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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. Giants Thigh-bone, more then four feet in Length, found in Syria. A 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. Hahut 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. A 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. A 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. An Ermine, which chuses rather to suffer 3 death, then to be defiled; as some Authors testifie. A 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. A 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. A 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. A Monstrous Calf, with two Heads, and two Tayles, with a perfect Body. A 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. A flying Squirrel, a little Beast of Virginia, that flyes from Tree to Tree, by extending of its skin on either side. A very perfect Leopards-skin, with Head, Teeth, Feet, Claws and Tail, a beautifull perfect Rarity. An Intire Cubbe of a Bear stuft and dryed in its proper skin. A Scelleton of a little Marmoset. A perfect Hedge-hog. Parts of Beasts. The Hornes of a Dog, of a Land near China. The Hornes of a Hare, which were the Prince Electors of Saxony. A Rhinoceros Horn, that was given me by his Highnesse the Duke of Holstein, 5 and a Claw and Scale of a Rhinoceros, which is esteemed the Unicorne. A very long winding Horn of a Ram from Germany. The Black Hornes of a Russia Ram, four growing together, two streight, and two crooked. A strange Horn of a Virginia Deere. A strange Horn of a German Rain Deere. Another sort of Rain Deeres Horn. A pair of little Antelopes Hornes. A 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. An Affrican Buffles Horn. A strange little Horn of a Deer. A large pair of Velvet Hornes of a Green-land Deere. 6 The 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. A Guinney Bats-skin larger then a great Coney-skin. A soft Ball of Hair bigger then a mans fist, found in the maw of a Calf in Holland. A Black Ball with a hard shell, found in the stomack of a wild Bull in Brasil. A little Orbicular Ball hard and light, found in the stomack of a strange Beast of India. A strange Tuske of a great Boar. Two different great Teeth of an Hippopotamus. A Cow-tail bushy and long. It is of one of the Cows that are worshipped by a people near the River Ganges. 7 An extraordinary great Foot of a White Bear. Besides the things above mentioned, there are in a Chest great variety of strange Bones, Teeth and Clawes of many different Creatures. III. BIRDS. A 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. A 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. A Bird called the Halcyon of East India. A 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. An 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 A Sea-Crow, it is as big as a Raven, it hath Feet like a Duck, and a Bill like a Crow. A 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. A Sea-Parret or Coppernose of Greenland; the Bill is of several colours, but the Feet of a scarlet, and like a Duck. A 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. A Sea-Pidgeon of Green-land, this bird is all white. A little Sea-Blackbird of Green-land, his wings are black and white, and his little Duck feet Red. Several 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. A rare Humming Bird of a lesser sort then ordinary; the Bird and Nest together not weighing 12. grains. Parts of BIRDS. The 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. An Indian Storkes head and bill. An Acora's head and bill of Brasil. A Pelican's head, bill and bag, 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. A marvelous great head and bill of a Bird yet unknown. 11 A 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. The head, legge and egge of an Estridge. The head and bill of a Stone-pecker of Germany. A legge and egge of an Emeu or Casawares. A legge of a Dodo, a great heavy bird that cannot fly; it is a Bird of the Mauricius Island. A strange Birds head and beak of Brasil, called Gibaruguacu, 11. inches long. A Shovelers head and beak. The head and beak of a true Griffin. It is a sort of Vulture, those with hinder parts like Lyons being mearly fabulous. A great and strange head and 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 The head of an Eagle. A great Albitrosses head and 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. Several sorts of Egges of Birds, Fishes and Serpents. A 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. A 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. Three Nests of Birds of East Indies, built one over another, the uppermost being in shape like the secret part of the Femal sex. A 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 A 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. A Shoveller or blew Sharke, it is a female one big and perfect, given by Doctor Eastgate, Physitian in Popler. A great male-Sharke, it is differing in form from the female very much. Another 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. A Spotted Dog-fish of the Coast of France. 