A Catalogue of Many Natural Rarities (1665)
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Robert Hubert A Catalogue of Many Natural Rarities, with Great Industry, Cost, and thirty Years Travel in Foraign Countries. Collected by Robert Hubert, aliàs Forges, Gent. and sworn Servant to His Majesty. And daily to be seen, at the place for-merly called the Musick House, near the West end of St. Pauls Church London Printed by Tho. Ratcliffe, for the Author 1665
A
CATALOGUE
OF MANY
Natural RARITIES,
WITH
Great Industry, Cost, and thirty Years
Travel in Foraign Countries. COLLECTED BY
ROBERT HUBERT aliàs FORGES,
Gent. and sworn Servant to His Majesty.
And daily to be seen, at the place for-
merly called the Musick House, near
the West end of St. Pauls Church. LONDON,
Printed by Tho. Ratcliff, for the Author,
Anno Domini 1665. 1 A CATALOGUE OF MANY Natural RARITIES. I. Rarities HVMANE. Hub166500010Giants Thigh-bone, more then four feet in Length, found in Syria. Hub166500020A Mummy intire, and adorned with Hieroglyphicks, that shew both the antiquity, and eminent Nobility of the Person whose Corps it is, and is above two thousand years old. It was taken out of one of the Egyptian Pyramids. 2 II. Rarities of BEASTS and Parts of them. Hub166500030Hahut or Sloth, a four-footed Animal of Florida, in the Head and Neck somewhat resembling a Man. It hath three Claws on each foot, but the Claws are like a Boars Tuskes. It is the slowest of all Beasts, from whence it hath its Name, for it will be a quarter or half an houre going a Fingers length. Hub166500040A Haget, a Creature of the Island Mayonto in the Lake Yondarro, two hundred miles from Hudsons River in America. It hath a Costly Furre, sleeps six months, and is held for excellent meat in that Country. Hub166500050A Linx, a very quick sighted fierce Creature, as big as an ordinary Water Spaniel, having an excellent Furre. This Beast leap't from a Tree, and had almost kill'd a Woman, but that she was speedily delivered by a Moor, who shot him to death. It was given by Mr. Linzey Chyrurgion of Popler. Hub166500060An Ermine, which chuses rather to suffer 3 death, then to be defiled; as some Authors testifie. Hub166500070A Monstruous Catt, with two bodies, one head, eight leggs and two tayles. It was presented by a worthy friend Mr. Thornton, Chaplain to the right Honorable the Earle of Bedford. Hub166500080A Muske Quashe or Water Ratt of Russia. This Creature lives in fresh Waters and Rivers and has a large long Tayle, and Ducks-Feet behinde, the better to swimme withal. Hub166500090A very great and perfect Water-Otter, given to the augmentation of this Collection, by Sr. Rich. Everard one of the Burgesses of Parliament, and a great lover of ingenuity. Hub166500100A Monstrous Calf, with two Heads, and two Tayles, with a perfect Body. Hub166500110A Tamanduaguacu, or Ant-Bear of Brasile, so called, because it lives only upon Antes. It resembles in some part or other, six or seven sorts of Creatures; being breecht like a Bear, bristled on the back like a Boar, branded like a Badger, his head long like a Birds 4 bill, his ears like a Childs, his fore-feet like a Dogs, his hinder like an Apes, his hair flat like graffe. A Rarity hard to be procured. Hub166500120A flying Squirrel, a little Beast of Virginia, that flyes from Tree to Tree, by extending of its skin on either side. Hub166500130A very perfect Leopards-skin, with Head, Teeth, Feet, Claws and Tail, a beautifull perfect Rarity. Hub166500140An Intire Cubbe of a Bear stuft and dryed in its proper skin. Hub166500150A Scelleton of a little Marmoset. Hub166500160A perfect Hedge-hog. Parts of Beasts. Hub166500170The Hornes of a Dog, of a Land near China. Hub166500180The Hornes of a Hare, which were the Prince Electors of Saxony. Hub166500190A Rhinoceros Hub166500200Horn, that was given me by his Highnesse the Duke of Holstein, 5 Hub166500210and a Claw Hub166500220and Scale of a Rhinoceros, which is esteemed the Unicorne. Hub166500230A very long winding Horn of a Ram from Germany. Hub166500240The Black Hornes of a Russia Ram, four growing together, two streight, and two crooked. Hub166500250A strange Horn of a Virginia Deere. Hub166500260A strange Horn of a German Rain Deere. Hub166500270Another sort of Rain Deeres Horn. Hub166500280A pair of little Antelopes Hornes. Hub166500290A large Horn of an Ibex, a kind of a Goat that feeds upon high Mountains, and climbs the steepest Rocks, relying on the strength of his Hornes, on which when he slips, he casts himself to secure his body. Hub166500300An Affrican Buffles Horn. Hub166500310A strange little Horn of a Deer. Hub166500320A large pair of Velvet Hornes of a Green-land Deere. 6 Hub166500330The Heads of a Male and Female Barbarouse, either of them as big as a Swines Head. It is a strange beast of the Deserts of East India, it hath two Tusks like a Boar in the lower Jaw, and two great Tusks growing upon the Nose, with which it reaches certain branches for its food. Hub166500340A Guinney Bats-skin larger then a great Coney-skin. Hub166500350A soft Ball of Hair bigger then a mans fist, found in the maw of a Calf in Holland. Hub166500360A Black Ball with a hard shell, found in the stomack of a wild Bull in Brasil. Hub166500370A little Orbicular Ball hard and light, found in the stomack of a strange Beast of India. Hub166500380A strange Tuske of a great Boar. Hub166500390Two different great Teeth of an Hippopotamus. Hub166500400A Cow-tail bushy and long. It is of one of the Cows that are worshipped by a people near the River Ganges. 7 Hub166500410An extraordinary great Foot of a White Bear. Hub166500420Besides the things above mentioned, there are in a Hub166500430Chest great variety of strange Hub166500440Bones, Hub166500450Teeth Hub166500460and Clawes of many different Creatures. III. BIRDS. Hub166500470A Phenicopter or Passoflamingo, given by the Ingenious lover of Rarities Mr. Povey Treasurer to his Hignesse Highness the Duke of Yorke. This Bird is good meat, and was much esteemed by the delicate-mouthed Romans. Hub166500480A Manucodiata or Bird of Paradise, found only in the Molucco-Islands, but never seen a live. They are not without Feet, as the Ancients report, for they have great ones; and therefore tis likely they perch upon Trees in a Land as yet unknown: from whence by a Wind that blowes six Moneths one way, and six Moneths another, they are some of them carryed up so high (as they 8 may easily be by reason of their sharp Head, small Body, and great feather'd Tayl) that they fall down dead in another Country. Hub166500490A Bird called the Halcyon of East India. Hub166500500A Tropick-Bird, so called because it is never seen but under or near the Tropicks, so that the Mariner upon sight of them know whereabouts they are. It is a Sea-Fowl, having his body of a Gray Colour, the Feathers of his Wings White, but their Quils Black, his Bill like a Crow's, but very Red, his Feet like a Ducks, but party-Coloured. Hub166500510An Arcuata Coccinea, a sort of Sea-Curlew, highly esteemed by the Natives of Brasile, who call it Guaro. It changes the Colour of its Feathers thrice, viz. from Black to Ash-Colour, and then to White, but the second year puts on new ones of a Scarlet, which the longer the Bird lives it grows more bright and orient; It is found in Marahoon and Rio de Janeiro. It was given me together with the full Relation of it, by the learned Dr. Charlton one of the Kings Majestis Physitians in Ordinary, and excellently knowing in Natural Rarities. 9 Hub166500520A Sea-Crow, it is as big as a Raven, it hath Feet like a Duck, and a Bill like a Crow. Hub166500530A strange Sea-Fowle as big as a Goose, it is called the Sea Pinguin. It cannot fly, for his Wings are like Finnes, and is so thick of Feathers that one cannot shoot him, unlesse behind against the growth of his thick Down or Feathers; he is found threescore leagues from the Coast of Canada. Hub166500540A Sea-Parret or Coppernose of Greenland; the Bill is of several colours, but the Feet of a scarlet, and like a Duck. Hub166500550A great Bird of Guiney called the Guiney-Wake, it somewhat resembles a Peacock in the head, and hath a tuft like the bristles of a Hog on the top of his head, and a scent like Musk, but as ill-favored feet as the Peacock. Hub166500560A Sea-Pidgeon of Green-land, this bird is all white. Hub166500570A little Sea-Blackbird of Green-land, his wings are black and white, and his little Duck feet Red. Hub166500580Several Tominci or Humming Birds of se 10 veral Countries, which live by the dew that they suck from the flowers with their little long tongues. Hub166500590A rare Hub166500600Humming Bird of a lesser sort then ordinary; the Bird and Hub166500610Nest together not weighing 12. grains. Parts of BIRDS. Hub166500630The Head and Bill of the Bird Ibis of Egypt by the Turks called Mahomets Bird, the Bird that first taught the use of Glysters. In that Country there is a Law that condemnes any to death, who kills one of them; they do such good service in devouring the Serpents that abound there. Hub166500660An Indian Storkes head and bill. Hub166500680An Acora's Hub166500690head and Hub166500700bill of Brasil. Hub166500710A Pelican's Hub166500720head, Hub166500730bill and Hub166500740bag, with the feet, shewing it to be a Water-fowle. He makes himself not bleed purposely to feed his young ones (as the Ancients report) but accidentally, only by the grating of shell-fish, which he carries in his thin bag. Hub166500750Hub166500760A marvelous great head and Hub166500770bill of a Bird yet unknown. 