“ But yet he would not be understood so strictly in asserting that streight motion, but that Comets may more or less deviate from that streightness, both in appearance, and really; the former arising from the various sight of them, and their various distance from the Earth and the Sun, and the Annual motion of the Earth, the latter, from the matter of their Bodies and Nucleus's (as he calls the substance of their Head) not increasing nor decreasing uniformly on all sides. ”

“ Whether a Tree, whose Root is cover'd from Rain, and not water'd, if the branches of it be expos'd to the Air, will grow?
16. Whether inoculated Roots of a Tree will grow?
17. How short the Arms of the Roots of a Tree maybe cut, and the Tree still grow?
18. How deep the several kinds of Trees are to be set in the ground to grow?
19. Whether or no a Seed being planted either way, it will grow equally?
20. Whether the Stem of a Tree being set in the Earth, and the Root turn'd up into the Air, the Tree will grow? ”

“ How they increase in bulk, and commonly with much quickness near the Sun? Why they are made up of several Kernels? Why not all Cometick matter is moved towards the same quarter of the Heavens? How it comes to pass, that at one and the same time more Comets than one are produced, and that they meet one another, and by their mutual concourse change one anothers motion, or break into parts and so constitute several Stars? Why all Comets are not visible to us? Why there are more Comets in one Age, than another? Why they do not alwayes move equal spaces in equal times ”

“ There grows a Berry (by report) both in the Bermudas and New-England, call'd the Summer-Island-Redweed, which Berry is as red as the Prickle-Peare, giving much the like tincture; out of which Berry come out first; Worms, which afterward turn into Flyes somewhat bigger then the Cochineel-Flye, feeding on the same Berry: In which we read, there hath been found a colour no whit inferior to that of the Cochineel-Flye, and as to Medicinal vertue much exceeding it. ”

“ Whereas Vegetables of Tincture are either Herbs, or Woods, or Berries and other Fruits; to breed Insects out of Herbes, dry them, (for so they yield the best tincture;) otherwise stamp them, and let them dry, till they will suffer no more juyce to run from them, (this in the Sun or in a proportionable heat:) or if dryed, infuse them with water in a heat for 24 houres ”

“ I answer, that most of the Juyce of the Milky vessels is discharged between the Tunicles of the Veines, Arteries, Lymphaticks, Membrans, and the vessels in the Mesentery, to be conveyed into all the parts of the Body, both Internal and External, For even in bearing Females the Fruit is not nourish'd by any Blood, but by the nutritious Juyce, conveyed to it ”

“ He intermixes abundance of Philosophical Speculations and Remarkes, among which are some concerning Fermentation; the noxiousness of all such things, as either destroy or dull the Acid spirit of the Body in the work of Nutrition; the dominion of the three Humors in the Body of Animals, viz, the Gall, the Pancreatick Juyce, and the Saliva, and their Mixture, either immediate or mediate, with the Blood returning to the Heart ”

“ THe Doctrine of the Magnet and Magnetical Motions is yet so obscure, that what hitherto hath been discoursed and written upon that Subject, proves very unsatisfactory to Men, that consider the various Phenomena and effects of that Body. ”

“ Whether a fading colour, yielded by certain Vegetables, might not be fixed by causing such a Fermentation in the Concrete, as may engender Insects giving the tincture of its original, which will hold in Grain? ”

“ WHat Vegetables there are, which, having the wrong end of them set downward into the ground, will yet grow; as 'tis said Elders and Bryars will.
2. Whether the Branch of a Plant (as of a Vine or Bramble) being laid into the ground whil'st yet growing on the Tree, and there taking root, being cut off from the Tree whil'st so growing, will shoot out forward and backward?
3. In tapping, cutting or boring of any Tree, whether the Juyce, that vents at it, comes from above or below. ”

“ Having supposed this, he assumes farther, that Bodies turn'd round, the longer they move, and the greater the Circle is, they move in, the greater impetus and vehemence they acquire, tending alwayes to recede from the Center to the Circumference, and being separated and set at liberty from their vertiginous or circular motion, they continue to be moved (as long as no stop intervenes,) but no more in that circulary, but in a straight line, viz. ”

“ Their Females have abundance of Milk, which their young ones suck out of the Tears, that grow by their Navell. They have no Teeth, but feed on Mosse, growing on the Rocks at the bottom during these three Moneths, and at no other season of the Year, When that is consumed and gone, the Whales go away also. ”