14 A 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. A little prickled Dog-fish of the German Sea. A 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. A 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. A Sea-Leopard, so called from his spots, it is a species of Seale, and is also an Amphibium. A 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. A 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. A 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. A 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. A little Tortoise, called the Hawks-bill-Tortoise. 16 A very little Tortoise newly hatcht out of its egge: All Sea-Tortises are very good meat when they are in season. A male Conny-fish, armed with a hard shell, and two hornes or prickles before and two behind. A 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. A 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. A 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 A 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. A great Porcupine-fish of the West India. A 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. A 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. A 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. A 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. A Sturgeon of Holland. A Sturgeon of another species, such as is found in Hungary. A 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. A 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. An 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. A 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. A 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. A prickled Toad-fish of India, being a species of Globe-fish. A Sceleton of a great Toad-fish, it is like a Net, and a very singular Rarity. An extraordinary great headed Gournet, it is much different from the red Gournet. It is very great and an excellent tasted meat. An Angel-fish, so called for his beautifull colours, that it hath under water. This is of the West Indies. A 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. A lesse sort of Flying-fish, with its four wings extended. Another 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. A Trumpet fish of the Baltic-Sea, it is a kind of Sea-Serpent, and somewhat resembles the Needel-fish. A 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. A Wave-fish, so called for the manner of the growing of his scales. A 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 Another sort of Weapon-fish of the West Indies. A fish called the Sea-Cocke of the Spanish-Coast. A little fish of Guiney called the Cataphractus, which hath prickles on the fore part of the head that are venemous. A fish called the Sea-Scorpion, for his venemous prickles, and his body or skin is spotted with weite spots. A 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. A 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 A flat flowered Starre-fish of German-Sea. A 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. A very rare great Star-fish of India. This fish feeds one flat shell-fishes, and his mouth is in the center of his body. A large Comett with six points, a fish of India, it is a species of Star-fish. A little Crowned Star-fish of the Coast of Denmarke. A 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. A little round boded Star-fish, of the Coast of Holland. A little Star-fish of a different species from the forementioned. 23 A little Star-fish with twelve points, taken on the Coast of England, it is also called the Sun-fish for it's forme. A little sort of Star-fish of England, it is in forme like a Mullet or a Spurre-Rowell. Another Star-fish also of England different from all the others. A great Sea Crab of England. A 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. A 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. A great Crab, having its shell covered with Oysters that are grown to it, a Rarity worth considering. A 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. Another 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. A 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. A 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, A strange black Plaice from the Denmark Sea. A little fish called the Sea Owle for its form. It is a species of prickled Globe fish. A Hippocampus of the Mediterranean Sea, his belly is very venomous, 25 An Hippocampus of Brasil, of another sort; for he hath a little white horn under his head. 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. A 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. A 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. A 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. A 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. A Needle-fish, it is a small little long fish of the forme of a pack Needle. A Sea Louse: It is also an insect of the Sea in Greenland, and sticks to the Whale for food. Some 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. Some Sea Scorpions: They are also Insects of the Sea, and have six feet like a Scorpion, and a long taile. Some Mint fishes: They are little round Creatures, which when they be dry, are flat and marked like money. 