278 
(a) Tavern, 
Ind. Voyage, 
Chap. 2 1. 
(b) )■ de 
Tact. 
(c) Of the 
vjrig. of 
Forms, 13 < 5 . 
(1i) Muf. 
Rom. p. 45 
Co!. 2. 
(e) Dr. 
Brown’s 
Trav. 
(f) Phil. 
Tranf. N. 
loo. 
(g) Phil. 
Tranf. A'. 
12$>. p.730, 
1. pen. 
(b) De Lap, 
& G. lib. 2 
S.154.P.312 
Of Corah. Part III. 
encompafled with little fhort round hollow fprigs, or, as 
we may call them, Coral-Leaves , curioufly ftriated round 
about. « 
The Upright FOLIATED CORAL. In all rcfpecTs like 
the former, laving that it is lefs fpread. 
Coral is fifh’d for from the beginning of April to the 
end oi July. Not in the Ocean, but the Mediteranian-Sea 
only. In which there are eight or nine Fifheries, among 
the Rocks, no where above forty miles from Land. Three 
upon the Coaft of Sardinia ; on that of France, two 3 of 
Sicily, Catalonia, Corfu a, and Majorque, one. (a) Of white 
Coral, there is great abundance in Bra file. (b ) 
Of the Nature and Generation of Coral, it is affirmed 
by the Honourable Mr .Boyle, (c) That whilft it grows, 
it is often found foft and fucculent, and propogates it 
Species. And by Georg, de Sepibws, (d) That of thofc who 
. had been us’d for many years, to dive for Coral in the Red- 
Sea, lurcher learned thus much; That it would fometimes 
let fall a Spermatick Juyce,which lighting upon any (Jieady) 
Body, would thereupon produce another Coral. And 
further, by Wonnius and Tavernere , from the Relations of 
others, That tins Juyce is white or milky. Which may 
feem the more credible, when we confider, that the like 
milky fubftance is found in divers Mines. (e) Sometimes 
inclofed as is obferved by Air. George Planton, in great Hol¬ 
lows of the Metallick Rock (/) And that Mr. Beamont 
hath found 111 the Hollows of fome Stones called Entrocbi, 
and Rock-Plants, or a kin to them, an evident concretion 
of fuch milky Juyce. (g) 
Of Corals, are chiefly prepar’d, The Powder ground 
upon a Marble ; the Magifterial Salt ; and the Tinclure. 
To goodpurpofe, in fome Leavers, and fome other Cafes. 
But the Name of Tuidure, according to the common no¬ 
tion of it, is a meer deceipt: it being, in truth, no more 
but a Liquamen , or folution of the Magifterial Salt. For 
thofc Acid~ Liquors which are ufed as Menftruums for the 
making of it; by digellion or repeated heats, do always 
i urn red •' which not being heeded, the find colour hath 
been believed to proceed from the Corah. Of the Effect 
of this 1 inchcre, or rather Salt of Coral, upon a Malignant 
Feaver, fee a Memorable Relation of Boetius in his own 
Cafe, (h) BASTARD 