11 Hub166500790A Toucan's head and bill of Peru; the head and bill of that bird is bigger then all his body; it is a very rare one and did belong to the King of Spain. Hub166500810The Hub166500820head, Hub166500830legge Hub166500840and egge of an Estridge. The Hub166500860head and bill of a Stone-pecker of Germany. Hub166500880A Hub166500890legge and Hub166500900egge of an Emeu or Casawares. Hub166500910A legge of a Dodo, a great heavy bird that cannot fly; it is a Bird of the Mauricius Island. Hub166500920Hub166500930A strange Birds head Hub166500940and beak of Brasil, called Gibaruguacu, 11. inches long. Hub166500950Hub166500960A Shovelers head Hub166500970and beak. Hub166500980Hub166500990The head Hub166501000and beak of a true Griffin. It is a sort of Vulture, those with hinder parts like Lyons being mearly fabulous. Hub166501010Hub166501020A great and strange head Hub166501030and bill of a great Bird of East Indies, called the Humgum, for the humming noyse it makes in flying. It is like a double bill. 12 Hub166501040The head of an Eagle. Hub166501050Hub166501060A great Albitrosses head Hub166501070and foot. It is a strange fowl for the shape of his beack, and very ravenous, as making a pray of fish or fowl, therefore called by Sea-men the Man of War. He is a bird of East Indies near the Line; It hath one foot like a Swans, and the other like an Eagles. Hub166501080Several sorts of Egges of Birds, Fishes and Serpents. Hub166501090A Nest of a Bird in Africa, built with a long neck on a Tree, to secure it self and young ones from Apes and Monkies. Hub166501100A Nest of a Bird made like the secret parts of a man, by a little Bird in Brasil, to secure him and his youngones from the Serpents. Hub166501110Three Nests of Birds of East Indies, built one over another, the uppermost being in shape like the secret part of the Femal sex. Hub166501120A Nest of a little Bird of China, no body doth well know of what material it is made; but the great persons of that Country eat it for good-meat. 13 Hub166501130A large bush of black Feathers, in Rarity and beauty exceeding that of the great Turks or Sultans, which the master of these Rarities saw at Constantinople. IV. Whole FISHES. Hub166501140A Shoveller or blew Sharke, it is a female one big and perfect, given by Doctor Eastgate, Physitian in Popler. Hub166501150A great male-Sharke, it is differing in form from the female very much. Hub166501160Another sort of Sharke, called the Monk-fish-Sharke. The Sharkes ingender like four-footed Creatures on Land, and have ten or twelve at a litter; When their young ones are in any danger they receive them into their stomach, and then disgorge them out again. Hub166501170A Spotted Dog-fish of the Coast of France. 14 Hub166501180A Shovel Dog-fish, it is a species of Sharke, his eyes are seated of a great distance one from the other. It was given by his Highness the Duke of Holstein. Hub166501190A little prickled Dog-fish of the German Sea. Hub166501200A great Frog-fish of the Baltick Sea, this fish is as big as a great Hog, and hath two sprigs like wyers on the forepart of his head. Hub166501210A Sea-Otter. This Creature is an Amphibium, and hath his forefeet like finnes, but seated in the midst of his body like a crosse, his skin is hairy like down or silk, and no lesse soft and bright. Hub166501220A Sea-Leopard, so called from his spots, it is a species of Seale, and is also an Amphibium. Hub166501230A little Sea Calfe or Seale which also participates of both Elements, he hath four short feet, whereof the two hinder broad, but no ears, the better to endure long in the water.Olaus the Great writes, that this Creature is the most unconstant to his female of any, 15 which is the cause oftentimes of his death, for the fishermen take him by counterfeiting the braying of a female; they are common in the Finland-Sea. Hub166501240A Sea-Wolf, it is a Creature that hath the strongest jawes, and sorest biting teeth of any for his bignesse: for his head being cut off from his body; living a quarter or half an hour after is able to bite ones hand off. Hub166501250A Sea-Ape, so called for his form, and called the Joynt fish for its nature; for if one holds ones hand afore his head, when he is living it makes the Joynts of hand and arme to crack. This fish is found in Brasil. Hub166501260A great Sea-Tortise, it is a Creature much addicted to generating, for the male will remain on the female ten days or more; to the great impoverishing of himself, even to carri-on but to the bettering of the female, which will thereupon lay four or fivehundred egges at a time in a hole she makes in the sands, where she covers them, and so they are afterwards hatched by the sun. Hub166501270A little Tortoise, called the Hawks-bill-Tortoise. 16 Hub166501280 A very little Tortoise newly hatcht out of its egge: All Sea-Tortises are very good meat when they are in season. Hub166501290A male Conny-fish, armed with a hard shell, and two hornes or prickles before and two behind. Hub166501300A Triangular-fish, it is a female Conny-fish, larger then the male, the better to contain her spawn, and is also armed with the like hard shell, but not with prickles: nature forcing her to follow the male for her defence. Hub166501310A Poyson-fish of East India, it is so venemous that thirteen men in a ship dyed by eating one of them, he is called by some the Sea-Hare, it is for its forme something long and fore square, and is a species of Conny-fish. Hub166501320A four Prickled-fish of East India, never taken with others of different species: for because of the prickles he hath before and behind, which threaten death to any that shall swallow him, other fishes (though never so great) are affraid of him, and avoid his company. 17 Hub166501330A long narrow fish called the Sea-Pelican for the form of its head, also it is called the Sea-Dart; for form of his body, the Tail is like the head of a barbed arrow; the fish is rare and not mentioned by Authors. Hub166501340A great Porcupine-fish of the West India. Hub166501350A Hedge-Hog-fish, it is a species of the Sea Porcupine, only the prickles are shorter: It was given as an addition to these Rarities by his Highnesse the Duke of Holstein. Hub166501360A Sea-Mouse, so called for the form of its head and beard, this fish (contrary to the nature of other fishes) shrieks out of the water like a mouse, it is about a foot long, and in colour and shape like a Serpent, were it not for his fins. It is good meat. Hub166501370A great horned Soal-fish. It is like a large Soal, but hath his mouth right a fore, with one great horne between his eyes, and both the sides of his body of one colour, different from the nature of other Soals, that are brown on one side and white on the other; This is not common. Hub166501380A Saw-fish, Vulgarly called the Sword-fish, 18 but is not. This fish is the enemy to the Whale, for with the prickles of his weapon he torments the Whale so much, that the great monstrous fish kills her self by swimming too hastily without her Pilot-fish against the shore or Rocks, her body being so fat and heavy, and her skin so thin. Hub166501390A Sturgeon of Holland. Hub166501400A Sturgeon of another species, such as is found in Hungary. Hub166501410A Parret or Angrey fish of Brasile, it is a species of Globe-fish which cannot swim in a storm, and therfore fills his maw with stones, to lye steady in the bottom of the water. Hub166501420A Sucking-fish of Iseland, it is a species of Lump-fish, it likewise cannot swim in a storm, but sticks to the Rocks with a seeming mouth, that is under the fore part of his belly. Hub166501430An Hermit-fish of the bottom of the Sea, it is a Creature that liveth in the shell of another fish, the fishermen make use of them to baite for other fishes withall. Hub166501440A Woodcock-fish of the Baltick Sea, his 19 head is like a long bill full of sharp teeth, and for the length is counted a Sea-Serpent. Hub166501450A Souldier-fish, it is a Creature that liveth on Mountains or highlands, in the Caribean Island under the roots of trees; but once a year cometh to the Sea side to spawn in vast multitudes, and then they possess themselves of the shells of other fishes, and so march back again with their plundred