relating; 
on that occaflon, What number of Churches they have Founded m Cochin ». 
China , and the Kingdome of Tenquin (in which latter alone he affirms, that 
there are more then three hundred thoufarid Chriftians ; ) Being, I fay.prin- 
cipally intent upon thatSubje&,hefeems not to have made many Philosophical 
obfervations in thofe places., Mean while he does good fervice to thofe , that 
have occafion to travel into the Eafi- Indies moftly by Land, by defenbing 
the palfage , they took thither ; which was , That they embarqued at Mar- 
seilles y in September , the moft convenient' and favourable feafon for that 
Voyage; whence Ships do ordinarily pafs every Month from Syria , recko- 
ning one Month for the time of Sayling to Alexandretta . Thence to Aleppo , 
counting one month more for the Stay , to be made there to meet the Cara- 
•vane for Bdylon , and fix weeks more for the march from Aleppo to Babylon ; 
where a fortnight will pafs , before an opportunity happen to embarque upen 
the Tyger for Balfora ; which Journey will require a fortnight more. And 
about this time it will be ueer the end of January. Thence is always con- 
veniency to pafs to Congo , 4. days Journey from Comoron or Comhom ; to 
which latter part there is alfo frequent occafion to pafs by fea from Balfora 9 
which vviil t&ke up fome 15 or 16. days Sail. There (vtd. at Comoron ) 
you will every year meet with Englifh , “Portugal, Dutch , and Morifh 
Veffels , for S urate , from OSlober till the end of April ; for they are ob- 
liged to hi n Suratey before the end of May , becaufe all the ports of thofe 
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