27 A Sea Eye: It is a species of the Mint fish, round and clear like gelly, but venemous. A Sea insect called the Sea Shears: It hath many scales like a wood louse, two long hornes and a forked tayle. A water insect called Squilla Fluviatilis, or the Water Crickets. A little Sea Serpent something resembling a Conger, but the head is bigger for the proportion of its body. A 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. A little Burre-fish: It is green like a Burre that sticks to ones cloaths, and is one of the species of Icus Marinus. A little fish found in moorish grounds in Swedland, it hath a little prickle on the back that is venemous. A 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. A 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. A head of a Sea Sheep, of Caepe de Var in Africa; The fish is good meat, and the head very like a Sheeps head. A 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. A Sea Lyons-head, so called for its forme; It is a species of Dog-fish, but is very good meat especially the liver. A 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 A great Sea Catts-head of China: It is as big as a mans head. A 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. A head and 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. A 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. A 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. A strange fishes head, that did belong to the King of Bohemia. 30 An extraordinary great Tortises head of East India; it is called the green or logger-headed Tortoise for its bignesse. A Dagger fishes head; it is a species of Sea-Unicorne. The 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. The 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. A great Sea Dragons head; it is also called Aquila Marina; it is a species of a great Raja. A great broad head of a fish called by some Authors, the Sea-Hammer; it hath teeth like a Sharke. The jaws of a Sea Tyger, it hath cruel 31 sharp and long teeth. This fish is the most dangerous sort of Sharkes. The 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. A 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. The 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. A peece of the skin of a Whale, the pizzle eight or nine foot long, the drumpanne, a tooth, a fin of one of the Gills, some twelve foot long, and the bone that the Whale spouts the water out withal, and the neck bone. A tayl of a Stingray, it will saw like an Iron saw. 32 A very great Saw, or weapon of a Saw-fish, with the which he torments the Whale. An extraordinary great tooth of some fish. A round flat bone of a fish like a pancake. An extraordinary great Lobsters claw. A very large Blatta-Bizantia, which amongst other properties, hath a specifick vertue to cure the fits of the mother. Also 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. Amongst some of them a rare Mother of pearl, or pearl-oyster, with an oriental-pearl in the midst; a Carval fish shell of the Red Sea, a Nautilus of the East India, and two or three species of shells, that contrary to the general nature of all shells, grow towards the left hand, another shell that hath the center on the bottom, which other shells have on the top. 33 V. SERPENTS, &c. A 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. A long narrow Serpent, like a peece of narrow hair-coloured Satten, edged with white Satten. A beautifull Serpent called Ibaboca of Brasil, some ten or twelve foot long. A 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. A gray coloured Serpent, this Serpent being held before the light, the skin appears like Net-work. 34 A Gold coloured Serpent, for his skin is like cloth of Gold. Another Serpent of India like cloth of Silver, with black spotts. A black Serpent of Virginia, it is eaten for good meat. A 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. A very intire Viper of Italy. A Viper of Germany. An Adder of England. A Slow-Worme of Hessen. A little Serpent of Germany. Another coloured little Serpent. 35 A 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. An Armadillo of the West Indies, that is esteemed good meat there. Another sort of Armadillo of East India, that was presented King James for a great Rarity. A great Crocodile, given by worthy Mr. William Courtine Esq; a lover of vertue and Rarities. A little spotted Crocodile of Egypt. A very little Crocodile as it first came out of his egge, that is as big as a Goose egge. A very fine spotted Aligater of Brasil; it is a species of Crocodile. A 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 Another species of Lizzard of Numidia, or of Arabia; it is called by some the Land-Crocodile. An 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. A 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. Another sort of Lizzard of the West Indies, of a greenish colour. A 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. An 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. A 