shells. This Creature is very good meat. Hub166501460A prickled Toad-fish of India, being a species of Globe-fish. Hub166501470A Sceleton of a great Toad-fish, it is like a Net, and a very singular Rarity. Hub166501480An extraordinary great headed Gournet, it is much different from the red Gournet. It is very great and an excellent tasted meat. Hub166501490An Angel-fish, so called for his beautifull colours, that it hath under water. This is of the West Indies. Hub166501500A great flying-fish or Sea-Swallow, that flyes sometimes aboard the ships, thinking to escape a fish that is his adversary so be 20 comes a good friend to man, by being good meat when it is well dressed. Hub166501510A lesse sort of Flying-fish, with its four wings extended. Hub166501520Another sort of great Flying-fish of the Straits; this species hath the wings larger, but not so long, and the head and scales of a different forme, and is also a good tasted fish. Hub166501530A Trumpet fish of the Baltic-Sea, it is a kind of Sea-Serpent, and somewhat resembles the Needel-fish. Hub166501540A Smith-fish, it is likewise called St. Peters-fish, the one half is the head, and the other half is the body; It was given by his Highnesse the Landgrave of Hessen. Hub166501550A Wave-fish, so called for the manner of the growing of his scales. Hub166501560A Weapon-fish of Bermudas: This fish hath a long sharp bone on the back to defend himself, which he raiseth or leteth fall in a hollow case when he will. 21 Hub166501570Another sort of Weapon-fish of the West Indies. Hub166501580A fish called the Sea-Cocke of the Spanish-Coast. Hub166501590A little fish of Guiney called the Cataphractus, which hath prickles on the fore part of the head that are venemous. Hub166501600A fish called the Sea-Scorpion, for his venemous prickles, and his body or skin is spotted with weite spots. Hub166501610A Sun-fish so called for sleeping in the Sun, and the Moon-fish for shining in the Night, to the amazement oftentimes of Seamen that see so great a light. This fish is of a strange forme, for tis like a head only, but hath a very little mouth for so great a body. Hub166501620A Polypus being a round bonelesse-fish, with eight feet and a mouth like a Parrots beak, in the midst of the body, and having within a bag of black liquor (very good ink) which when he is closely pursued by men or fishes, he spurts out through an orifice (by instinct of nature) and thereby so darkens the water, that he escaps from them. 22 Hub166501630A flat flowered Starre-fish of German-Sea. Hub166501640A great Netted Starre-fish, so called for his forme. It is one of the sensiblest Creatures of the world, and hath but one eye; it was given by Sr. Thomas Wardner, Governor of St. Christophers Island. Hub166501650A very rare great Star-fish of India. This fish feeds one flat shell-fishes, and his mouth is in the center of his body. Hub166501660A large Comett with six points, a fish of India, it is a species of Star-fish. Hub166501670A little Crowned Star-fish of the Coast of Denmarke. Hub166501680A five Finger-Fish, it is a species of Star-fish of India, it hath five points, long, round and narrow, like ones finger, of a flesh-colour, but at present being dry it is whitish. Hub166501690A little round boded Star-fish, of the Coast of Holland. Hub166501700A little Star-fish of a different species from the forementioned. 23 Hub166501710A little Star-fish with twelve points, taken on the Coast of England, it is also called the Sun-fish for it's forme. Hub166501720A little sort of Star-fish of England, it is in forme like a Mullet or a Spurre-Rowell. Hub166501730Another Star-fish also of England different from all the others. Hub166501740A great Sea Crab of England. Hub166501750A King Crab of the Moluccos Islands. This Creature has its eyes on his back, and is also called a Sea Spyder, for its resemblance to a land Spyder. Hub166501760A prickled Crab of Norway, it is also called the Sea Spyder, it has little clawes on his feet like Birds clawes; It was given to the augmenting of these Rarities, by the learned Petrus Carisius, the King of Denmarks Resident in the United Provinces. Hub166501770A great Crab, having its shell covered with Oysters that are grown to it, a Rarity worth considering. Hub166501780A White Land-Crab, it is like a deaths head, 24 and it lives in the ground like Connies in a burrow, in some Islands of the West Indies. Hub166501790Another species of King Crab or Sea Spyder, but as light as a sheet of Paper, yet it is as big asan ordinary face. It is of the West Indies. Hub166501800A Torpedo or Benumming fish, for it taketh away the sense of feeling from the fishermans hand when it is in his Net. It is a fish of Africa, and did belong to the King of France. Hub166501810A very perfect great and true Remora of of of India, whose property is to hinder or stay ships as they swim, (if we will believe Heathen Philosophers) it hath on its head many open spaces out of which proceeds a glutinous humour, whereby it sticks so fast to any smooth thing, that a man cannot well loosen it, unlesse he shove it from him, as the Master of these Rarities hath tryed, Hub166501820A strange black Plaice from the Denmark Sea. Hub166501830A little fish called the Sea Owle for its form. It is a species of prickled Globe fish. Hub166501840A Hippocampus of the Mediterranean Sea, his belly is very venomous, 25 Hub166501850An Hippocampus of Brasil, of another sort; for he hath a little white horn under his head. Hub166501860 A little Spouting or Fountain fish; for it sticks to the Rocks, and when one will take him he spouts the water in ones face. Hub166501870A strange sort of Oyster, that is called the Sentry fish for his nature; for it is fastned to the Rocks, and most commonly stands open to catch fish, for as the fishes thinks to eat him, he takes his enemy prisoner, and then entertains him as good meat. Hub166501880A Navell fish, it is a slymy mishapen thing, that sticks to the Rocks and contracts it self in the shape of a Navell, but is a venemous Creature. Hub166501890A true Purple fish, that sticks to the Rocks; it is an insect of the Sea, composed of many hard shells layd over one another like the scales of Wood-lice. I walking by the Sea side to search after the secrets of Nature, found one of them in the West Indies: but wondred at the variety of colours wherewith it stained my hand. For, first it was green, then blew, afterwards purple, and 26 lastly it became a beautifull Red, and taking my handkerchief to my hands, it died the same likewise, and the colour remained in the linnen not to be washed out. Hub166501900A Limpet which sticks also to the Rocks, it is an Insect of the Sea, having a flat shell, but the Creature within is something like a snaile with little Horns, and is very good meat. Hub166501910A Needle-fish, it is a small little long fish of the forme of a pack Needle. Hub166501920A Sea Louse: It is also an insect of the Sea in Greenland, and sticks to the Whale for food. Hub166501930Some Sea Fleas, which when the Sea is at a low Ebbe, they are found by hundred under some Racks or weeds after stormes, on the sands by the shore side. Hub166501940Some Sea Scorpions: They are also Insects of the Sea, and have six feet like a Scorpion, and a long taile. Hub166501950Some Mint fishes: They are little round Creatures, which when they be dry, are flat and marked like money. 27 Hub166501960A Sea Eye: It is a species of the Mint fish, round and clear like gelly, but venemous. Hub166501970A Sea insect called the Sea Shears: It hath many scales like a wood louse, two long hornes and a forked tayle. Hub166501980A water insect called Squilla Fluviatilis, or the Water Crickets. Hub166501990A little Sea Serpent something resembling a Conger, but the head is bigger for the proportion of its body. Hub166502000A Paraquito fish of the Adriatic Sea: It is a little green fish that is of the colour of a Paroquito when it is new taken, and hath small teeth afore like a Mouse. Hub166502010A little Burre-fish: It is green like a Burre that sticks to ones cloaths, and is one of the species of Icus Marinus. Hub166502020A little fish found in moorish grounds in Swedland, it hath a little prickle on the back that is venemous. Hub166502030A fish of Brasil, called the Guacucuya. This fish hath a horn on the forepart of the head, 28 and is in colour and shape like a Toad. Parts of FISHES. Hub166502040A Sea Elephants or Rock fishes head very great. This sort of fish loves to be near the Rocks, therefore the Seamen when they espy the fish, come not near the place for fear of a Rock under water. Hub166502050A head of a Sea Sheep, of Caepe de Var in Africa; The fish is good meat, and the head very like a Sheeps head. Hub166502060A very great Sea Hors-head with all his great teeth; this fish living is of such strength that he can overturn a Heigh of fishers-Bark. Hub166502070A Sea Lyons-head, so called for its forme; It is a species of Dog-fish, but is very good meat especially the liver. Hub166502080A Crack-shell-fishes head. This fish lives upon shell-fishes, and hath three great teeth in the inner part of his mouth, with the which he grinds great shells to small peeces; it is a fish of America. 