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 Passage 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 Brass 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}
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