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We whofe Names are underwritten do hgreby teftifie 
the Truth of the Matters of Fad in the within written 
Letter related, 
Beniamin Mafler, a Jurat of the Town, aged 74^ 
Robert Hammond , Senior, a Jurat of the Town, aged 77, 
William Godden, a Fiiherman, aged 74. 
Thomas Marfh, a Fiiherman, aged 71. 
William Hall , a Fiiherman, aged 7;. 
James Godden , a Filhermaa, upward of 6 o. 
III. Mtfcellaneous Observations made about Rome, 
Naples and Jome other Countries , in the Tear 
168} and 1684; and communicated to the Tub* 
lifher by Tancred Robinfon M. D. R, S. S. 
S I R, 
Y OU having been pleas’d to think fome of my Ob- v 
fervations might be agreeable to the Publick, I 
fhall here freely* give you them ( fueh as they are) o»- 
mitting thofe that were formerly extraded out of the 
MSS. Diaries of my Travels, fome of which are Printed 
in feveral P hi loj cubical Tranfaffions, and others in fome 
of Mr. Rays Englilh Trads. 
In my Journey from Rome to Naples I obferv’d on the 
Rubbilh of the Tre Taberne an unufual Vegetable for 
that place, remote from Town or Houfe, which was the 
Ficus Indica Spinofa commonly call’d the Opuntia or luna y 
and by our Writers of America the PricklyPear , whole 
Juice gives the Urine a red Colour ; when I came to 
Naples , I found it there near the Rocks, and in fome wild 
folitary Places like a Native. If the Spaniards planted it, 
they chofe defert Situations* On this Plant the Cochineel 
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