CATALOGUE
OF MANY
Natural RARITIES,
WITH
Great Industry, Cost, and thirty
Years travel in Foraign
Countries, London, Printed by Tho. Ratcliffe, for the
Author, 1664. 1
A CATALOGUE OF MANY Natural RARITIES.
I. Rarities HUMAN
Hub166400010A Giants Thigh-bone, more than 4. feet in Length;
found in Syria.
Hub166400020A Mummy, intire, and adorned with Hieroglyphicks,
that shew both the Antiquity, and eminent Nobility of the Person, whose
Corps 2 it is, taken out of one of the Egyptian
Pyramids.
II. Rarities of BEASTS and Parts of them.
Hub166400030A Hahut or Sloth, a
fourfooted Animal of America, in the Head and
Neck somewhat resembling a Man. It hath 3. Clawes one each foot, but the
Clawes are like a Boares tuskes, it is of Florida, and is the slowest of all Beasts, from whence it hath its
Name. It was given by Esq; Scott, an ingenious
Gentleman and a great traveller in America.
Hub166400040A Haget, which sleepes six months: it is a
creature of the Island Mayonto in the Lake Yondarro, two hundred miles from Hudsons river in America,
it hath a Costly furre, and is held for excellent meat in that
Country.
Hub166400050A Linx, it is a fierce creature with an excellent
furre, it is as big as an ordinary water Spaniel, and is a very quick
sighted creature, this beast leap't from a tree, and 3 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 Chirurgion of Popler.
Hub166400060An Ermine; which living had rather suffer death,
then to be defiled; as some Authers testifie.
Hub166400070A Monstrous Catt, with two bodies, one head, eight
leggs and two tayles, it was presented by worthy Mr. Thornton, Chaplaine to the right honorable the Earle of Bedford.
Hub166400080A Muske Ratt of Russia,
this Creature lives in fresh rivers and has a large long tayle and
duck-feet behinde, the better to swimme withall.
Parts of Beasts.
Hub166400090The Hornes of a Dog, of a Land near China.
Hub166400100The Hornes of a Hare, which were the Prince
Electors of Saxony.
Hub166400110A Rinoceros Horne, that was also given by 4 his Highnesse the Duke of Holstein.
Hub166400120The Hub166400130Claw and Hub166400140Scale of a Rinoceros, which is
esteemed the Unicorne.
Hub166400150A very long winding Horne of a Ram in Germany.
Hub166400160The Black hornes of a
Russia Ram, four growing
together; two streight, and two crooked.
Hub166400170A strange horne of a Virginia Deere.
Hub166400180A strange horne of a German Raine Deere.
Hub166400190Another sorte of Raine Deeres horne.
Hub166400200A pair of Antlopes hornes.
Hub166400210A Male and Female Barbarouses heads, either of
them are as big as a Swines head; it is a strange beast of the
Deserts of East India, it hath two tusks like
a Boare in the lower jaw, and two great tusks growing up on the
nose.
Hub166400220A Guinney Bats-skin, larger then a great Coney
skin.
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Hub166400230A soft Ball of haire, bigger then a mans fist, found in the maw of a
Calf in Holland.
Hub166400240A Black Ball, with a hard shell found in the stomack of a wilde Bull
in Brasil.
Hub166400250A little Orbicular Ball, hard and light, found
in the stomack of a strange beast of India.
Hub166400260A strange Tuske of a great Boar.
Hub166400270A great Tooth of an Hippopotamus.
Hub166400280Besides the things above mentioned, there are in a Hub166400290chest great
variety of strange Hub166400300bones, Hub166400310teeth, Hub166400320and clawes of many different
Creatures.
III. BIRDS.
Hub166400330A Phenicopter or Passoflamingo; given by the Ingenious Lover of Rarities Mr.
Povey Treasurer to his Highnesse the Duke of
Yorke. This bird is good meat and was much
esteemed by the delicate-mouthed Romans.
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Hub166400340 A Manucodiata, or Bird of Paradise with feet, for it hath great feet, to shew that it
perches on trees in a land as yet unknown: for they are never seen
alive; but are found always dead in the Moluccos
Islands, by reason of a continual wind that bloweth six months
one way & six months the other way and because of their sharp
head, little body, and a great feathered tayle, they are blown up so
high that they fall dead in another climat or Countrey.
Hub166400350 A Bird called the Alcion of East India.
Hub166400360 A Tropick-bird, this Bird is called so, because
that kind is seen near the Tropick or under the line: for when the
Mariners see them fly in the aire, they then can conjecture where about
they are. It is a Sea foule, of a gray colour, but the quills of the
feathers of hi swings are black, and the feathers white, and his bill
like a crow, but very red; and his feet like a duckes, but of two
colours.
Hub166400370 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 7 black to
ash-colour, and then to white, but the second year put on new ones of a
scarlet, which the longer the bird lives it growes more bright and
orient; It is found in Marahoon and Rio de Janeiro. Given me together with the full
Relation of it, by the learned Dr. Charlton one
of the Kings Majesties Physitians in ordinary, and excellently knowing
in Natural Rarities.
Hub166400380 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
shoote him, unlesse behinde against the growth of his thick down or
feathers, he is found threescore leagues from the Coast of Canada.
Hub166400390 A Sea-Crow, it is as big as a Raven, it hath feet
like a Duck and a bill like a Crow.
Hub166400400 A Sea-Parret, or Coppernose of Greene-land, the bill is
of several colours, but the feet of a scarlet, and like a Duck.
Hub166400410 A Great Bird of Guiney called the Guiney Wake, it resembles something a Pea-cocke
on the head, and hath a tuffe like the bristles 8
of a Hog on the top of his head, and hath a scent like musk, and as
ill-favored feet as the Peacock.
Hub166400420 Several Tominei or Humming
Birds of several countries, which live by the dew that they suck from
the flowers with their little long tongues.
Hub166400430 A very rare little Hub166400440Bird.
The Hub166400450Nest and the Bird altogether do not weigh
24. graines, it is a lesser species of humming
Bird then ordinary.
Hub166400470 The Head and Bill of the
Bird Ibis of Ægypt; it is the bird that taught the use of
Glysters; and in that Countrey there is a Law that condemnes any to
death, who kills one of them. For they devoure the Serpents in those
parts.