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. Another 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. A 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. A 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 Another 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. A coal black Toade. Froggs with two feet and a tayle. Frogs with foure feet and a tayl. A black land Tortaise full of little yellow specks, such as those of Germany or Greece. A little land Tortaise of Canada, called Night Tortaise, for his black ground and round yellow spots. Another species of Tortaise of Virginia. A 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. Divers 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. Two sorts of Scorpions. A 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. A rare great flie called by the Indians Nocoonaca, it is like wrought-velvet, and of several colours, and like Turky carpet-work. A great Scarabeus of the Amazones, very entire, and of beautifull colours. A 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 A black flie, called the Elephant flie for his form. A Buck flie of Germany called for his horns. A Leopard flie so called for the colours of the spots on his body. A Parret flie so called for his shape, and for his rare changeable colours. A Mole flie so called for his four feet, and for his silken hairy down. A very great and rich coloured Cantharides of the East Indies. An Emerauld flie so called for his rare glittering green colour. A Saphir flie so called for his bright shining blew colour. A dark green coloured flie called the Musk flie, for his odoriferous sent when he is a live. A 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. A little brown Scarabeus of East India. A Rare and great Dragon flie. A Rare Butter-flie of Germany. A Rare Butter-flie of Swedland, with several hundreds of other rare insects or flies, all different one from another either in shape or colours. A Golden spotted Indian Scarabeus. A Tortaise flie so called for his shape. 42 THE SECOND PART OF THE CATALOGUE. I. VEGETABLES. A Stick that is grown hollow like a Nett; it was Prince Maurice of Nassawes Rarity, that he brought out of Brasil. A Stick that is grown like a knott, and is a pipe to play on. A 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 A Stick grown in shape like a Crosse. A Stick in shape like St. Andrews Crosse. A Stick wrynkled in forme like a Serpent, Another peece of wood, or Root, grown in resemblance of a Serpent with a head at both ends. A Stick or peece of wood grown like the secret parts of a man. Another Stick or peece of wood grown of another rare forme. A Stick with two branches grown together, it was a Rarity of the Marquesse of Badon. Another Stick grown with craggy knobbs, very strange, like some excrescence. An excrescence of wood in shape of a great Pine-Apple, grown at the end of a little stick, like a stalk to it. A Natural Brush or Broom of India. 44 A flat excresence, or a strange bough of an Ash-tree. A bagge grown on a tree like woven-stuff, or as tiffeny, or cobweblawn, it grows on the top of a kind of Palme. A very strange broad leaf grown like a Tailours, or Bodise-makers work, appearing as it were stitched together. A Stick full of thorns like Cock spurs, therefore called the Cock-spur-tree. An excrescence or plant, like a Rubbing-brush. A blossome of a sugar-cane. A branch of a Palme-tree of the Jews-land. A great codde or blossome of another species of Palme of the West Indies. A great blossome of the Fox-tayle-plant of St. Thomas de Lovando in Affrica. A 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. A right Cedar fruit, with a peece of the branch of one of the Cedars of Mount Libanon. A 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. Several Eares of Corne, or Mace of Virginia, and other Countries, whereof one grain produces hundreds. An Eare of strange Corn in a Country in Affrica, whereof one grain produces more then a thousand. A 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. A 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. A 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. A Cocos nut something round, and representing a face. A long Cocos nut of another species, something like a fish in shape. An extraordinary great round Cocos nut, something rare for the bignesse. A 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. A Purse woven without a seam, made of the Cocos fruit. A 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. A 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. Another 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. A Ganobany fruit of Guiney. A 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 A Tomarus fruit of Guiney, it is also a species of Ganobany. A great Gourd in the form of a pear. A red Gourd of Guiney. Another prety shap't Gourd. A 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. A fruit called a May-cock of Virginia, the outward part of it is meat there, and not the inward. A long Cassia fruit of Egypt. A bunch of Ethiopian Pepper. A Prickle Apple of India. A stinging long Bean of Brasile. 