29 Hub166502090A great Sea Catts-head of China: It is as big as a mans head. Hub166502100A great Sturgeons-head; It is a Rarity hard to be procured, for the bigger the head of the Sturgeon is, the more difficult it is to dry, because it is very fat; the Sturgeon hath no teeth, but sucks in his food by a round role that is under his head. Hub166502110A Hub166502120head Hub166502130and tayle of a Dolphin, the Dolphin tayle is different from all other fish, for it grows thwartwise, the better to rebound out of the water, as he do's often against a storme. Hub166502150A great Sword-fishes head and sword, it is one of the swiftest fishes that swims. It is of the Black Sea, and is excellent meat sliced and broyled, with oyle, pepper, salt, and the juice a lemon on it. Hub166502170A Sea Morce-head, it is a fish of Lap-land, and of Norway, also of Green-land; This fish do's sleep hanging on the Rocks by the great teeth of the upper jaw, and so is taken in those parts. Hub166502180A strange fishes head, that did belong to the King of Bohemia. 30 Hub166502190An extraordinary great Tortises head of East India; it is called the green or logger-headed Tortoise for its bignesse. Hub166502200A Dagger fishes head; it is a species of Sea-Unicorne. Hub166502210The head of a fish of Madagascar, that moves the upper jaw, and not the lower, and tis reported that it turns on his back to take its food. Hub166502220The head of a fish that is found in fresh Rivers, as the Danubius in Hungaria, and the Elbe in Saxe; it is a fish with a round great head, and very small eyes not proportionable to the head, and two long hornes like a beard; it is a good tasted fish, and is called the Silurus. Hub166502230A great Sea Dragons head; it is also called Aquila Marina; it is a species of a great Raja. Hub166502240A great broad head of a fish called by some Authors, the Sea-Hammer; it hath teeth like a Sharke. Hub166502250The jaws of a Sea Tyger, it hath cruel 31 sharp and long teeth. This fish is the most dangerous sort of Sharkes. Hub166502260The great jaws of a very great Tabourein; it is a species of Sharke, and hath four or five tyre or rows of teeth. It was sent the Master of these Rarities from the West Indies, by the Governor of St. Christophers, Sr. Thomas Wardner. Hub166502270A Rib of a Triton or Mereman, taken by Captain Finny upon the shouls of Brasil, five hundred Leagues from the Maine; given by Doctor Estgate Physitian. Hub166502280The Vein of the tongue of that Whale that was taken up at Greenwich, a little before Cromwells death; it is like a Vine-stock that is withered. Hub166502285Hub166502290A peece of the skin of a Whale, Hub166502291the pizzle eight or nine foot long, Hub166502292the drumpanne, Hub166502293a tooth, Hub166502294a fin of one of the Gills, some twelve foot long, and Hub166502296the bone that the Whale spouts the water out withal, and Hub166502297the neck bone. Hub166502300A tayl of a Stingray, it will saw like an Iron saw. 32 Hub166502310A very great Saw, or weapon of a Saw-fish, with the which he torments the Whale. Hub166502320An extraordinary great tooth of some fish. Hub166502330A round flat bone of a fish like a pancake. Hub166502340An extraordinary great Lobsters claw. Hub166502350A very large Blatta-Bizantia, which amongst other properties, hath a specifick vertue to cure the fits of the mother. Hub166502360Also many hundreds of very rare and beautifull shells of fishes, all different in their formes, works or colours; and other things belonging to Animals, in chests and boxes. Hub166502370Hub166502380Amongst some of them a rare Mother of pearl, or pearl-oyster, with an oriental-pearl in the midst; Hub166502390a Carval fish shell of the Red Sea, a Nautilus of the East India, Hub166502400and two or three species of shells, that contrary to the general nature of all shells, grow towards the left hand, Hub166502405another shell that hath the center on the bottom, which other shells have on the top. 33 V. SERPENTS, &c. Hub166502410A Serpent above twenty foot long of East India, it hath in the upper chap four rows of teeth, this Serpent when he was liveing, could swallow men or beast. Hub166502420A long narrow Serpent, like a peece of narrow hair-coloured Satten, edged with white Satten. Hub166502430A beautifull Serpent called Ibaboca of Brasil, some ten or twelve foot long. Hub166502440A spotted Serpent of the Island Jamaica; This with the three following Serpents was given to the increase of these Rarities, by worthy Mr. Povey one of the Royal Society of Philosophers, and Treasurer to his Highnesse the Duke of Yorke. Hub166502450A gray coloured Serpent, this Serpent being held before the light, the skin appears like Net-work. 34 Hub166502460A Gold coloured Serpent, for his skin is like cloth of Gold. Hub166502470Another Serpent of India like cloth of Silver, with black spotts. Hub166502480A black Serpent of Virginia, it is eaten for good meat. Hub166502490A Boicininga or Rattle Snake; Nature has formed him with a rattle at his tayl, that men might avoyd the danger of his biting; for being once bitten by him, a man dyes in half an houre, unlesse he hath of the rattle Snake-roote to apply to the offended place, and eat a little of it also; therefore the Savages of Virginia seldom travel without it. Hub166502500A very intire Viper of Italy. Hub166502510A Viper of Germany. Hub166502520An Adder of England. Hub166502530A Slow-Worme of Hessen. Hub166502540A little Serpent of Germany. Hub166502550Another coloured little Serpent. 35 Hub166502560A great Tatoo or Armadillo of the Duke of Orleans; It lives under ground like a Mole, and is as big as a pretty big dog; it is a great Rarity in the East India, and a noble present of so great a Prince. Hub166502570An Armadillo of the West Indies, that is esteemed good meat there. Hub166502580Another sort of Armadillo of East India, that was presented King James for a great Rarity. Hub166502590A great Crocodile, given by worthy Mr. William Courtine Esq; a lover of vertue and Rarities. Hub166502600A little spotted Crocodile of Egypt. Hub166502610A very little Crocodile as it first came out of his egge, that is as big as a Goose egge. Hub166502620A very fine spotted Aligater of Brasil; it is a species of Crocodile. Hub166502630A great Lizzard of Africa, that is said to be so loving to Man, that if the Man be asleep and in danger of some other creature, he will then awake him. 36 Hub166502640Another species of Lizzard of Numidia, or of Arabia; it is called by some the Land-Crocodile. Hub166502650An extraordinary rare Lizzard, about a yard and a half in length, it is as it were curiously embroydred by nature, with yellowish spots on a dark ground, very pleasant to behold. Hub166502660A Bugelugey, it is a Creature of some parts of Africa, it is a kind of Lizzard that hath great scales like a fish, and black haire under the belly, it is Amphibium, living in Rivers and on the land. Hub166502670Another sort of Lizzard of the West Indies, of a greenish colour. Hub166502680A Cameleon of Barbary, it is said to live only by the air, but it is not so; for he lives by food, and yet he can live long without food, his skin being so nervous and very little porous. Hub166502690An extraordinary great Cameleon, about 27. or 28. inches long. It is the property of this Creature to change suddenly into divers colours; not according to the colour of the ob 37 jects that are successively before him (as some affirm) but (as I have often observ'd them while they were sitting on Trees) according to the divers motions of his spirits, in anger, fear, grief, delight, &c. his skin being very nervous, and somewhat shining. Hub166502700A true Salamander, which is fabulously reported to live continually in the fire, as his element; but will indeed live longer therein then any living Creature of his bignesse, for the mucous moisture of his skin protects him a while, and damps the fire, as milk or glew. Hub166502710Another sort of Salamander, called the Water-Salamander, for its living in standing water in caves where the sun never shines; it is headed and footed like the other Salamander, and of a could venomous nature. Hub166502720A Guaena of America, it is a sort of Lizzard as big as a good Rabit, but in those parts held for better meat, it lives by the fruits of trees, and is so harmelesse, that one may safely take him by the tayle as he is on a tree. Hub166502730A fair Sincus Terrestris of Egypt, it hath 4. feet like a Lizzard, but resembles a fish with little scales, lives on land, as well as water. 