Hub166400500 An Indian Storkes head and bill.
Hub166400520 An Acoras Hub166400530head and Hub166400540bill of Brasil.
Hub166400550 A Pelicans Hub166400560head, Hub166400570bill and Hub166400580bag with the feet, to
prove that it is a water fowle: he does not make himself to bleed a
purpose for his young ones, but by accident, by carrying of 9 shellfishes in his thin bag makes it to bleed.
Hub166400600A Toucans head and bill of Peru; the head and bill of that bird are bigger then all his
body; it is a very rare one and did belong to the King of Spain.
Hub166400620 The Hub166400630Head Hub166400640and Legge of an Estridge.
The Hub166400660Head and Bill of a Stone-pecker, of Germany.
Hub166400680 A Legge of a Casoware or Emeu.
Hub166400690 A Legge of a Dodo a great heavy bird that cannot
fly; it is a bird of the Mauricius Islan.
Hub166400700 Several sorts of Egges, of bird, fishes and
serpents.
Hub166400710 The Nest of a Bird in Africa, built with a long Neck on a Tree, to
secure himself and youngones from Apes and Monkies.
Hub166400720 A Nest of a Bird made like the secret parts of a
man, by a little Bird in Brasil, to secure him
and his young ones from the Serpents.
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Hub166400730 A Nest of another Bird, made like another thing
and of other materials, it is also built on a tree, but of a Countrey
distant from Brasil above 3000 miles.
Hub166400740 An other Nest of a little Bird of India, but no body does know of what material it
is made, yet the great persons of that Country eates it for good
meat.
Hub166400750 A large bush of black feathers, that for the Rarity and beauty, doth
exceed that which the master of these Rarities did see, of the great
Turks or Sultans at Constantinople.
IV. FISHES.
Hub166400760A Sea Elephant or Rock
fishes head as big as a bushell. 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.
Hub166400770The Head of a Sea-sheep, of Caepe de Vert
11 in Africa, the fish is
good meat and the head very like a sheeps head.
Hub166400780A Sea-Lyons head, for its forme it is a species of
doggefish, but is very good meat especially the liver.
Hub166400790A 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 the shells to small peeces, it is a fish of America.
Hub166400800A great Sea-Catts head of China.
Hub166400810A great Sturgeons head of the German Ocean; The Sturgeon hath no
teeth, but receives his food by a round hole that is under his head, by
which he sucks in his food.
Hub166400820A Hub166400830Head Hub166400840and Tayle of a Dolphin, the Dolphins
tayle is different from all other fishes for it growes thwartwise the
better to rebound out of the water, as he does often against a
storme.
Hub166400860A great Sword-Fishes head and Sword of the black
Sea; it is one of the swiftest fishes that swims, and is excellent meat,
slic'd, 12 broyled, with oyle peper and salt and
the juice of a lemon on it.
Hub166400880The Scull of a Sea Morce of Greene land, this fish does sleep hanging on the Rocks by the
great teeth of the upper jaw and so is taken in Norway.
Hub166400890A strange fishes head that did belong to the King of Bohemia.
Hub166400900An Extraordinary great Tortises head of East India, it is called the Logger-headed Tortoise.
Hub166400910A fish called the Dagger fish for the forme of the
head, it is a species of Sea Unicorne.
Hub166400920The Head of a fish of Madagascar, this fish moves
the upper jaw, and not the lower.
Hub166400930The 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 small eyes and two long hornes like a beard,
and is a good tasted fish, and is called Siluti.
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Whole Fishes.
Hub166400940A Shoveller or Blew
Sharke, very perfect, given by Doctor Eastgate, Physician in Popler.
Hub166400950A Monk-fish Shark, the Sharke does ingender
like fourfooted creatures on land, and has ten or twelve at a
litter; When their young ones are in any danger they receive them in
their stomach and then disgorge them out again.
Hub166400960A Spotted Dog-fish of the Coast of France.
Hub166400970A Shovell Dogge fish, it is a species of Sharke, his eyes are seated afore distant one
from another: It was given by his highnesse the Duke of Holstein.
Hub166400980A great Frog fish of the Baltick Sea, this fish is as big as a great hog.
Hub166400990A 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 skinn is
hairy like down or silk, it is so soft and bright.
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Hub166401000A Sea Leopard, so called from his spots, it is
a species of Seale, and is also an Amphibium.
Hub166401010A little Sea Calfe or Seale which also participates of both Elements, and hath
foure feet but short, the two hinder broad, and no eares, the better
to endure long in the water.
Olaus the Great
writes, that this creature is the most unconstant to his female of
any; which is the cause often times of his death, for the fisher men
to take him counterfit the braying of a female, they are common in
the Finland Sea.
Hub166401020A Sea Wolf, it is a creature that hath the
strongest teeth and bites the hardest of any for his bignesse: for
his head being but off from his body living, a quarter or half an
hour after is able to bite ones hand off.
Hub166401030A Sea Ape, for his forme, and is 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
cracke, this fish is found in Brasil.
Hub166401040A little Tortoise, called the Hawks-bill-Tortoise.
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Hub166401050A Sea Tortoise hath 3. hearts, and it is of a
threefold nature, for it lives in the Sea like a fish, it layes
egges in the sand by the shoar side, to be hatcht by heat like a
fowle, and it crawles
one
on
4. fennes like feet, and hath flesh and blood like a 4.
footed beast.
Hub166401060A lesse Tortoise newly hatch't out of his
egge; all Sea Tortoises are good meate when
they are in season.
Hub166401070A great Sea Tortoise; 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 to carry on, but
to the bettering of the female in her laying of foure or five
hundred of egges at a time, in a hole she makes in the sands, then
covers them, and so they are afterwards hatched by the Sun.
Hub166401080A Male Conny fish, armed with a hard shell,
and two hornes, or prickles before and two behind.
Hub166401090A Triangular fish; it is a female Conny fish, larger then the male, the better
to contain her spawne, and is also armed with the like hard shell,
but not with prickles. 16 Nature forcing her to
follow the male for her defence.
Hub166401100A long narrow fish called the Sea Pelican: for
the forme of his head. Also it is called the Sea
Dart, for the forme of his body and tayle that is like the
head of a barbed arrow.