49 A fruit or great Bean like the heart of a sheep. A very strange light fruit as yet unknown. A great and strange root of a Bambous Cane of East India. A silke cotton cod, such as in China they make their fine paper of. Another species of silke cotton cod, of the West India. A little branch of the cotton wool tree, with the codds full of wooll. A male Orenge of Syo. A female Orenge. A Lemon that represents both the secret parts of an Hermaphrodite. A little double Pine-Apple. A fruit of Madagascar, in shape of a double pear. 50 A strange gourd, or rather two grown into one. A 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. Two very perfect Mandrake roots, the one male and the 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. A Very fair and great purple Sea feather. A large gray coloured Sea feather. 51 A fine lemon coloured Sea fan. A deep yellow coloured Sea fan, grown to a great pibble-stone. An Iron coloured Sea fan, as stiff as Iron wire. A 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. A very great Trumpet plant, that grows in the bottom of the Indian Sea, and they make Trumpets of them in those parts. A purple Sea plant, given by Docter Towers of Hamburgh. A very rare Sea plant of two colours. A fine yellow Sea plant like a branch of small Birch. A Sea plant like heath. A Sea plant like the hair of ones beard. 52 A 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. A great Sea plant of a gridelin coulor, and in shape like the green broom plant. A sort of Sea-feather, in colour whitish & is called the Sea-Cabbage for the forme. A black Sea-feather that is very hard. A Sea plant called the Sea Cobweb for its likenesse to a Cobweb. A Sea plant crustated, and the root stone. An extraordinary great Spunge. A 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. A Pype Spunge with Oyster shells grown on its something like a hand. 53 A Sea plant grown on a stone, and another stone on the plant. A plant of the Sea with whitecorall grown on it like isicles. A Sea plant grown in a white Corall. A strange species of Corall called the transparent Corall, it is of the colour of glue, and is of Brasil. A branch of the Solid white Corall. A tree of Rough white porous Corall, it is perfect and rare. A bush or tree of perforated Corall, it is also white and very perfect. A 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. Another sort of white Corall grown on a plant of the Sea, different from the above metioned. 54 A branch of soft yellowish Corall, it is as light as a peece of cork. A very great and intier tree of hard yellow Corall, it is very strangely grown in an Oyster. A peece of black Corall which seems as if it were polished by art but is natural. A branch of black and white Corall, called the joynt Corall, for the form which is strange. A 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. A peece of red Corall and white grwon grown one upon another. A peece of red Corall grown on a shell. A perfect red Corall tree, the branches whereof are grown very intricately one into another; the tree weighs 13. ounces and a quarter. 55 A rare concretion of the Sea with several sorts of shells together. A concretion of Muscels together. A concretion of the Sea of stones and Iron together. A stone found in the bottom of the Sea in India, in the form of a vizard or humane-face. Some 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. Over and above these Sea plants above-mention'd, there are in several shallow Chests or Boxes, hundreds of other sorts, viz. of Coralls, Corallins, Alcyaniams, Concretions of things of a different nature, Stones 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. An Hungarian Rock of Vitriol, in the shape of a mans visage. A Rock of Copper and Christal together. A Rock of a kind of Emerauld and Amethist together. A Rock with Muscle shells. A Rock with whole flat shells, of a Mountain in Germany. A Rock of a quarry of Stone, near to the City of Frankeford. A Rock like a great piece of Wax or Rosin. A Rock of Mosse in Stone, once belonging to the Emperor Fardinando the third. 57 A Stone like the bottom shell of a great Oyster, but never was one. A 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. A great Lapis Ammonis that is coal-black. A yellow stone like wax, that has on it the representation of a Vine Leaf or Flower, and is of a glittering substance. A large piece of Ice glass, but it is something brittle, and is a kinde of gipsum. An Extraordinary Rare Calcedonian Stone in a frame, it is like a piece of Ice on the ground. 