Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society Part 12

An account of the state of the Earth about the _Poles_, how the Waters are continually swallowed up by the _Northern_, and running along through the Bowels of the Earth, do regurgitate at the _Southern Pole_, p. 159.

A description of Mount _Vesuvius_ and _aetna_, both visited by the Author himself, _Anno_ 1638. their Dimensions, Communication, Incendiums, Paths of Fiery Torrents cast out by them, &c. as also of the _Vulcans_ in _Iceland_ and _Groenland_, and their Correspondence and Effects. p. 180.

An Account of that famous and strange _Whirl-pool_ upon the Coasts of _Norway_: commonly call'd _The Maelstrom_; which the Author fancies to have Communication, by a Subterraneous Channel, with another such _Whirl-pool_ in the _Bodnick Bay_; by which commerce, according to him, the Waters, when, upon their acc.u.mulation and crowding together in one of these places, they are swallowed up by the Gulf there, carrying along with them whatsoever is in the way and lodging it in a certain receptacle at the bottom thereof, are conveyed through the same under-ground Channel to the other Gulf; where again, upon the like flux and retumescence of Waters, they are absorbed, and through the same Channel do reciprocally run to the former Gulf, and meeting in their impetuous Pa.s.sage with the things formerly sunk down into the Repository, carry them aloft, with themselves; and cast them up again on the Coast of _Norway_, p. 146.

A Relation of strange _Earth-quakes_, p. 220

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An Enumeration of all the celebrated _Medical Water, and hot Baths_, in all parts of the world, p. 236. _et seq._

In the _Second_ Part, some of his special Observations, are, How _Stones_ are _coloured_ and _figured_ under ground, p. 13. 24, 25.

Natures skill in _Painting_ of _Stones_, p. 22.

A whole Natural _Alphabet_ represented upon _Stones_, and all sorts of _Geometrical_ Figures, naturally Imprinted upon them, p. 23.

The cause of the variety of Colours in _Prismes_, and the Authors severe Judgment concerning those, that hold them to be meerly _Phantastical_, _pag._ 15, 16, 17. Where he also delivers an Experiment, by him counted wonderful, exhibiting all sorts of Colours by the means of _Mercury_, coagulated by the vapour of Lead, and put in a Bra.s.s spoon upon burning Coals.

The cause of the curious Colours in _Birds_, p. 17.

The way of Nature in the Generation of _Diamonds_, p. 21.

A way of preparing such a Liquor, that shall sink into, & colour the whole Body of Marble, so that a Picture made on the surface thereof, shall, the stone being cut through, appear also in the inmost part of the same, p. 43.

A Story of a whole Village in _Africa_ turned into Stone, with all the people thereof, p. 50.

An Experiment, representing the Generation of the _Stone_ in the _Bladder_, p. 52.

An _Asbestin_ Paper, that shall last perpetually, p. 74.

Several Relations of numerous Societies of People living under ground, and their _Oeconomy_; whereof a strange one is alledged to have been found in _England_, attested by an _English_ Author, p. 97, 98, 99.

A Relation of a Man that bred a Serpent in his Stomach, which came from him of the length of one Foot and a half, affirmed by the Author to have been seen by himself, p. 126.

Of whole Forrests of Coral at the bottom of the _Red Sea_, p. 159. {117}

The vanity of _Virga Divinatoria_, p. 181.

A peculiar way of was.h.i.+ng out very small _Dust-gold_, p. 198.

Of some extraordinary big pieces of perfect _Natural_ Gold and Silver, p.

203.

Of a very rare Mineral, sent to the Author out of the _Hungarian_ Mines, which had pure Silver branching out into Filaments, and some splendid yellow parts, which was pure Gold, and some dark parts, which was Silver mixed with Gold, 189.

_Salt_ the _Basis_ of all Natural Productions, and the admirable variety of Salts, p. 299.

Strange Figures of _Plants_, p. 348.

The way of producing _Plants_; p. 414.

In how much time a Swallow can fly about the World, p. 411, &c.

This may suffice, to give occasion to the Searchers of Nature, to examine this Book, and the Observations and Experiments contained therein, together with the Ratiocinations raised thereupon, and to make severer and more minute Inquiries and Discussions of all.

_A farther account of an Observation above-mentioned, about _White Blood_._

Since the Printing of the former Sheet, there is this farther account from the same hand.

Mr. _Boyle_,

I have at length, according to your desire, received from the Ingenious Dr.

_Lower_, an account in writing of the Observation about _Chyle_ found in the Blood; which though you may think strange, agrees well with some Experiments of his and mine, not now to be mentioned. The Relation, though short, comprizing the main Particulats of what he had more fully told me in Discourse, I shall give it you with little or no variation from his own words. {118}

A Maid, after eating a good Break-fast, about seven in the Morning, was let Blood about eleven the same day in her Foot; the first Blood was receiv'd in a Porringer, and within a little while it turn'd very white; the last Blood was received in a Sawcer, which turn'd white immediately, like the white of a Custard. Within five or six hours after, he (the Physitian) chanced to see both, and that in the Porringer was half Blood and half Chyle, swimming upon it like a Serum as white as Milk, and that in the Sawcer all Chyle without the least appearance of a drop of Blood; and when he heated them distinctly over a gentle fire, they both harden'd: As the white of an Egge when 'tis heated, or just as the _Serum_ of Blood doth with heating, but far more white. This Maid was then in good health, and only let Blood because she never had her Courses, yet of a very florid clear Complexion.

Note.

_The _Reader_ of these Papers is desired, that in those of _Numb. 4. pag.

60. lin. 10_. he would be pleased to read _eight_, instead of _hundred_: this latter word having been put in by a great over-sight, and without this Correction, injuring that Author, whose Considerations are there related.

This Advertis.e.m.e.nt should have been given in _Number 5_. but was omitted for haste._

Imprimatur _Rob. Say, Vice-Cancel._ Oxon.

Oxford, Printed by _Leonard Lichfield_: for _Richard Davis_. 1665.

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_Num._ 7.

PHILOSOPHICAL _TRANSACTIONS._

Monday, _Decemb._ 4. 1665.