Hub166401110A great Sea Porcupine fish of the West India.
Hub166401120A Hedge-Hog-fish. It is a species of the Sea Porcupine, only the prickles are shorter.
It was given as an addition of these Rarities by his Highnesse the
Duke of Holstein.
Hub166401130A Sea Mouse, so called for the forme of his
head and beard; this fish contrary to the nature of other fishes
shrieks in the water and out of the water like a mouse, but for his
finnes he is something like a Serpent in colour, and is about a foot
long, but is very good meat.
Hub166401140A 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, 17 different from the Nature of other Soales that are
brown of one side and white on the other.
Hub166401150A Saw fish, Vulgarly called the Sword-fish,
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, her
body being so fat and heavy, and her skin so thin.
Hub166401160A little prickled Dog fish of the German Sea.
Hub166401170A Sturgeon of Holland.
Hub166401180A Sturgeon of an other species, such as is
found in Italy.
Hub166401190A Parret, or Angrey
fish of Brasile, it is a species of
Globe-fish, which cannot swim in a storme, and therefore fills his
maw with stones, to lye steady in the bottom of the water.
Hub166401200A Sucking fish of Ice
land, it is a species of Lump-fish,
that cannot swim likewise in a storme, but sticks to the Rocks with
a 18 seeming mouth that is under the fore part
of his belly.
Hub166401210A Poyson fish of East
India, so venomous that thirteen men in a ship dyed by
eating of one of them, he is called by some the Sea Hare; he is for his forme something long and foure
square and is a species of Conny-fish.
Hub166401220A Hermit fish of the bottome of the Sea, it is
a creature that liveth in the shell of an other fish, the fishermen
makes use of them to baite other fishes withal.
Hub166401230A Souldier fish, it is a creature that liveth
on Mountains or highland in the Caribea
Islands under the rootes 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.
Hub166401240A Woodcock fish of the Baltic Sea, his head is like a long bill full of sharp
teeth, and for the length it is counted a Sea
Serpent.
Hub166401250A Prickled Toad fish of India, being a species of Globe
fish.
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Hub166401260A 4. Prickled fish of East India. All other
fishes, though greater, are afraid of him, for his prickles that he
hath before and behind; therefore they will not come near him, and
he is alwayes taken alone.
Hub166401270An Angel fish, so called for his beautifull
colours, that he hath under water, this is of the West Indias.
Hub166401280A great flying-fish or Sea
Swallow, that flyes sometimes aboard the ships, and
thinking to escape a fish that is his adversary, becomes a good
friend to man, by being good meat, when well dress'd.
Hub166401290A Trumpet fish of the Baltic Sea, it is a kind
of Sea Serpent, and somewhat resembleth the
Needel fish.
Hub166401300A Smith fish, it is likewise called S. 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.
Hub166401310A Wave fish so called for the manner of the
growing of his scales.
Hub166401320AWeapon fish of Bermudos, this fish hath a 20 long
sharp bone on his back to defend himself, which he raiseth, or
letteth fall in a hollow case, when he will.
Hub166401330An other sort of Weapon fish of the West Indias.
Hub166401340A fish called the Sea cocke of the Spanish coasts.
Hub166401350A little fish of Guiney called the Cataphractus, that hath two prickles before,
that are venemous.
Hub166401360A Sun fish, for sleeping in the Sun it is also
called the Moon-fish, for shining in the
night to the amazement of Seamen that sees so great a light; this
fish is of a strange forme, for tis like a head onely, but hath a
very little mouth for so great a body.
Hub166401370A great Netted Stare fish, 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
Governour of St. Christophers Island.
Hub166401380A very rare great Starre fish of India; this fish feedes on flat shell fishes,
and his mouth is in the Center of his body.
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Hub166401390A large Comett, or Sixfingers fish of India, it is a
species of Starre fish.
Hub166401400A little Crowned Starre fish of the Coast of
Denmarke.
Hub166401410A little round boded Starre fish with long
narrow feet or poynts.
Hub166401420A Flat flowered Starre fish of the German Sea.
Hub166401430A five pointed little Starre
fish of the Coast of Holland.
Hub166401440A prickled Crab called the Sea Spyder, which ha's little clawes on his feet, like
birds clawes; It was given to the augmenting of these Rarities, by
the Learned Petrus Caresius, the King of Denmark's Resident in the united Provinces.
Hub166401450A King Crab of the Moluccos Island this creature has the eyes on his back,
and is also called a Sea Spyder, for the
resemblance.
Hub166401460A great Sea Crab.
Hub166401470A Witland Crab; it is like a deaths head, and
lives in the ground like Connies in a 22
burrow, in some Islands of the West
Indias.
Hub166401480An other species of King Crab or Sea Spyder, but as light as a sheet of Paper,
yet it is as big as an ordinary face.
Hub166401490An Icus Marinus, that is called the Sea Orange.
Hub166401500A Torpedo or Benumming fish, for it taketh
away the sense of feeling from the fisher mans hands when he is in
his Net. He is of Africa, and did belong to
the King of France.
Hub166401510A very perfect great and true Remora of India, whose property is to hinder or stay
great ships as they swim; it hath on his head many open spaces out
of which proceeds a glutinous humour, with the which he sticks so
fast to any smooth thing that a man cannot well losen him.
Hub166401520A strange black Plaice, from the Sea of Denmark.
Hub166401530A little prickled Globe Fish, also called the
Sea Owle, for his forme.
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Hub166401540An Hippocampus of the Mediterranean Sea; his
belly is said to be very venemous.
Hub166401550An Hippocampus of Brasil, of an other sort: for he has a little white horne
under his head.
Hub166401560A little Spouting or Foutain
fish; for it sticks to the Rocks, and when one will take
him, he spouts the water in ones face.
Hub166401570A strange sort of Oyster, that is called the
Sentry fish for his nature, for he is
fastened to the Rocks and most commonly stands open to catch fish;
for as the fish thinks to eat him, he takes his enemy prisoner and
then entertaines him as good meat.
Hub166401580A Navell fish, a round slymy mishapen thing,
that sticks to the Rocks, and contracts it self in the shape of a
Navell, and is a venemous creature.