58 Natural Landskips in Stone. A great Triangular stone that hath a natural representation of trees and bushes. A great Jasper stone in a frame, that represents a moorish ground with rivers, trees, and bushes. A 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. Another stone picture in a frame; it represents an arme of the Sea, with Cottages, and a Church by the water side. A 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. Another very fine stone picture like a ruinous town on a hill. 59 Another stone of the same Nature also in a frame. A 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. A white stone that represents a tree, as if it was made by art with a pen. Another very rare white stone that doth represent two or three trees also, as if they were drawn with a pen. Another stone of a yellowish colour, that represents naturally many bushes and trees, as if they were drawn artificially. A 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. A stone picture of Mosaick work, representing a haven and ships at Sea under sayl. Condensements or things turned into stone or mettal. A 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. Another peece of worme-eaten wood petrified, yet reserving its colour. A 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. A peece of wood turned into stone of Logh-Earn in Ireland. A peece of wood turned into Iron ore, in Transilvania. A peece of Wood turned into Copper ore, in Germany. A stone that seems to have been severall lays of mud, and a horse-tayl plant buried in it, altogether petrified, a very strange Rarity. Another stone that hath been mud, and hath the impression of Polipotium, it is also very rare, 61 A Cake or Bisket in stone; it is a Rarity that was much esteemed by divers learned persons beyond Seas. A stone like a figge from a tree, or a figge turned into stone. A stone like a pear broken in the middle, and within it appears like the coar of a pear. An Oyster that is open, the upper shell and lower with the fish, all turned into stone. A Crab with the claws turned into stone. A great tooth of a land Creature turned into stone. A Rarity said to be part of the scull of a man or woman petrified. A Neck-bone of some Creature turned into stone. Two joynt-bones together of some Creatures leg or foot, turned into Iron ore, being as heavy as Iron, and appearing as it were rotten. The Impression of several fishes on black stones like slaets, of different forms and species. Divers other sorts of bones, shells of the Sea, and fresh waters, with snayls shells, fruits, Reeds, mosses and other things all turned into stone. A 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. A very rare Crystal, like a Town built on a hill, seeming to be hollow at the bottom, but is not. A peece of East India Crystal, it is white. A peece of West India Crystal, it is gray. A peece of European Crystal, that is very clear. A peece of yellow Crystal. A peece of Sea-green Crystal. A peece of blewish Crystal. A peece of blossome Crystal. A peece of wave Cyrstal. A peece of frisled Crystal, all 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. Several sorts of Iron ores. Several Lead ores. Several Tinne ores. Several Copper ores. 63 Several Silver ores. Several Gold ores. Besides other Minerals growing something rare, as Copper and Crystal together, &c. A Touch-stone, and a Metalline substance, on the other side like Copper. An Iron bullet in the midst of a stone. A 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. Several sorts of Talkes. Several sorts of Sulphurs. Several sorts of Earths out of mines. Several sorts of other Minerals, as Cinabaris, Antimonium, Saffor, Flores-Martis, Murienum, Marcasits, and divers other Minerals, and the like. V. Precious Stones. AMethist in the mine. Granats in the mine. 64 A sort of rich Diamond in the mine. Calcidonian with the mine. Chrysolits in the mind. Jasper from the mine. Lapis-Lazuli from the mine. Malaguita from the mine. Turkeise from the mine. Vermilions from the mine. Rubies from the mine. Emerauld from the mine. Hyacinths from the mine. A Bohemian Topaz on a rich pedestal of black Ebony. Another rare Topaz, that hath in it a representation of a Forrest or bushy-hills, very pleasant to behold. And divers other kinds of precious stones, and sorts of Pearls, different in their colours and shapes, with several Toad-stones, and Eagle stones, and such like. A very beautifull peece of Amber, that hath a representation of a rising vapour, or cloud in the midst of it, very rare. Another peece of Amber, with a Bee in it. A pretty peece of Amber, with a fly above and an Ant at the bottom. Divers 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. Several Lapides Ammonis, or stones like Serpents, but different from that above mentioned. A very large Glossopetra of India. A Glossopetra on his Rock, it is of Malta, and differs from those of other Countries. Several stones like unto Cloak-buttons. Several Lapides Lincai, they are like arrow heads. Several Lapides Judaici, they are like fruits. Stones like Caps. Stones like Hearts. Stones like Starres. Stones in form as we picture the Sun, with the rays or beams about it. Stones like little wheels of watches. Stones like Crosses, of Gallicia and other parts. Little stones like Pillars. Stones like Screws. Stones like Pease or Garavances. Stones like darts-heads, they are thought to be Thunder-boults, and in Scotland they call them Helf-heads. Stones square like Dice, but are a species of Marcasets. 