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Part IV. Of SKlfechanicbp-. 
Stalk upon the top of the Leafe 5 almoft in the ihape of a 
Can, with its Lid. If it be open’d, though the Weather ne¬ 
ver fo hot, ’tis half full of Liquor, Then of 
A SAGEWAR-TREE; whofe Flower being cut, renders 
3 Juyce like Wine, far above the Coco-Tree •' With the Fruit 
both of the Male and Female. In the laft place, of 
The SAGOUS-TREE 5 which thofe that inhabit the 
Molucca Illands, eat inftead of Bread: With the Fruit, after 
the life. . c 
Defign. An Armed SOULDIER, in tne pofture of 
fighting. Together with a Land skip, and the Fr of peel of an 
Army. Given by Mr. Will. Browne ft } and all very curioufly 
Drawn with his Pen. 
Wrighting. Ajewifh PHYLACTERY. This here is only 
a fingle Scroll of Parchment , I of an inch broad, and 15 
inches long $ with Four Sentences of the Law , (nig. Exod. 
13. from 7. to 11. and/. 13. to 17. Deut. 6. f 3. to 1 o. and 
1 i.f. 13. to 1 <?.) mod curioufly written upon it in Hebrew. 
Serarius, from the Rabbies, faith, That they were written 
fever ally upon fo many Scrolls. And that the Jews to this 
day, do wear them over their Foreheads in that manner. 
So that they are of feveral forts or modes, whereof tins is 
one. , , 
The original ufe of them, for Memento s : grounded on 
that Command, (a) And thou /halt bind them for a fign upon (•) Deuctf. 
thine Hand, and they Jball be as Frontlets between thine Eyes. the other 
But afterwards, ferved more for Oftentation. And at laft, P^“ d above 
for Spells or Amulets, (b) From whence alfo the ufe o ^ (b) HieroitU} 
Charms amongft Chrijlians was firft learn d 5 and thofe who quoted by 
gave them called Phylacierij. Prohibited by the Council in “ J w " 
Hullo, (c) « Can. < 5 i . 
An Example of the ARABICK Letter in one or two Va¬ 
riations upon Parchment. 
An Example of the CFIINA-Language, in a confiderable 
Variety of CHARACTERS, upon two forts of China 
Papyr. . T 
An Example of the MALABARINE Letters and Lan¬ 
guage. The Letters have fome little refemblance to thofe 
of the Coptic/y. Written upon a fingle Plate of the P almetto- 
Leaf, an inch and i deep, and 10 inches long. It feems, 
from die Hole punched at the end of it, to have been 
C c c hied 