Hub166401590A true Purple-fish, that sticks to the Rocks
and 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 India: but
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I wondred at the variety of colours wherewith it stained my
hand.
For, first it was green, then blew, afterwards, purple,
and lastly it became a beautifull Red; and taking my handkerchief to
my hands it died the same likewise, and the colours remaine in the
linnen not to be washed out.
Hub166401600A Limpet, which sticks also to the rocks, and
is an Insect of the Sea, having a flat shell, but the creature
within is something like a snaile, with little hornes and is very
good meat.
Hub166401610A Needle-fish, it is a small little long fish
of the forme
of of
of
a needle.
Hub166401620A Sea Louse, is also an insect of the Sea in
Greenland, and sticks to the Whale, for food.
Hub166401630Some Sea-fleas, when the sea is at a low Ebbe,
they are found by hundreds under some Rocks, and after stormes, on
the sands by the shore side.
Hub166401640Some Sea-Scorpions; they are insects of the
Sea and have six feet like a Scorpion, and a long tayle.
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Hub166401650Some Mint fishes, they are little round
creatures, but when they are dry they are flat and mark'd like
money.
Hub166401660A Sea Eye, it is a species of the Mint fish,
round and clear like Gelley, but venemous.
Hub166401670A Paraquito fish of the Adriatic Sea; it is a little green fish like a Paraquito,
but hath small teeth afore like unto a Mouses.
Hub166401680A little Burre-fish, it is green and like a
burre that sticks to ones cloathes, it is one of the species of Icus Marinus.
Hub166401690A little fish found in moarish grounds in Swedland, it hath a little prickle on the back that is
venemous.
Hub166401700A little Sea Serpent, something resembling a
Conger, but the head is bigger, for the
proportion of its body.
Hub166401710A Sea Insect called the Sea-chairs; it hath many scales like a wood louse, two
long hornes, and a forked tayle.
Hub166401720A Water Insect called squilla Fluviatilis, or the water Cricket.
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Hub166401730Also many hundred of very rare and beautifull fish shells all
different in their formes, works, or colours, and other things
belonging to Animals, in Chests and Boxes.
Hub166401740Hub166401750Amongst some of them a very rare Mother of Pearle, or the Pearle
oyster, with an oriential Pearle in the midst; Hub166401760and a Carvall fish
shell of the Red Sea, Hub166401770and two or three species of shells that grow
contrary to the nature of all shells in general: for they grow
towards the left hand. Hub166401780Another sort called the Antipathio shell for the Center is on the botttome, Hub166401790and
the other shells in generall has the Center on the top.
Parts of FISHES.
Hub166401800 A Ribb of a Triton or Mereman, taken by Captain Finny,
upon the shouts of Brasil, five hundred
Leagues from the Maine; given by Doctor Esgate Physitian.;
Hub166401810The Vein of the tongue of that Whale that was
taken up at Greenwich, a little before Cromwel's death, it is like a vein stocke that
is withered.
Hub166401815Hub166401820A peece of the Skin of the Whale; Hub166401821the 27 pizzle
eight or nine foot long, Hub166401822the Drumpanne, Hub166401823a tooth, Hub166401824a finne of one of
the Gills, some twelve foot long, and Hub166401826the bone that the Whale spouts
the water out withall and Hub166401827a neck bone.
Hub166401830The Tayle of a Sea Cat, or stingray, it will
saw like an iron saw.
Hub166401840A very great Saw, or Weapon of a Saw-fish.
Hub166401850A Round flat bone of a fish like a pancake.
Hub166401860An Extraordinary great Lobsters Claw.
Hub166401870A Great Jawe of a large 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 India.
V. SERPENTS, &c.
Hub166401880A Serpent above twenty foot long of the East India, it hath in the upper chap four rowes
of teeth; this Serpent when he 28 was living,
could swallow men or beasts.
Hub166401890A long Narrow Serpent like a peece of narrow
hair-coloured Satten edged with white Satten.
Hub166401900A Beautifull Serpent called Ibaboca of Brasil, some ten or twelve
foot long.
Hub166401910A 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.
Hub166401920A Gray Coloured Serpent, this Serpent being held
before the light, the skin appears like Net-work.
Hub166401930A Gold Coloured Serpent, for this Serpent skin is
like cloth of Gold.
Hub166401940An other Serpent of India
like Cloth of Silver, with black spotts.
Hub166401950A Black Serpent of Virginia, it is eaten for good meat.
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Hub166401960A Boicininga, or Rattle
Snake; Nature has formed him with a rattle at his tayle that
men might avoyd the danger of his biting; for being once bitten by him,
a Man dyes in halfe an houre unlesse he hath of the rattle snake roote,
for to apply alittle of it to the offended place, and by eating a little
of it also; therefore the Savages of Virginia
seldom travel without it.
Hub166401970A Viper of Italy.
Hub166401980A Viper of Germany.
Hub166401990An Adder of England.
Hub166402000A little Serpent of Germany.
Hub166402010A Slow-Worme of Hessen.
Hub166402020An other coloured little Serpent.
Hub166402030An Aspe.
Hub166402040A 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.
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Hub166402050An Armadillo of the West
India that is esteemed good meat there.
Hub166402060An other sort of Armadillo of the East India that was presented King James for a Rarety.
Hub166402070A great Crocodile, given by Noble Squire Courtine, a lover of vertue and ingenuity.
Hub166402080A little Spotted Crocidile of Egypt.
Hub166402090A very little Crocodile, as it first came out of
his egge.
Hub166402100A little Aligater of Brasil, it is a species of Crocodile.
Hub166402110A great Lizzard of Africa,
that is said to be so loving to Man, that if the Man be a sleep and in
danger of some other creature, he will then awake him.
Hub166402120A great Spotted Lizard skin, that his Highnesse
the Landgrave of Hessen
gave as a Rarity.
Hub166402130An other species of Lizard of Numidia, or of Arabia, it is called by
some the land Crocodile.
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Hub166402140A Bugelugey, it is a creature of some parts of Africa, a kind of Lizard, that hath great scales
like a fish.
Hub166402150A Camaleon of Barbary; it
is said to live only by the air, but it is not so, for he lives by flyes
and, yet he can live long without food, his skin being so nervous, and
very little porous.
