“ Likewise Ships bound to the Barbados go by the Canaries, but come home a great way to the North-West of the Azores. And the Virginia-ships are twice as long in going out, as they are in comming home, and many times longer: for, they come home befor the Wind directly, but goe out round about as the Tropick, or at leak to 28 degrees Latitude for the benefit of the North-East Wind; and when that hath carried them farr West, they come back to the Nordward again: and then, as the Westerly wind hangs more or less Southerly, they have a good or bad passage. ”

“ This thread taken up by the wind, was in a moment emitted some fathoms long, still issuing out of the belly of the animal; by and by the Spider lept into the air, and the thread mounted her up swiftly.
After this first discovery, I made the like Observation in almost all the sorts of Spiders, I had before distinguished; and I found the Air filled with young and old sailing on their threads, and undoubtedly seizing Gnats and other Insects in their passage; there being often as manifest signes of slaughter, as leggs, wings of Flyes &c. ”

“ Then he affirms, that wood rotten hath no Alcaly in it, and that it rots not but upon the account of the exhaling of that Salt. Whence 'tis saith he, that the Venetians, to harden the Timber design'd for building of Ships, sink it green in water, and there leave it many years; which is the cause, that the Alcaly having been hindred from exhaling, the Timber rots not, and becomes as hard in a manner as stone. ”

“ The Particular considers time in particular, demonstrating the certainty of Epocha's, and enumerating the Calendars of the several Nations.
The latter Author, considering with himself; that of the writers of Chronology, some have contented themselves to teach only the Precepts thereof; others, to reform the dates of it, and to marke the Characters of Times, without rehearing the considerable passages of them; others on the contrary confounding Chronology with History, have recited the remarkable Events, without much troubling themselves about the time, wherein they hapned ”

“ That nothing pierces so much as Alcaly's, and that therefore Nature hath stored the Sweat of Animals so plentifully with it. For, that the ordure, which continually gathers on the skin, would soon stop the pores of it, if the sweat were not furnisht with some efficacious dissolvent to open and pierce them. Where he observes, that the best liquored Boots, and such as are water-proof, will be quickly pierced by the sweat of Horses ”

“ And besides, they are but the young ones of last Autumns hatch, that are then employed; and it is more than probable, that the great ropes of Autumne are made only by the great ones, and upon long passage stand Summer weather, when great numbers of prey may invite them to stay longer up. ”

“ You tell me, that it is generally concluded by Philosophers, That the reason of the usuall Turn of Snailes from the left to the right, is the like motion of the Sun, and that especially more Nord-ward, there having not been hitherto discovered any in our parts of the contrary Turn to the Sun's motion. But this is not the only case, where they are out, who consult not the stores of Nature, but their own phancy. What I am further about to tell you concerning Spiders, is as evident an Instance against them. ”

“ Then with a long Iron forceps I carefully broke off the seal'd end of the Buble under water, so as no Buble of Air appear'd to emerge or escape through the water; but the liquor by the weight of the Atmosphere sprung into the un-replenisht part of the Glass-buble, and fill'd the whole cavity about half full; and presently, as I foretold the Buble subsided and made the Scale, 'twas fastned to, preponderate so much, that there needed 4. drachms and 38. graines no reduce the Ballance to an Æquilibrium. ”

“ And having done this, he thence takes occasion to treat of the nature of Salts, especially of the Alcaly's and Acids, which he, with fume other Chymists, holds to be the first Principles of all mixt Bodies. ”

“ The colour of the Shell is of a dark and reddish brown.
There are two sorts of this make described, and with their respective Cutts, in Fabius Columna; but ours agree not with them in any thing more than the odd Turn: though 'tis true, that the other, the third there described, and call'd by him Cochlea Terrestris turbinata et striata, is very frequent in the road 'twixt Canterbury and Dover, and likewise in some wooddy parts of the Woles in Lincolnshire. ”

“ They are seldome or never more Southerly; but on this side the Line they have sometimes been met between 11. and 12. degrees North-Latitude, and sometimes in 9. and 10. degrees. These Tornadoes are uncertain winds, blowing from all points of the Compass in the same hour, and sometimes the wind shifts thus without being intermitted, and other whiles it will be stark calme, almost between every puff. ”

“ West. Violent wind At 4. p. m. it shifted suddainly from WNW to WbS. At 10. at night to S W b W; after midnight, to 5 WbS; about 4. to SSW.
June 14. very great wind at SSW About mid-night it shifted to W; and immediately follow'd a very terrible storm of Wind and rain; and a great over-grown Sea.
June. 15. at 7. in the morning the wind came back again to SSW. the Whole day was a very dreadful storm of wind. At noon (by accompt) we were in 34. 42′. South. Latitude, and 3. 20′ to East-ward of the Meridian of the Lizard. The sea was exceedingly rough. At 4. p. m. fell a great storm of Hail. ”

“ An Invention for Estimating the Weight of Water in Water with ordinary Ballances and Weights.An Extract of a Letter, containing an Accompt of a Passage by sea to the East-Indies.Some Considerations about Slate.Observations concerning the odd Turn of some Shell-snailes, and the Darting of Spiders.An accompt of some Books. ”

“ WHereas among the Materials for Building, that for Covering is not the least to be considered, among the kinds thereof our Country-slate is not to be despised, and that as well for its Stateliness, as Permanency ”