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JHj&whi gKth$High-mier mark is above the Low -water ? Which 
way itflowcth- which way itebbeth? what time of the Moon 
the Spring-tides fall out ? 
^.Whether the Ice that floats in the Sea be of Salt-water orFrefli? 
io. What Rivers there are in the Summery and what frefli wa- 
ter can be had ? 
ii„ What Fowl are found to live there, and what Beafls? 
How they are thought to fubiiffc in Winter ? How they breed and 
feed their young ? 
12. What Vegetables % row there., and whether they yield any 
Flowers or Fruits ; &c.? 
.1.3. Whether there have been any 7 bunder ox Lightning ob- 
ferved in thofe parts ? 
14. How deep the Gold penetrates into the Earth ? whether 
there be any W ells, Pitts or Mines fo deep., that the Cold does not 
touch the bottom thereof? 
15. How the Land trends? and whither the Parts under or 
near the Pole be by thofe^that have gone furtheftthat way,thought 
to be sea or LandtHow near any hath been known to approach the 
Pole-, & whether the Cold increafeth with the increafe of Latitude ? 
„ 16. To make, if poiflble, fome Experiments and Obfervations about the 
Magneto? Needle • and particularly,. How much the Declination is there? 
and whether they doe exadly obferve the Degrees of Declination in their 
courfe ? Likewife to make Obfervations about the Height of the Sun and » 
other Celeftial Bodies, and their Diameter r Re fractions ? &c. . 
17. What is their opinion concerning the North-Eafi paflage? 
18. What Fifh do moft frequent thofe Seas, befides whales ? Anything 
obfervable in their Fifhing • as the Ufual or Unufual bignefs,ftrength,and the 
feveral forts of whales • and particularly to obferve whether that kind of 
whales they call Trompa, have in their Heads the Spcrma £Vfi, and in their 
Entralsthe Ambergreefe, looking like CoVes-dang^ as was alledged out of 
Purchas in Numb. 28. pag. 538? 
19. To give in an exadt Relation of the whale throwing the Harp- 
irons,following the Fifli, &c. 
20c To defenbe the whole manner of making the Ojl of whales. 
An Account of the 
SYNOPSIS NOVC PHILOSOPHIC & M E- 
DI C IN M Francifci Fravagini Medici Veneti. 
S Ome months fince there were two Letter sitwe. hither from Venice, from > 
Signior Francifco Travagino, giving notice of a Treatife of his, ready 
for thePrefs, under the Title of NOVA P HI LOS 0 PHI A o- 
ME Dp 