Hub166402160A True Salamander, is said to live in the fire, as
has been too often reported, but will live longer in the fire then any
living creature of his bignesse, for the matter or moisture that
proceeds from him condenses and so smothereth the fire, as milk or glew
doth.
Hub166402170A Guaena of America, it is
a sort of Lizard as big as a good Rabett, but in those parts held for
better meat; it lives by the fruits of trees, and is so harmelesse that
one may take him by the tayle as he is on a tree
Hub166402180A Black land Tortoise full of little yellow
specks, such as those in Germany or Greece.
Hub166402190Hub166402200A little land Tortoise of Canada Hub166402210with many other different land Tortoises out of the 32 East and West Indies;
they are all generally good meat.
Hub166402220A fair Sincus Terrestris of Egypt, it hath four feet like a Lizard, but resembles a fish,
though it be a land creature; it is said that one part of his body is
cooling; but the other part is
ptovocative
provocative
to man or woman.
Hub166402230A Coale Black Toade.
Hub166402240Frogs with two feet and a tayle.
Hub166402250Frogs with foure feet and a tayle.
Hub166402260Two sortes of Scorpions.
VI. Insects or FLIES.
Hub166402270A Flie bigger then a Sparrow, called the bill-Scarabeus.
Hub166402280A rare great Flie called the Salamander Flie for
his colours, and that it is like to wrought velvet.
Hub166402290A great Scarabeus of the Amazones, very entire, and of beautifull colours.
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Hub166402300A Lanterne Flie of Peru;
two or three of these Flies fastened to a stick, give light to those
that travel in the Countrey.
Hub166402310A Black Elephant Flie, for his forme.
Hub166402320A Buck Flie, for his hornes.
Hub166402330A Leopard Flie, for the colours of his spots on
his body.
Hub166402340A Parret-Flie, for his shape and for his rare
changeable colours.
Hub166402350A Mole Flie, for his feet and for his silken hairy
downe.
Hub166402360A Rich Coloured great Cantharides of the East Indies.
Hub166402370An Emerauld Flie so called for his rare glittering
green colour.
Hub166402380A Saphir Flie so called for his bright shining
blew colour.
Hub166402390A Musk Flie, it is called so for his Odoriferous
sent when he is alive.
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Hub166402400A West India Cacaorche. An Insect some thing
broad, but can insinuate himself in the least chinck of a chest to the
great offence of men by spoiling of leather or woolen.
Hub166402410A little broune Scarabeus of East Indies.
Hub166402420A Rare Dragon-Flie.
Hub166402430A Rare Butter-Flie of Germany.
Hub166402440Hub166402450A Rare Butter-Flie of Swedland, with Hub166402460several hundred of other rare insects and
Flies, all different one from another, either in shape, or colours.
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THE SECOND PART OF THE CATALOGUE
I. VEGETABLES.
Hub166402470A Sticke that is grown hollow like a nett; it was
Prince Maurice of Nassaw's
Rarity, that he brought out of Brasil.
Hub166402480A Stick that is grown like a knott, and is a pipe
to play on.
Hub166402490A Stick like a Crosse.
Hub166402500A Stick like St. Andrew's
Crosse.
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Hub166402510A Stick like a Serpent.
Hub166402520A Stick or peice of wood grown like the secret parts of a man.
Hub166402530An other Stick or peece of wood grown as the above
mentioned.
Hub166402540A Stick with two branches grown together; it was a
Rarity of the Marquesse of Badon.
Hub166402550A Natural Brush or broom of India.
Hub166402560A Bagge grown on a tree like woven stuffe, as
tiffeny or Cobweblawn of India.
Hub166402570A Blossome of a Suggar
Cane.
Hub166402580A Branch of a Palme tree of the Jews land.
Hub166402590A great Codde or Blossome or another species of
Palme of the West India.
Hub166402600A Right Cedar fruit, with a peece of the branch of
one of the Cedars of Mount Libanon.
Hub166402610An Eare of Corne or Mace of
Virginia, 37 whereof
one graine produces hundreds.
Hub166402620An Eare of a strange Corne in a Countrey in Affrica, whereof one grain produces more then a
thousand.
Hub166402630A great Blossome of the Fox-tayle-plant of St. Thomas de Lovando in Affrica.
Hub166402640A Limon, that represents both the secret parts of
an Hermapherodite.
Hub166402650A Rose of Jerico, that is
an hundred years old, and yet can open so wide, that it cannot well be
put in ones hat, and the next day will be closed lesse then ones
fist.
Hub166402660An Excrescence, or plant like a Rubbing brush.
Hub166402670A Fruit of Brasil, that
growes with a cover; it is called the Apes Nutt,
because when the fruit is ripe, the Apes open it, to eate the many
kernells that are in it; the fruit is thick, hard and very heavy and
growes naturally with a cover, therefore it is also called the cover'd fruit.
Hub166402680A great Maraca, a fruit of India, that 38 hath an hard shell like a
Nutt, but as big as a mans head, it is like the scull of a man with the
Sutures.
Hub166402690An other sort of Maraca, that growes on a high
tree, but one cannot well climb on it, because the branches are so small
and so full of prickles, but that does not hinder the ratts from being
lickorish of them: for if that fruit or Nut falls they make a hole to
eat what is in it, and the Savages make a strong
drink of the sap within, but of the shells they make their necessary
household stuffe, as Cuppes, Spoones, Dishes and the like.
Hub166402700A Ganobany fruit of Guiney.
Hub166402710A Bacbob or great Ganobany
given by the King of Sweds Physician; this fruit
is great and heavy, and on the out side it is like velvet.
Hub166402720A great Gourd in the forme of a Pear.
Hub166402730A Red Gourd of Guiney.
Hub166402740An other pretty shap't Gourd.
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Hub166402750A Tomarus fruit of BinneyGuiney
Hub166402760A little double Pine-apple.
Hub166402770A Cocos fruit whole; the fruit and tree, afford
many necessary things for the benefit of man, as Milke, Wine, Water,
Oyle, Vineger, Needles, Thread, Boards, Cordage, sayles, and other
things.
Hub166402780A Cocos Nut something round, representing a
face.
Hub166402790A long Cocos Nut something like a Fish in
shape.