38 Hub166502740Another lesse Cincus of Cyprus, it is said that one part of its body is cooling, but the other part is provocative to man or woman. Hub166502750A coal black Toade. Hub166502760Froggs with two feet and a tayle. Hub166502770Frogs with foure feet and a tayl. Hub166502780A black land Tortaise full of little yellow specks, such as those of Germany or Greece. Hub166502790A little land Tortaise of Canada, called Night Tortaise, for his black ground and round yellow spots. Hub166502800Another species of Tortaise of Virginia. Hub166502810A great land Tortaise of Madagascar, different from all others in the rare spots and works of his shell; this shell is like an Ancient Roman Head-peece. Hub166502820Divers other sorts of Land Tortaises of East and West Indies. When the Tortaises are about to engender, the male strives with the female, who yeilds by constraint for fear of being overturned by him; for being over- 39 turned they cannot well recover themselves without the help of one another, therefore they alwayes go together for mutual assistance. VI. Insects or FLIES. Hub166502830Two sorts of Scorpions. Hub166502840A Guiney flie bigger then a Sparrow, called the Bill-Scarabeus, or Toddy-flie. They will 30. or 40. of them usually joyn together, and with their long bils saw part of the Toddy-tree, to make liquour of it issue out, which then they will suck till they be drunk. Hub166502850A rare great flie called by the Indians Nocoonaca, it is like wrought-velvet, and of several colours, and like Turky carpet-work. Hub166502860A great Scarabeus of the Amazones, very entire, and of beautifull colours. Hub166502870A Lanterne flie of Peru, called the Cucuya. Two or three of these flies fastened to a stick, serve insteed of a lantern to give light to those that travel in that Country. 40 Hub166502880A black flie, called the Elephant flie for his form. Hub166502890A Buck flie of Germany called for his horns. Hub166502900A Leopard flie so called for the colours of the spots on his body. Hub166502910 A Parret flie so called for his shape, and for his rare changeable colours. Hub166502920 A Mole flie so called for his four feet, and for his silken hairy down. Hub166502930A very great and rich coloured Cantharides of the East Indies. Hub166502940An Emerauld flie so called for his rare glittering green colour. Hub166502950A Saphir flie so called for his bright shining blew colour. Hub166502960A dark green coloured flie called the Musk flie, for his odoriferous sent when he is a live. Hub166502970A West India Cacaroche, it is an Insect somewhat broad, but can insinuate himself in the least chink of a chest, to the great offence of 41 men, by spoiling of leather, or wollen cloaths. Hub166502980A little brown Scarabeus of East India. Hub166502990A Rare and great Dragon flie. Hub166503000A Rare Butter-flie of Germany. Hub166503010Hub166503020A Rare Butter-flie of Swedland, with Hub166503030several hundreds of other rare insects or flies, all different one from another either in shape or colours. Hub166503040A Golden spotted Indian Scarabeus. Hub166503050A Tortaise flie so called for his shape. 42 THE SECOND PART OF THE CATALOGUE. I. VEGETABLES. Hub166503060A Stick that is grown hollow like a Nett; it was Prince Maurice of Nassawes Rarity, that he brought out of Brasil. Hub166503070A Stick that is grown like a knott, and is a pipe to play on. Hub166503080A part of a plant of the Sea of India, that they make use of for a Trumpet, and if one strikes against the side of it, it sounds like mettall. 43 Hub166503090A Stick grown in shape like a Crosse. Hub166503100A Stick in shape like St. Andrews Crosse. Hub166503110A Stick wrynkled in forme like a Serpent, Hub166503120Another peece of wood, or Root, grown in resemblance of a Serpent with a head at both ends. Hub166503130A Stick or peece of wood grown like the secret parts of a man. Hub166503140Another Stick or peece of wood grown of another rare forme. Hub166503150A Stick with two branches grown together, it was a Rarity of the Marquesse of Badon. Hub166503160Another Stick grown with craggy knobbs, very strange, like some excrescence. Hub166503170An excrescence of wood in shape of a great Pine-Apple, grown at the end of a little stick, like a stalk to it. Hub166503180A Natural Brush or Broom of India. 44 Hub166503190A flat excresence, or a strange bough of an Ash-tree. Hub166503200A bagge grown on a tree like woven-stuff, or as tiffeny, or cobweblawn, it grows on the top of a kind of Palme. Hub166503210A very strange broad leaf grown like a Tailours, or Bodise-makers work, appearing as it were stitched together. Hub166503220A Stick full of thorns like Cock spurs, therefore called the Cock-spur-tree. Hub166503230An excrescence or plant, like a Rubbing-brush. Hub166503240A blossome of a sugar-cane. Hub166503250A branch of a Palme-tree of the Jews-land. Hub166503260A great codde or blossome of another species of Palme of the West Indies. Hub166503270A great blossome of the Fox-tayle-plant of St. Thomas de Lovando in Affrica. Hub166503280A Rose of Jerico that is a hundred years old, and yet will now open so wide, that it 45 cannot well be put in ones hat, and the next day will be closed lesse then ones fist. Hub166503290A right Cedar fruit, with a peece of the branch of one of the Cedars of Mount Libanon. Hub166503300A strange white plant, like mosse, or horse-hair, growing without roots on a stone; it hath this property, that whilst tis dry it is very brittle, but being wetted in water it becomes as tough as horse hair. It was found in Syria near Antioch. Hub166503310Several Eares of Corne, or Mace of Virginia, and other Countries, whereof one grain produces hundreds. Hub166503320An Eare of strange Corn in a Country in Affrica, whereof one grain produces more then a thousand. Hub166503330A Loaf of Bread made of the Cassado root, the sap or moisture of that root is deadly poyson, yet makes good bread, for the fire evaporates the malignant nature of it. Hub166503340A large Carob, a fruit that grows on a high-tree in the Caribies, the shell of it burnt, 46 casts a sent like perfume, and the inward part tastes like dry spiced bread. Hub166503350A Cocos fruit whole; the fruit and tree affords many necessary things for the benefit of Man, as milk, wine, water, oyle, needles, threed, boards, cordage, sayles, and other things. Hub166503360A Cocos nut something round, and representing a face. Hub166503370A long Cocos nut of another species, something like a fish in shape. Hub166503380An extraordinary great round Cocos nut, something rare for the bignesse. Hub166503390A square thing made of the Cocos bark, to cover the secret parts of men or women. It goes also for currant money in that part of Africa, if stampt with the arms of the Kingdom of Portugall: for that is the Royalty of the Portugais there. Hub166503400A Purse woven without a seam, made of the Cocos fruit. Hub166503410A fruit of Brasil that grows with a cover, 47 it is called the Apes nut, because when the fruit is ripe, the Apes open it, to eat the many kernells that are in it, the fruit is thick, hard, very heavy, grows naturally with a cover, therefore it is called the Coverd fruit. Hub166503420A great Maraca, a fruit of India, that hath an hard shell like a nut, but as big as a mans head, it is like the scull of a man with the futures. Hub166503430Another sort of Maraca, that grows on a high tree which one cannot well climb, because the branches are so small and so full of prickles, therefore the Rats, that love the nut well, are fain to tarry till it fals, and then they gnaw a hole in it and get out the meat: The savages make a strong drink of the sap within, and of the shells they make their necessary household stuffe, as cuppes, spoones, dishes and the like. Hub166503440A Ganobany fruit of Guiney. Hub166503450A Bacbob, one species of Ganobany, this fruit is great and heavy, and on the outside like velvet. It was given for a great Rarity by the King of Swedens Physitian. 48 Hub166503460A Tomarus fruit of Guiney, it is also a species of Ganobany. Hub166503470A great Gourd in the form of a pear. Hub166503480A red Gourd of Guiney. Hub166503490Another prety shap't Gourd. Hub166503500A great Maldiva Nut; This fruit is much esteemed in East India, and is a Royalty belonging to the King of Maldiva, for after a tempest it is cast out of the bottom of the Sea, and if any one do find it on the shoar, he may not take it for himself, but must bring it to the King or his officers, upon pain of death. Hub166503510 A fruit called a May-cock of Virginia, the outward part of it is meat there, and not the inward. Hub166503520A long Cassia fruit of Egypt. Hub166503530A bunch of Ethiopian Pepper. Hub166503540A Prickle Apple of India. Hub166503550A stinging long Bean of Brasile. 