66 Stones with well formed impression. Stones in shape like Tobaco-rowls. A stone like a Dogs tooth. A stone like a little ear. A stone like the little toe of ones left foot. A stone like the secret parts of a woman. Agate stones like the eyes of fishes. Several stones like unto Sugar-plums. Stones 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. A Hard white stone, that if one puts it in the fire, doth suddenly turn to dust. Stones that being put into a glasse of water, crack into small peeces so that one may hear them. A stone that smells only when it is blown on, and the harder one blowes, the stronger it sents. A stone that if one puts it on the fire gives an excellent smell, A stone that is hard and heavy, yet being 67 put in the water does sent odoriferously, like a hat-full of Violet flowers. A stone that being held in a moist hand, gives a sent like a nasty-hog, and therefore is called the swine stone. A Mineral stone, that being rubbed upon a peece of bright Iron or steele, turns it suddenly into Copper. A good load-stone. Stones from the West Indies that are hard, yet being put in vinegar, stir and creep to and fro. Other sorts of stones that have the like property of stirring in vineger. A stone so hard, that it will scratch steel, yet being cast in the water does not sink. A peece of wood that is not heavy, yet sinks suddenly under water. A 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. A nother peece of wood of a lesse pleasant property, for a little scraped and warmed, smells like a stinking Jakes. A 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 Another Mineral substance like silk, called Amiantus or Asbastos, it being put in the fire dos does not consume. A fruit that being stuck on a fork, and then held over a candle, makes a veay very pleasant fire work. But 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. Besides these above mentioned things, there are 40. Chests or Boxes furnished with many hundreds of Rarities, as several shells, rare stones of the Sea, different Coralls, strange plants of the Sea, many strange bones and teeth of different Creatures, sundry egges of Birds and other Creatures; with hundreds of strange fruits, nutts, excrescences, marcasits, minerals, and stones 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. I An Eagle. 2 A Walnut of Canada 3 An Indian Bat. 4 A Saw-fish. 5 Two great Fish shels. 6 The Rib of a Rhinoceros. 7 The Skin of a Brasilian Hog. 8 A Sort of White Corall. 9 An Indian Boar, and the Jawbones of a Sea-Swine. 10 The Cedar-fruit. 11 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. 12 A White Bears Pizzle, feet, Bones, and Jaws. 13 A fish called Blasaert. 14 An Elks hoof. 15 A gaming instrument of Straw. 16 An Indian Almanack. 17 A Remora. 18 A Bird of Paradise. 73 19 A Hedgehog fish. 20 A Toucan, and his Beak. 21 A Brasilian Horses Skin. 22 The Feather of a Phenix. 23 An Indian Idol. 24 A West Indian Spider. 25 A Sea Bat. 26 The Head of a Hippopotamus. 27 The Teeth of a Hippopotamus. 28 A Bow and Arrowes. 29 An Indian Loaf. 30 The Teeth of a fish called Pot. 31 A large Mushroom. 32 The fruit Annanas. 33 A Fish called Gieb. 34 The Horn of a Rhinoceros. 35 A Hamack. 36 A huge Serpents Skin. 37 The Trunk of a wild Figtree of India. 38 The Jangadas head of Brasile. 39 The Head of a Fox. 40 A Spanish Cane. 41 A Sugar-Cane. 42 Four Sorts of a Sea-plant. 43 A Casawries foot. 44 The Hog-fish. 45 A Sea-Spider. 46 A Creature bred out of a Hens egge. 47 A Pellicans Bill. 74 48 A Crocodile. 49 The Jaw and backbone of a Haëya. 50 Statues from Zabba. 51 The Stone Amiantas, which yeilds the Byssor. 52 A Stags Head. 53 The Skin of a Brasilian Roe-buck. 54 The Skin of a Luyaërts. 55 A Gourd of Brasile. 56 The Passion-flower. 57 The portraiture of a Goose found in an Oxe Liver. 58 A wooden Trumpet of Tappa jet. 59 A Mermaids Skin. 60. The greater and lesser Tamandua Peba, that live upon Ants. 61 An Indian Aramadilla. 62 An Indian Lizard. 63 A Sea Cat. 64 Indian shells. 65 A Vipers Tongue. 66 Serpents Egges. 67 The Hearing bone of an Elephant. 68 A Rattle Snake. 69 An Elks Skin. 70 An Indian Woolf. 71 A Dragon. 72 A Sea Wolf. 73 A Fish called Spilt. 74 Estridges Egges. 75 75 Eagles Egges. 76 Elephants Teeth. 77 Crocodiles Egges. 78 A Tigres Skin. 79 The shrub called Cipo, creeping a great length. 80 Cassia fistula, a great sort. 81 Diverse sorts of Coloquintida-apples. 82 Goats Horns. 83 A Military instrument of Brasile. 84 Japonian Trowzes, and shooes. 85 A Japonian Commanders Coat. 86 A Fish that spowts up water through two holes that come out of his Nose. 87 The fruit Pindovas & Latrix. 88 The Horns of the Goat in whose panch the Bezoar stone is generated. 89 The Portraiture of the Country man of Prussia that swallowed a knife. 90 A Sea plant. 91 A Viper. 92 A Scarlet grain, or the Berry that makes that Colour. 93 A Dolphin. 94 An India Tortoise. 95 Tortoises Egges. 96 A Gryffins foot. 97 The Pizzle of a Whale. 98 A Sea Lyon's Head. 76 99 A Barnacle. 100 Feathered Grasse. 101 A Beast called Jack hals, that provides meat for the Lyon. 102 The Sceleton of a Man. 103 A Russian Coat. 104 A Parrat. 105 A huge Skin of a wild Dog. 106 An Indian Boast or Canow. 107 A Coco-Nut. 108 Leyden Coins. 109 A Wolfs Head. 110 Zambucaja, a great Nut. These things here mentioned are to shew the difference of both the Collections. FINIS.