Hub166402800A Prickle-Apple of India.
Hub166402810A large Carab; it is a fruit that growes on a high
tree in the Caribeis; the shell of it burnt,
casts a sent like perfume, and the inward part tasts like dry spic'd
bread.
Hub166402820A Loafe of Bread made of
the Cassado-Roote; the sap or moisture of that
root is deadly poyson, yet it makes god bread, for the fire evaporates
the malignant nature of it.
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Hub166402830A Silke Cotton Codd, such as in China, they make their fine paper of it.
Hub166402840An other Species of Cotton in a Codd of the West
Indies.
Hub166402850A Stinging long Beane of
Brasile.
Hub166402860A Fruit or great Beane like
the heart of a Sheepe.
Hub166402870A long Cassia fruit of Egypt.
Hub166402880A Fruit called the May-cock; it is common in Virginia, and the
outward part of it is meat there, and not the inward.
Hub166402890A Bunch of Ethiopian Pepper.
Hub166402900A square thing made of the Cocos Barke, to cover
the secret parts of Men or Women, and it is also in that Countrey their
ready mony.
Hub166402910A Purse woven without a seame of the Cocos fruit.
Hub166402920A Peece of Wood that turneth water into two
colours at once.
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Hub166402930A peece of Wood, and part stone together; His
Majesty King Charles the first did try it, and gave it to the owner of these
Rarities.
Hub166402940Two very perfect Mandrakes, Hub166402943the one Male, and Hub166402946the 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.
Hub166402950A Fruit called Genipapa, it is of the forme of a
Limon, but of strange operation, for the juice is as cleere as water;
but a little of it put on ones hand dyeth it of a purple colour; but to
redouble it with more of the same liquour, it 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 dayes; and if the hogs eat of it, it doth not endanger
them, but makes their fat of a purple colour.
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II. Sea PLANTS, &c.
Hub166402960A Very fair purple Sea Feather.
Hub166402970A large gray coloured Sea
Feather.
Hub166402980A fine Limon coloured Sea Fann.
Hub166402990A Deep yellow colour'd Sea
Fann grown to a great pibble-stone.
Hub166403000An Iron-coloured Sea Fann, as stiffe as Iron
wire.
Hub166403010A Plant or little Tree of Black Horne; for the
branches being burnt, they stink and wrinkle like horne; and being put
in warm water become very soft; but the root or lower part is hard white
stone.
Hub166403020A very great Trumpet plant, that growes in the
bottom of the Indian Sea, and they make trumpets
of it in those parts.
Hub166403030A Purple Sea Plant, given by Dr. Towers of Hamburgh.
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Hub166403040A very rare Sea Plant of two colours.
Hub166403050A fine Yellow Sea Plant like a branch of small
Birch.
Hub166403060A Plant of the Sea, a Rock,
and a Shell fastned or grown all together.
Hub166403070A Sea Plant like Heath.
Hub166403080A Sea Plant like the haire of ones beard.
Hub166403090A Black Spunge, grown in branches like a Tree on a
Rock; it is a very fine Rarity.
Hub166403100A very rare Sea Plant or Shrubb, with shell
fishes, growne, like fruits on a tree; it is esteemed rare and
strange.
Hub166403110A Sea Plant grown on a white Corall.
Hub166403120A Strange Sea Plant call'd the transparent Corall; it is of the Colour of Glue.
Hub166403130A Branch of the Solid white Corall.
Hub166403140A Tree of Rough white Corall, also called the bush corall, it is perfect and rare.
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Hub166403150A White Corall with little double shell fishes,
that grew in each part of it; it is a Rarity that was much esteemed of
the Emperour in his room of Rarities.
Hub166403160A red Corall on the Rock as it did grow.
Hub166403170A white Corall grown on a Plant.
Hub166403180A perfect white Corall called Harts horne Corall.
Hub166403190A branch of soft Yellowish Corall.
Hub166403200A branch of black and white
Corall, called Joynt Corall.
Hub166403210A peece of Red Corall grown on a shell
together.
Hub166403220A peece of Red and white Corall grown
together.
Hub166403230A great round Sea Stone like a great moushroome or
toadestoole.
Hub166403240A rare Concretion of the Sea with several sorts of
shells together.
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Hub166403250A Concretion of Mussells
together.
Hub166403260A Concretion of Stones and
Iron together.
Hub166403270A Stone found in the bottome of the Sea in the
forme of an humane face.
Hub166403280Some of the right Alcionum of the red Sea, by
which the water of the Sea appears red in the shallow parts of it where
that is found.
Hub166403290Over and above these things mentioned, there are in several Hub166403300chests and
boxes, many hundreds of Hub166403310stones of the Sea, Hub166403320plants of the Sea, with
Hub166403330Corall and Hub166403340Coralins, and Hub166403350Alcionums, Hub166403360Concretions of things of a different
nature, and such like, which are omitted for brevity sake: but upon
farther encouragement may be declar'd in time.
III. MINERALS, Stones of strange shape, and things
turned into Stones, with Chrystals and precious Stones.
Hub166403370An Hungarian Rock of vitriol, in the shape of a mans visage.
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Hub166403380A Rock of Copper and Crystall together.
Hub166403390A Rock of a kinde of Emerauld and Amethist together.
Hub166403400A Rock glittering like Silver.
Hub166403410A Rock of Portugal of a
strange forme
Hub166403420A Rock with Muscle
shells.
Hub166403430A Rock like a bunch of grapes of the Cardinal Richelieu.
Hub166403440A Rock with whole flat shells of a Mountain in Germany.
Hub166403450A Rock of a Quarry of stone near to the City of Franck-ford.
Hub166403460A Rock like a great peece of wax, or rosin.
Hub166403470A Rock of Mosse in stone
belonging to the Emperour Ferdinand the
third.
Hub166403480A Cake in stone, a Rarity that was esteemed very
much by divers persons beyond Seas.
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Hub166403490A Stone, like the bottom shell of a great Oyster,
but never was one.
Hub166403500A peece of old wood turned to stone, yet reserving
the colour.
Hub166403510A peece of old worme-eaten barke of a tree in Stone.