49 Hub166503560A fruit or great Bean like the heart of a sheep. Hub166503570A very strange light fruit as yet unknown. Hub166503580A great and strange root of a Bambous Cane of East India. Hub166503590A silke cotton cod, such as in China they make their fine paper of. Hub166503600Another species of silke cotton cod, of the West India. Hub166503610A little branch of the cotton wool tree, with the codds full of wooll. Hub166503620A male Orenge of Syo. Hub166503630A female Orenge. Hub166503640A Lemon that represents both the secret parts of an Hermaphrodite. Hub166503650A little double Pine-Apple. Hub166503660A fruit of Madagascar, in shape of a double pear. 50 Hub166503670A strange gourd, or rather two grown into one. Hub166503680A fruit called Genipapa, it is of the form of a Limon, but of a strange operation, for the juice is as clear as water, yet a little of it put on ones hand, dyeth it of a purple colour, but to redouble it with more of the same liquour, makes the place as black as Jett, and no art of man can fetch it out, but it will grow out of it self in nine days, and if the hogs eat of it, it doth not endanger them, but makes their fat of a purple colour. Hub166503690Two very perfect Mandrake roots, Hub166503693the one male and Hub166503696the other female, both of them did grow in Africa, they are esteemed of women in those parts, and are found by accident in the feilds, by a red flower that the root bears and a long stalk, when it is in perfection. II. Sea PLANTS, &c. Hub166503700A Very fair and great purple Sea feather. Hub166503710A large gray coloured Sea feather. 51 Hub166503720A fine lemon coloured Sea fan. Hub166503730A deep yellow coloured Sea fan, grown to a great pibble-stone. Hub166503740An Iron coloured Sea fan, as stiff as Iron wire. Hub166503750A Sea plant or little tree of black horn, for the branches being a little burnt, stink and wrinkle like horn, and being put in warm water become very soft, but the root or lower part is hard white stone. Hub166503760A very great Trumpet plant, that grows in the bottom of the Indian Sea, and they make Trumpets of them in those parts. Hub166503770A purple Sea plant, given by Docter Towers of Hamburgh. Hub166503780A very rare Sea plant of two colours. Hub166503790A fine yellow Sea plant like a branch of small Birch. Hub166503800A Sea plant like heath. Hub166503810A Sea plant like the hair of ones beard. 52 Hub166503820A very rare Sea Plant or Shrubb, with shell fishes incorporated in the branches, like fruits on a tree, it is of Africa, and rare and very strange. Hub166503830A great Sea plant of a gridelin coulor, and in shape like the green broom plant. Hub166503840A sort of Sea-feather, in colour whitish & is called the Sea-Cabbage for the forme. Hub166503850A black Sea-feather that is very hard. Hub166503860A Sea plant called the Sea Cobweb for its likenesse to a Cobweb. Hub166503870A Sea plant crustated, and the root stone. Hub166503880An extraordinary great Spunge. Hub166503890A black Spunge grown in branches, like a tree on a white Rock, its a very fine Rarity, A Spunge called the bush Spunge for the form of it. Hub166503900A Pype Spunge with Oyster shells grown on its something like a hand. 53 Hub166503910A Sea plant grown on a stone, and another stone on the plant. Hub166503920A plant of the Sea with whitecorall grown on it like isicles. Hub166503930A Sea plant grown in a white Corall. Hub166503940A strange species of Corall called the transparent Corall, it is of the colour of glue, and is of Brasil. Hub166503950A branch of the Solid white Corall. Hub166503960A tree of Rough white porous Corall, it is perfect and rare. Hub166503970A bush or tree of perforated Corall, it is also white and very perfect. Hub166503980A white Corall with little double shell-fishes, that grew in each part of it, its a Rarity that was uch much esteemed of the Emperour, in his Room of Rarityes. Hub166503990Another sort of white Corall grown on a plant of the Sea, different from the above metioned. 54 Hub166504000A branch of soft yellowish Corall, it is as light as a peece of cork. Hub166504010A very great and intier tree of hard yellow Corall, it is very strangely grown in an Oyster. Hub166504020A peece of black Corall which seems as if it were polished by art but is natural. Hub166504030A branch of black and white Corall, called the joynt Corall, for the form which is strange. Hub166504040A peece of red Corall on the Rock as it grew, the better to shew the manner how it groweth, for it is an errour to say that it is soft underwater. Hub166504050A peece of red Corall and white grwon grown one upon another. Hub166504060 A peece of red Corall grown on a shell. Hub166504070A perfect red Corall tree, the branches whereof are grown very intricately one into another; the tree weighs 13. ounces and a quarter. 55 Hub166504080A rare concretion of the Sea with several sorts of shells together. Hub166504090A concretion of Muscels together. Hub166504100A concretion of the Sea of stones and Iron together. Hub166504110A stone found in the bottom of the Sea in India, in the form of a vizard or humane-face. Hub166504120Some of the right red Alcyonium of the Red Sea, which makes the Sea appear of that colour, in the shallow places thereof where it grows. It is a species of Corall, but very porous. Hub166504130Over and above these Sea plants above-mention'd, there are in several shallow Hub166504140Chests or Boxes, hundreds of other sorts, viz. of Hub166504150Coralls, Hub166504160Corallins, Hub166504170Alcyaniams, Hub166504180Concretions of things of a different nature, Hub166504190Stones of the Sea, &c. which for brevity sake are not particulariz'd at present: but may be, when such worthy persons as are minded to buy the whole Collectiou Collection , please to require an account. 56 III. Minerals, Stones of strange shapes, and things turned into stones; with Chrystals and precious Stones. Hub166504200An Hungarian Rock of Vitriol, in the shape of a mans visage. Hub166504210A Rock of Copper and Christal together. Hub166504220A Rock of a kind of Emerauld and Amethist together. Hub166504230A Rock with Muscle shells. Hub166504240A Rock with whole flat shells, of a Mountain in Germany. Hub166504250A Rock of a quarry of Stone, near to the City of Frankeford. Hub166504260A Rock like a great piece of Wax or Rosin. Hub166504270A Rock of Mosse in Stone, once belonging to the Emperor Fardinando the third. 57 Hub166504280A Stone like the bottom shell of a great Oyster, but never was one. Hub166504290A True Etites or Eagle-Stone, so much esteemed. It once belonged to the King of Moroco, and Fesse; who bestows them only upon Embassadours and eminent persons, as Marks of his high favour, not permitting any others in his Country to keep them besides himself, whose perogative it is when he dyes to have some of these stones buried with him in token of his Royalty. Hub166504300A great Lapis Ammonis that is coal-black. Hub166504310A yellow stone like wax, that has on it the representation of a Vine Leaf or Flower, and is of a glittering substance. Hub166504320A large piece of Ice glass, but it is something brittle, and is a kinde of gipsum. Hub166504330An Extraordinary Rare Calcedonian Stone in a frame, it is like a piece of Ice on the ground. 58 Natural Landskips in Stone. Hub166504340A great Triangular stone that hath a natural representation of trees and bushes. Hub166504350A great Jasper stone in a frame, that represents a moorish ground with rivers, trees, and bushes. Hub166504360A Marble stone of the river Arnon in a frame; the Emperour Ferdinand the third confessed he never saw a rare, for it doth represent a bridge, and an old ruinous Tower, a tree with the bark, and birds flying in the Air; it was the great Duke of Florences Rarity. Hub166504370Another stone picture in a frame; it represents an arme of the Sea, with Cottages, and a Church by the water side. Hub166504380A very rare stone picture representing clowdy skyes, an excellent Rocky mountain, with a Cave in it, and a fore-land. This rare peece was given for the better perfecting this collection, by the Right Honorable the Earl of Pembrook and Montgomery. Hub166504390 Another very fine stone picture like a ruinous town on a hill. 59 Hub166504400Another stone of the same Nature also in a frame. Hub166504410A very rare stone picture, like a City all on fire; the Master of these Rarities had it as a rare thing from the Prince Elector of Cullens hands, as a favour. Hub166504420A white stone that represents a tree, as if it was made by art with a pen. Hub166504430Another very rare white stone that doth represent two or three trees also, as if they were drawn with a pen. Hub166504440Another stone of a yellowish colour, that represents naturally many bushes and trees, as if they were drawn artificially. Hub166504450A stone with the natural land-skip of a Castle on a hill, a Town at the bottom, and a pathway between, very pleasant to behold. Hub166504460A stone picture of Mosaick work, representing a haven and ships at Sea under sayl. Condensements or