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ture of Vines in _England_ has only proceeded from men's misinformation on this material article of _Choice_ of _Soyle_ and _Scituation_. 3. How to _prepare_ the Ground for the Plantation, _vid._ by plowing up the _Swarth_ in _July_, and by disposing the _Turf_ in _small_ heaps, and so burning them, and spreading the ashes over the Land; care being taken, that by heaping too much materials together, the Earth be not over-burnt by the excessive heat and fire, which they require to reduce them to ashes. What is added, of the Manner of planting the _Sets_; of Dressing, Pruning, and Governing the Plantation; of the Ordering and Cultivating the Vine-yard after the first four years, till it needs renewing; as also of the _manner_ and _time_, how and when to manure the Vine-yard, with Compost, will be better understood from the Book it self, than can be here described; the Author pretending, that, those few observations of his, as the native production of his own Experience, being practised with care, the Vine-yards in _England_ may be planted, govern'd and perpetuated with undoubted success; and offering withall to furnish those, that have a desire to renew this Culture, and to store their grounds with _Sets_ and _Plants_ of all those sorts, which he recommends; he having a plentiful _stock_ of them all. * * * * * Printed with Licence for _John Martyn_, and _James Allestry_, Printers to the Royal Society. 1666. {263} * * * * * _Num._ 16. PHILOSOPHICAL _TRANSACTIONS._ * * * * * _Munday_, _August_ 6. 1666. * * * * * The Contents. _An essay of Dr. _John Wallis_, exhibiting his _Hypothesis_ about the _Flux and Reflux of the Sea_, taken from the consideration of the _Common Center of Gravity of the Earth and Moon_; together with an _Appendix_ of the same, containing an _Answer_ to some _Objections_, made by severall Persons against that _Hypothesis_. Some Animadversions of the same _Author_ upon Master _Hobs'_s late Book, _De Principiis & Ratiocinatione Geometrarum_._ * * * * * _An Essay of Dr. _John Wallis_, exhibiting his _Hypothesis_ about the _Flux and Reflux of the Sea_._ How abstruse a subject in Philosophy, the _Flux and Reflux of the Sea_ hath proved hitherto, and how much the same hath in all Ages p
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