Hub166403520A peece of old Birch-wood, that appears to have
been chapt off at both ends, turned into stone, yet reserves the true
resemblance and colour of the perfect wood.
Hub166403530A 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, that a Cardinal had in Rome, for a great Rarity.
Hub166403540A Right Eagle Stone, it is true Calcedonyan stone, but like a lump of Gumme Tragacant; it was the Kings of Marrocco, it is a precious stone that is very Rare: for that King
permits none in his countrey to have any of them but himself, as a token
of his royalty, but yet gives them to eminent persons, as a mark of his
great favour.
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Hub166403550A great Lapis Ammonis, that did belong to the King
of France.
Hub166403560An other great Lapis Ammonis, coale black.
Hub166403570A Yellow stone like Wax,
that has on it the representation of a vine leaf or flower; it is of a
glittering substance.
Hub166403580A great Triangular Stone, that hath a
representation of trees and bushes.
Hub166403590A great Jasper stone in a frame, it doth represent
a moorish ground with rivers, trees and bushes.
Hub166403600An Extraordinary rare Calcedonian stone in a
frame, it is like a peece of Ice on the ground.
Hub166403610A Marble stone of the river Arno in a frame, the Emperour Ferdinand
the third confessed he never saw a rarer: 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.
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Hub166403620Another stone picture like an arme of the Sea, with Cottages and a Church
by the waterside.
Hub166403630A very rare Stone picture representing clowdy skyes, and an excellent
rocky Cave Given by the Earl of Pembrook.
Hub166403640An other very fine stone picture like a ruinous town on a hill.
Hub166403650An other stone of the same Nature in a frame.
Hub166403660A 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.
Hub166403670A white stone that does represent a tree, as if it was made by art with a
pen.
Hub166403680Another very rare white Stone that does represent two or three trees also
as if they were drawn with a pen.
Hub166403690A large peece of Ice glasse, but it is something
brittle, and is a kinde of Gipsum.
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Hub166403700A peece of Crystal, like a town built on a hill,
it is much esteemed by ingenious spirits.
Hub166403710Another peece of Crystal very clear and rare, that
hath in the midst a representation of a mossey figure or statiew, with
the liknesse of 2 hornes on the head; all this
representatiou
representation
is but one, yet it appears to be 3 or 4 by the reflections of
the same natural Crystal.
Hub166403720A peece of European Crystal, very clear.
Hub166403730A peece of East India Crystal.
Hub166403740A peece of West India Crystal.
Hub166403750A peece of Yellow Crystal.
Hub166403760A peece of Sea-green Crystal.
Hub166403770A peece of blewish Crystal.
Hub166403780A peece of bush Crystal.
Hub166403790A peece of wave Crystal.
Hub166403800A peece of frisled Crystal.
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Hub166403810And divers other sorts or species of Chrystals,
that are not nomianted for brevity sake.
IV. METTALS, MINERALS, &C.
Hub166403820Several sorts of Iron Ore.
Hub166403830Several Lead Ores.
Hub166403840Several Tinne Ores.
Hub166403850Several Copper Ores.
Hub166403860Several Silver Ores.
Hub166403870Several Gold Ores.
Hub166403880Besides Hub166403890Mettals, Hub166403900and Minerals growing something rare, as Lead and Crystal together.
Hub166403910Tinne and Crystal
together.
Hub166403920Iron and Cristal
together.
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Hub166403930Copper and Crystal
together.
Hub166403940Silver and Crystal
together.
Hub166403950Gold in the midst of a white
stone.
Hub166403960An Iron Bullet in the midst of a Stone.
Hub166403970A Hub166403980Touch stone, Hub166403990and a Metalline substance on the
other side like Copper.
Hub166404000A very strange kind of Mineral, held to be Quicksilver, that is fixed in his mine; for being
burnt it evaporates its self into a stinking vapour like to Quicksilver,
it is something rare; for the master of these Rarities, in his travells
never saw more then two peeces, and this was one of them.
Hub166404010A Flint and Copper grown
together.
Hub166404020Several sorts of Talkes.
Hub166404030Several sorts of Sulphur.
Hub166404040Several sorts of Earths out of Mines.
Hub166404050Several sortsof other Hub166404060Minerals as Hub166404070Cinabaris, Hub166404080Antimonium, Hub166404090Saffor, Hub166404100Murienum, Hub166404110Flores Martis,
and divers other Hub166404120Metals and Hub166404130Minerals and the like.
Precious STONES.
Hub166404140Amethist in the Mine.
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Hub166404150Granates in the Mine.
Hub166404160A sort of rich Diamond in the Mine.
Hub166404170Chrysolits in the Mine.
Hub166404180Jasper from the Mine.
Hub166404190Lapis Lazuli from the Mine.
Hub166404200Malaguita from the Mine.
Hub166404210Turkeise from the Mine.
Hub166404220Rubies from the Mine.
Hub166404230Vermilions from the Mine.
Hub166404240Emerauld from the Mine.
Hub166404250Hyacinths from the Mine.
Hub166404260And divers other sorts of precious Hub166404270stones and different sorts of
Hub166404280Pearls, for their colours and shapes, with several Hub166404290Toad stones and
Hub166404300Eagle stones and
such like.
Hub166404310A Bohemian Topaz, on a rich pedestal of Ebony.
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Hub166404320An other rare Topaz, that hath in it a
representation of a forrest, or bushy-hills.
Hub166404330A peece of AmbarAmber, that hath in it a
representation of a rising vapour or Cloud.
Hub166404340Divers other peeces of transparent Amber, that have all something or
other in them, as Flies, Spyders, Ants or the like.
Hub166404350Divers Stones of strange shapes and regular
formes.
Hub166404360Several Lapides
Ammonis, or stones like
Serpents.
Hub166404370Several Glosopetrat, or Tongue stones.
Hub166404380Several stones like unto Cloak buttons.
Hub166404390Several Lapides Lincei.
Hub166404400Several Lapides Judaici.
Hub166404410Lapis Hæmatites of Numidia.
Hub166404420Lapis Nephriticus of India.
Hub166404430Stones like Caps.
Hub166404440Stones like Hearts.
Hub166404450Stones like Starres.
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Hub166404460Stones like Wheeles of Watches.
Hub166404470Stones like little Pillars.