“ How the Earth is compounded and order'd for several kinds Of Seeds and Plants?
5. What to be sow'd on the cold ground?
6. What to be sow'd on hot beds?
7. Several wayes of making hot beds, and their attendance?
8. How and what to be transplanted either into cold ground, or into new hot beds, and how order'd after?
9. What Observations of the Sun, Moon, and Weather, for sowing, planting and transplanting?
10. How to Water an shade Plants new planted, and Seeds sow'd?
11. What thrives best in the Sun?
12. What thrives best in the shade? ”

“ How to alter the shape, smell, colour and taste of Vegetables by joyning different Roots together?
29. How and what may be chang'd by grafting, joyning or inoculating shoots or Buds on different Stocks or Cyons?
30. How to compound several Liquors to water and feed Vegetables, whereby they may be much alter'd?
31. Of what Roots, Stalks, Barks, Leaves, Flowers, Fruits, seeds, Downs, may be made either Cups, Boxes, Baskets, Matts, Calicoes, Cloaths (as Netie-cloath) and the like? All which will be most useful for the life of Man from the Garden. ”

“ How to discerne good Seeds from bad?
37. The times of gathering, and, the wayes of preserving them, &c.
'Tis supposed, that the Names of the Vegetables, which make up the Kitchin-garden, and the Winter-greens; are sufficiently known: yet if there be any, that desire to have a good List of both sorts publisht, they may be gratify'd therein; upon intimation given to the Publisher, who hath by him such as List, collected by the same Noble Person, who now proposeth the Queries for fuller information, than hath been given hitherto. ”

“ To open Fruits of a larger kind, and the Stones or Kernels being taken out, to dry them. 3. To send Seeds, or Berryes, when they are ready to drop off, with as much husk or skins upon them, as may be. 4. To wrap up Roots in Mosse or light Earth, and to keep them, as much as is possible, from any dashing of Sea-water in the Voyage. 5. To set Plants or young Trees in halfe Tubs of Earth, arched over with hoops, and cover'd with Matts to preserve them from the dashing of Sea-water; giving them Air by all means every day, the weather being fair, and watering them with fresh water once a day. ”

“ When those, which I send to you, are blackt with Ink, they will become stiffer and rougher, and hold firmer in any posture, as your occasion requires. At the first they should be drawn in the bone within the third part of an inch of the very top ”

“ If it shall be said, that Nature, when put to shifts, finds out strange conveyances to rid the Body of what is extraneous and offensive to it, I readily grant it, because many instances are known, making that, good ”

“ To send of all the sorts of Potatoes in Earth. 7. To send all sorts of Berries, Grasses, Grains and Herbes, wrapping up the Seeds very dry in paper. By the next opportunity there shall be Roots, Seeds, and Fruits provided for you.——
At present I shall informe you, that the Water about our Island does not flow, by any Mans Observation, above five Foot; and that but at one season of the year, between Michaelmas and Christmas; at other times not above three Foot. It is High-water, when the Moon is about an hour high ”

“ These Queries are made publick, to the end that such at are curious and inquisitive in this noble Subject of Vegetation, may be the better furnisht with matter to exercise their researches and Observations upon, and be also excited to communicate what they either already know, or may yet learn of these matters, for further elucidation of the yet too obscure nature of Vegetation. ”

“ How to prune Wall-Trees, and with what to be best fastned?
35. The Places, from whence the best of the Vegetables, that are either Winter-greens, or fit for the Kitchin-garden, may be had; and the marks of their goodness? ”

“ If any thing should cause him to faile, it will be Age and weakness. He hath a great desire to serve the R. Society in every respect; which shall engage me also to serve both them and you to the utmost of my ability, remaining, &c. ”

“ And I am of opinion, there is not a more healthful place in the World, 'Tis stored with variety of Fish and Fowl, and with divers sorts of Trees and other Plants, whose qualities are not yet known.
As to the Age of our Inhabitants here, some do live to an hundred years and something upwards; many live till they are nigh a hundred, but few above: And when they dye, 'tis age and weakness, that is the cause, and not any disease that attends them. The general distemper that is yearly amongst us, is a Cold ”

“ And methinks, the conveyance of the Milk into the breast hath much affinity with this of the Urine into the Bladder; the sudden pressing whereof into the Papps after the Nurses drinking ordinary Milk could no more be explained by the ordinary doctrine of Circulation, than this of the urine into the Bladder, till the shorter cut was hit upon by the Ductus tboroacici; though ordinarily it may be {irayn'd in from the Arteries, as the Serum also in the Kidneys; onely in a Milk-floud Nature finds some other Channel there, as here in a Water-floud. ”