things turned into stone or mettal. Hub166504470A great peece of an old rotten post, turned 60 into hard heavy stone, and yet appears like wood. It was sent me from Master Patrick a reverend Divine. Hub166504480Another peece of worme-eaten wood petrified, yet reserving its colour. Hub166504490A peece of Oaken-wood turned into Jasper, it is polished on the one side, that the grain of the wood may appear, and was sawed off from a peece of wood like a billet. A Cardinal of Rome once possest it for a great Rarity. Hub166504500A peece of wood turned into stone of Logh-Earn in Ireland. Hub166504510A peece of wood turned into Iron ore, in Transilvania. Hub166504520A peece of Wood turned into Copper ore, in Germany. Hub166504530A stone that seems to have been severall lays of mud, and a horse-tayl plant buried in it, altogether petrified, a very strange Rarity. Hub166504540Another stone that hath been mud, and hath the impression of Polipotium, it is also very rare, 61 Hub166504550A Cake or Bisket in stone; it is a Rarity that was much esteemed by divers learned persons beyond Seas. Hub166504560A stone like a figge from a tree, or a figge turned into stone. Hub166504570A stone like a pear broken in the middle, and within it appears like the coar of a pear. Hub166504580An Oyster that is open, the upper shell and lower with the fish, all turned into stone. Hub166504590A Crab with the claws turned into stone. Hub166504600A great tooth of a land Creature turned into stone. Hub166504610A Rarity said to be part of the scull of a man or woman petrified. Hub166504620A Neck-bone of some Creature turned into stone. Hub166504630Two joynt-bones together of some Creatures leg or foot, turned into Iron ore, being as heavy as Iron, and appearing as it were rotten. Hub166504640The Impression of several fishes on black stones like slaets, of different forms and species. Hub166504650Hub166504655Divers other sorts of bones, Hub166504660shells of the Sea, and fresh waters, Hub166504670with snayls shells, Hub166504680fruits, Hub166504690Reeds, Hub166504700mosses and Hub166504710other things all turned into stone. Hub166504720A peece of Crystal very clear and rare, that 62 hath in the midst, a representation of a mossey figure, or horned statue, which appears to be three or four, by a pleasant reflection from the sides of the Crystal. Hub166504730A very rare Crystal, like a Town built on a hill, seeming to be hollow at the bottom, but is not. Hub166504740A peece of East India Crystal, it is white. Hub166504750A peece of West India Crystal, it is gray. Hub166504760A peece of European Crystal, that is very clear. Hub166504770A peece of yellow Crystal. Hub166504780A peece of Sea-green Crystal. Hub166504790A peece of blewish Crystal. Hub166504800A peece of blossome Crystal. Hub166504810A peece of wave Cyrstal. Hub166504820A peece of frisled Hub166504830Crystal, Hub166504840all these sorts of Crystals are called so for their forms or colours, with divers other species of Crystals, that are not nominated for brevity sake. IV. Mettals, Minerals, &c. Hub166504850Several sorts of Iron ores. Hub166504860Several Lead ores. Hub166504870Several Tinne ores. Hub166504880Several Copper ores. 63 Hub166504890Several Silver ores. Hub166504900Several Gold ores. Hub166504910Besides other Minerals growing something rare, as Copper and Crystal together, &c. Hub166504920A Hub166504930Touch-stone, Hub166504940and a Metalline substance, on the other side like Copper. Hub166504950An Iron bullet in the midst of a stone. Hub166504960A very strange kind of Mineral held to be Quick-silver, that is fixed in his mine, for being burnt, it turns into a stinking vapour, as Quick-silver doth. It is something rare, for the master of these Rarities, in his travels never saw more then two peeces, and this was one of them. Hub166504970Several sorts of Talkes. Hub166504980Several sorts of Sulphurs. Hub166504990Several sorts of Earths out of mines. Hub166505000Several sorts of other Hub166505010Minerals, as Hub166505020Cinabaris, Hub166505030Antimonium, Hub166505040Saffor, Hub166505050Flores-Martis, Hub166505060Murienum, Hub166505070Marcasits, and divers other Hub166505080Minerals, and the like. V. Precious Stones. Hub166505090AMethist in the mine. Hub166505100Granats in the mine. 64 Hub166505110A sort of rich Diamond in the mine. Hub166505120Calcidonian with the mine. Hub166505130Chrysolits in the mind. Hub166505140Jasper from the mine. Hub166505150Lapis-Lazuli from the mine. Hub166505160Malaguita from the mine. Hub166505170Turkeise from the mine. Hub166505180Vermilions from the mine. Hub166505190Rubies from the mine. Hub166505200Emerauld from the mine. Hub166505210Hyacinths from the mine. Hub166505220A Bohemian Topaz on a rich pedestal of black Ebony. Hub166505230Another rare Topaz, that hath in it a representation of a Forrest or bushy-hills, very pleasant to behold. Hub166505240And divers other kinds of precious Hub166505250stones, and sorts of Hub166505260Pearls, different in their colours and shapes, with several Hub166505270Toad-stones, and Hub166505280Eagle stones, and such like. Hub166505290A very beautifull peece of Amber, that hath a representation of a rising vapour, or cloud in the midst of it, very rare. Hub166505300Another peece of Amber, with a Bee in it. Hub166505310A pretty peece of Amber, with a fly above and an Ant at the bottom. Hub166505320Divers other peeces of transparent Ambers, that have all something or other in them, as flies, spyders, ants or the like. 65 VI. Divers stones of strange shapes & regular forms. Hub166505330Several Lapides Ammonis, or stones like Serpents, but different from that above mentioned. Hub166505340A very large Glossopetra of India. Hub166505350A Glossopetra on his Rock, it is of Malta, and differs from those of other Countries. Hub166505360Several stones like unto Cloak-buttons. Hub166505370Several Lapides Lincai, they are like arrow heads. Hub166505380Several Lapides Judaici, they are like fruits. Hub166505390Stones like Caps. Hub166505400Stones like Hearts. Hub166505410Stones like Starres. Hub166505420Stones in form as we picture the Sun, with the rays or beams about it. Hub166505430Stones like little wheels of watches. Hub166505440Stones like Crosses, of Gallicia and other parts. Hub166505450Little stones like Pillars. Hub166505460Stones like Screws. Hub166505470Stones like Pease or Garavances. Hub166505480Stones like darts-heads, they are thought to be Thunder-boults, and in Scotland they call them Helf-heads. Hub166505490Stones square like Dice, but are a species of Marcasets. 66 Hub166505500Stones with well formed impression. Hub166505510Stones in shape like Tobaco-rowls. Hub166505520A stone like a Dogs tooth. Hub166505530A stone like a little ear. Hub166505540A stone like the little toe of ones left foot. Hub166505550A stone like the secret parts of a woman. Hub166505560Agate stones like the eyes of fishes. Hub166505570Several stones like unto Sugar-plums. Hub166505580Stones like sweet-meates, march-pane, sugar-cake, sugar-candy white and brown, and the like, and divers other sorts of stones of the like nature. VII. Things of strange operation. Hub166505590A Hard white stone, that if one puts it in the fire, doth suddenly turn to dust. Hub166505600Stones that being put into a glasse of water, crack into small peeces so that one may hear them. Hub166505610A stone that smells only when it is blown on, and the harder one blowes, the stronger it sents. Hub166505620A stone that if one puts it on the fire gives an excellent smell, Hub166505630A stone that is hard and heavy, yet being 67 put in the water does sent odoriferously, like a hat-full of Violet flowers. Hub166505640A stone that being held in a moist hand, gives a sent like a nasty-hog, and therefore is called the swine stone. Hub166505650A Mineral stone, that being rubbed upon a peece of bright Iron or steele, turns it suddenly into Copper. Hub166505660A good load-stone. Hub166505670Stones from the West Indies that are hard, yet being put in vinegar, stir and creep to and fro. Hub166505680Other sorts of stones that have the like property of stirring in vineger. Hub166505690A stone so hard, that it will scratch steel, yet being cast in the water does not sink. Hub166505700A peece of wood that is not heavy, yet sinks suddenly under water. Hub166505710A peece of wood from Nova Hispania, which being infused in fair water, renders it of two several colours; for if you fill a viol with that water, it will appear of a yellow colour one way, and of a deep blew another. Hub166505720A nother peece of wood of a lesse pleasant property, for a little scraped and warmed, smells like a stinking Jakes. Hub166505730A Mineral substance, that being put into a glasse of wine, makes infinite bubbles like atomes that rise in the middle of the wine, to the delighting of the beholders. 