Hub166404480Stones like Crosses.
Hub166404490Stones like Screws.
Hub166404500Stones like Pease.
Hub166404510Stones like Darts-heads.
Hub166404520Stones square like Dice.
Hub166404530Stones in shape like Tobaco rowls.
Hub166404540Stones with well formed impressions.
Hub166404550A Stone that is hollow and does appear as if it had a hole quite
thorough but it has not.
Hub166404560A Stone like a Dogs tooth.
Hub166404570Agate Stones like the eyes of fishes.
Hub166404580A Stone like a little eare.
Hub166404590A Stone like ones gummes with teeth.
Hub166404600A Stone like the little Toe of ones left foot.
Hub166404610A Stone like the secret parts of a Woman.
Hub166404620Several Stones like unto Sugar plums,
Sweet-meates, March-pane, Sugar-candy, Sugar-cake and the like, and
divers other sorts of stone of the like nature.
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V. Things of strange Operation.
Hub166404630A Hard white Stone, that if one puts it in the
fire, doth suddenly turn to dust.
Hub166404640Stones that being put into a glasse of water, crack into small peces, so
that one may hear them crackle.
Hub166404650A Stone that if one blows on it, it smells; but if
one does not blow, it will not smell at all; and the harder one blowes,
the stronger it sents.
Hub166404660A Stone that if one puts it on the fire, gives an
excellent smell.
Hub166404670A Stone that is hard and heavy, yet being put in
the water does sent odoriferously like a hat-full of violet flowers.
Hub166404680A good Load-Stone, that is as rare as any other
thing, though common for his sudden attraction of Iron.
Hub166404690A Stone being held in a moist hand, gives 57 a sent
like a nasty hog, and therefore is called the swine
stone.
Hub166404700A peece of Wood as bad for being scraped; and a
little worme, smells like a stinking Jakes.
Hub166404710A peece of Wood being scrapt in a glasse of water,
it makes the water appear of two colours; for if one hold the glasse
betwixt two men, the one will say it is yellow and the other will say
that it is of a darke blew.
Hub166404720A peece of wood that is not heavy, yet sinks suddenly under water.
Hub166404730A stone, so hard, that can it scratch steel, yet being cast in the water
does not sink but swimes on the water.
Hub166404740A Mineral stone, that rubbing of it to a peece of
bright Iron or Steele, turns it suddenly into Copper.
Hub166404750Stones from the West India
that are hard, yet being put in vineger stirs to
and fro, and seemes to creep or go.
Hub166404760Other sorts of Stones that have the like property
of stirring in vineger.
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Hub166404770But above all these Stones 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 returnes to its first opacity; this
Rarity was presented to the better adorning of the forementioned
curiosities, by worthy Sr. Francis Peters.
Hub166404780A mineral substance, that being put in a glasse of
wine, makes infinite bubbles like atomes that rises in the middle of the
Wine to the delighting of the beholders.
Hub166404790An other mineral substance, like silke, called Amianthus, and also Asbestos, it being
put in the fire does not consume.
Hub166404800A Crustated Sponge; a little of it dryed and
applyed to ones wrist, makes it to itch for eight dayes together.
Hub166404810A fruit that being stuck on a forke and then held
over a candle, makes a very pleasant fire work.
Hub166404820A Rose of Jerico that is
drawn up together, a little bigger then a tenis ball, and is an hundred
years old.
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Hub166404830Besides these above mentioned things, there are Hub166404840Chests and Boxes
furnished with many hundreds of Rarities, as several Hub166404850shells, Hub166404860stones,
Hub166404870bones, Hub166404880marcasits, Hub166404890mineralls, Hub166404900fruits, Hub166404910Nutts, Hub166404920excrescences, and such like
things all different in shapes, and operations, and of divers countries,
Their Names and Natures being omitted for to avoid prolixity: But if the
owner of this collection of Rarities does sell them to any Noble minded
party, he then, God willing, will write at large a more ample
declaration to the expressing of each thing in particular, to honour
that vertuous person that shall buy them.
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A Catalogue of the Names of those Great Princes and
persons of Quality whose Love of Vertue, Learning, and of the admirable
workes of God in Natural Rarities has been shewed by their Bountifull
adding of something to the increase of the forementioned
Collection.
CHARLES the First, King of Great Britaine, France, and Ireland, &c.
CHARLES the Second, King of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland.
Ferdinand the third, Emper. of Germany &c.
Elionora Empresse, &c.
Ferdinand. the fourth, King of the Romans, &c.
Elleonora Queen Dowagere of Sweade, &c.
Christina 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 Brunzwich, &c.
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Frederick Duke of Holstein,
&c.
William Landgrave of Hessen,
Prince of Hersefeild, &c.
Gaston Duke of Orleans,
&c.
Philip Earl of Pembrooke.
Monsieur de Believre Great
Prresident
President
of France.
The Honorable Sr. Thomas Row, His Majesties
Ambassadour to the Great Mogor in India, and also
Embassador 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. Francis Peters a friend to Ingenuity and
Rarities.
Frederick Shink Governour of Selle, and Privy Councellour to the Duke of Brunzwich.
The Learned Petrus Carisius Resident for the King of
Denmark, in the united Provinces.
Sr. Theodore de Mayerne, Physitian to Queen Mother Heneretta Maria.
Esquire Courtine a lover of vertue and Ingenuity.
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Mr. Povey Treasurer to his Royal Highnesse the Duke of
Yorke.
Dr. Saltzman Physician, and Professor in the
University of Strasburgh.
Dr. Fausius, Professor in the University of Hidelberg.
Dr. Moretus, Professor in Astronomy in the University
of Prague.
Dr. Cornelius van der Lingon Physician in the
University of Utrecht.
Dr. Housewetel, Physician to the King of Sweden, and Cheif Physician in Hamburg.
Dr Bezler Cheif Physician in Nuramberg.
Dr. Brown Physician in Ausburg.
Dr. Dewit, Physician in the Country of Lief-land.
Dr. Eastgate, Physician in Poplar.
Mr. Thornton Chaplain to the
Righ
Right
Honorable Earl of Bedford.
Mr. Cornelius Middlegest, Clerk to the Company of the
Royal Adventurers of England Trading into Africa
FINIS.