68 Hub166505740Another Mineral substance like silk, called Amiantus or Asbastos, it being put in the fire dos does not consume. Hub166505750A fruit that being stuck on a fork, and then held over a candle, makes a veay very pleasant fire work. Hub166505760But above all these stones and things for admiration, is a little stone like a gray coloured Agate, called by some Oculus Mundi; it being put in a glasse of clear water, becomes as clear as Crystal, and then taken out, in a little time returns to its first opacity. This Rarity was presented to the better completing of these curiosities by worthy Sr. Francis Peters. Hub166505770Besides these above mentioned things, there are 40. Hub166505780Chests or Boxes furnished with many hundreds of Rarities, as several Hub166505790shells, rare Hub166505800stones of the Sea, different Hub166505810Coralls, strange Hub166505820plants of the Sea, Hub166505830many strange bones and Hub166505840teeth of different Creatures, sundry Hub166505850egges of Birds and other Creatures; with hundreds of strange Hub166505860fruits, Hub166505870nutts, Hub166505880excrescences, Hub166505890marcasits, Hub166505900minerals, and Hub166505910stones of rare shapes, and such like things, all different; their names and natures being omitted to avoid prolixity: but if the owner of this collection of Rarities do sell them, he then God willing will write at large a more ample account of each thing in particular, for the satisfaction of that vertuous person that is pleased to buy them. 69 A Catalogue of the Names of those Great Princes and Persons of Quality, whose love of Virtue, Learning, and of the admirable Works of God in Natural Rarities has been shewed by their Bountiful adding of something to the encrease of the fore-mentioned Collection. CHARLES the First, King of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, &c. CHARLES the Second, King of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland. Ferdinand. the third, Emper. of Germany, &c. Elionora Empress, &c. Ferdinand the fourth, King of the Romans, &c. Elionora Queen-Dowager of Swede, &c. Christiana Queen of Swede, &c. John Philips Archbishop of Mentz, and Prince Elector, &c. Charles Lewis Palsgrave of the Rhein, and Prince Elector, &c. John George Prince Elector of Saxony, &c. Maximilianus Henry Archbishop of Collen, and Prince Elector, &c. Christian Lewis Duke of Lunemburg and Brunswick, &c. 70 Frederick Duke of Holstein, &c. William Landgrave of Hessen, Prince of Hersefield, &c. Gaston Duke of Orleans, &c. Philip Earl of Pembroke and Mongomry. Monsieur de Belieure Great President of France. The Honorable Sr. Thomas Row, His Majesties Embassador to the Great Magor in India, to the Emperour of the Turks at Constantinople, and to the Emperour of Germany, and also to divers other Kings, Princes and Free States. Sr. Thomas Wardner General for the Caribea Islands, and Governour of St. Christophers, and one of the Gentlemen of the Privy Chamber to King Charles the first. Sr. Richard Everard, one of the Burgesses of the Honorable house of Parliament, and a great Lover of ingenuity. Sr. Francis Peters, a great lover of Rarities. The Learned Petrus Carisius Resident for the King of Denmark, in the united Provinces. Frederick Shink Governour of Selle, and Privy Councellour to the Duke of Lunemburg, &c. Sr. Theodore de Mayerne. Physitian to Qu. Mother Henreitta Maria. 71 Willian Courtine Esq; a friend to Ingenuity. Mr. Povey Treasurer to his Royal Highnesse the Duke of Yorke. Dr. Saltzman Physitian, and Professor in the University of Strasburg. Dr. Fausius Physitian, and Professor in the University of Hidelberg. Dr. Moretus, Professor of Astronomy in the University of Prague. Dr. Cornelius van der Lingon Physitian in the University of Vtrecht. Dr. Housewetel Physitian to the King of Sweden, and Chief Physitian in Hamburg. Dr Bezler Chief Physitian in Nuramburg. Dr. Brown Physitian in Ausburg. Dr. Dewit Physitian in the Country of Lief-land. Dr. Eastgate Physitian in Poplar. Mr. Thornton Chaplain to the Right Honorable Earl of Bedford. Mr. Cornelius Middlegest, Clerk to the Company of the Royal Adventurers of England Trading into Africa. FINIS. 72 A Catalogue of the Rarities that are shown to the Curious, in the University-garden, at Leyden in Holland. Translated out of Latin. Hub166505920I An Eagle. Hub1665059302 A Walnut of Canada Hub1665059403 An Indian Bat. Hub1665059504 A Saw-fish. Hub1665059605 Two great Fish shels. Hub1665059706 The Rib of a Rhinoceros. Hub1665059807 The Skin of a Brasilian Hog. Hub1665059908 A Sort of White Corall. Hub1665060009Hub166506010 An Indian Boar, Hub166506020and the Jawbones of a Sea-Swine. Hub16650603010 The Cedar-fruit. Hub16650604011 A Bird of Brasile, like a Peacock, called Mitu, having on his fore-head a long white horn, and another white one on each wing. Hub16650605012 Hub166506060A White Bears Pizzle, Hub166506070feet, Hub166506080Bones, Hub166506090and Jaws. Hub16650610013 A fish called Blasaert. Hub16650611014 An Elks hoof. Hub16650612015 A gaming instrument of Straw. Hub16650613016 An Indian Almanack. Hub16650614017 A Remora. Hub16650615018 A Bird of Paradise. 73 Hub16650616019 A Hedgehog fish. Hub16650617020 A Hub166506180Toucan, Hub166506190and his Beak. Hub16650620021 A Brasilian Horses Skin. Hub16650621022 The Feather of a Phenix. Hub16650622023 An Indian Idol. Hub16650623024 A West Indian Spider. Hub16650624025 A Sea Bat. Hub16650625026 The Head of a Hippopotamus. Hub16650626027 The Teeth of a Hippopotamus. Hub16650627028 A Bow and Arrowes. Hub16650628029 An Indian Loaf. Hub16650629030 The Teeth of a fish called Pot. Hub16650630031 A large Mushroom. Hub16650631032 The fruit Annanas. Hub16650632033 A Fish called Gieb. Hub16650633034 The Horn of a Rhinoceros. Hub16650634035 A Hamack. Hub16650635036 A huge Serpents Skin. Hub16650636037 The Trunk of a wild Figtree of India. Hub16650637038 The Jangadas head of Brasile. Hub16650638039 The Head of a Fox. Hub16650639040 A Spanish Cane. Hub16650640041 A Sugar-Cane. Hub16650641042 Four Sorts of a Sea-plant. Hub16650642043 A Casawries foot. Hub16650643044 The Hog-fish. Hub16650644045 A Sea-Spider. Hub16650645046 A Creature bred out of a Hens egge. Hub16650646047 A Pellicans Bill. 74 Hub16650647048 A Crocodile. Hub16650648049 Hub166506490The Jaw Hub166506500and backbone of a Haëya. Hub16650651050 Statues from Zabba. Hub16650652051 The Stone Amiantas, which yeilds the Byssor. Hub16650653052 A Stags Head. Hub16650654053 The Skin of a Brasilian Roe-buck. Hub16650655054 The Skin of a Luyaërts. Hub16650656055 A Gourd of Brasile. Hub16650657056 The Passion-flower. Hub16650658057 The portraiture of a Goose found in an Oxe Liver. Hub16650659058 A wooden Trumpet of Tappa jet. Hub16650660059 A Mermaids Skin. Hub16650661060. The greater and lesser Tamandua Peba, that live upon Ants. Hub16650662061 An Indian Aramadilla. Hub16650663062 An Indian Lizard. Hub16650664063 A Sea Cat. Hub16650665064 Indian shells. Hub16650666065 A Vipers Tongue. Hub16650667066 Serpents Egges. Hub16650668067 The Hearing bone of an Elephant. Hub16650669068 A Rattle Snake. Hub16650670069 An Elks Skin. Hub16650671070 An Indian Woolf. Hub16650672071 A Dragon. Hub16650673072 A Sea Wolf. Hub16650674073 A Fish called Spilt. Hub16650675074 Estridges Egges. 75 Hub16650676075 Eagles Egges. Hub16650677076 Elephants Teeth. Hub16650678077 Crocodiles Egges. Hub16650679078 A Tigres Skin. Hub16650680079 The shrub called Cipo, creeping a great length. Hub16650681080 Cassia fistula, a great sort. Hub16650682081 Diverse sorts of Coloquintida-apples. Hub16650683082 Goats Horns. Hub16650684083 A Military instrument of Brasile. Hub16650685084 Japonian Hub166506860Trowzes, Hub166506870and shooes. Hub16650688085 A Japonian Commanders Coat. Hub16650689086 A Fish that spowts up water through two holes that come out of his Nose. Hub16650690087 The fruit Hub166506910Pindovas & Hub166506920Latrix. Hub16650693088 The Horns of the Goat in whose panch the Bezoar stone is generated. Hub16650694089 The Portraiture of the Country man of Prussia that swallowed a knife. Hub16650695090 A Sea plant. Hub16650696091 A Viper. Hub16650697092 A Scarlet grain, or the Berry that makes that Colour. Hub16650698093 A Dolphin. Hub16650699094 An India Tortoise. Hub16650700095 Tortoises Egges. Hub16650701096 A Gryffins foot. Hub16650702097 The Pizzle of a Whale. Hub16650703098 A Sea Lyon's Head. 76 Hub16650704099 A Barnacle. Hub166507050100 Feathered Grasse. Hub166507060101 A Beast called Jack hals, that provides meat for the Lyon. Hub166507070102 The Sceleton of a Man. Hub166507080103 A Russian Coat. Hub166507090104 A Parrat. Hub166507100105 A huge Skin of a wild Dog. Hub166507110106 An Indian Boast or Canow. Hub166507120107 A Coco-Nut. Hub166507130108 Leyden Coins. Hub166507140109 A Wolfs Head. Hub166507150110 Zambucaja, a great Nut. Hub166507160These things here mentioned are to shew the difference of both the Collections. Hub166507170FINIS.