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Waws or Body of the St* became Crm . I observ’d, that the Su i, whicVwas Azure, and Transparent in Sun-shiny Dayt, was Black and D*rk>Coltmrd, and much lesi Transparent, when the Sun dici not Shine. Lutin the Grttn Sea there happens not the Ukc Difterenee.

As to thofe Plants, wnose Roots 1 said werc Stony, it may be Noted,that some ot their Roots are Totaily Petrisfd, some onlv in pari j the reitbemg of another kind ot more Vegetable llke Conftsttmee.j whiltl thoBougbs and Trank are of another Nature.

Of the l Vater at the Tom of Jamaica, I (hall further ob serve, That»though the Sand doe? (b Percolate , that youFind it uponDigging f or 6Foot deepj yet front that Sand there arisos no Steam intothe Air, notwith-llanding the Heat of the Country. ForProofhereof, I observ’d, thatMenwould Ue allNight, and fleep onthe Sandt withoutHurt. And to takeno«tice of that particular upon this Occasion, ’tis an usual thing for the Wea-nj 'tll (or Fly that breeds in \Meal, Crrrants, Raißns, &c.) to be thus Cur’d:After that the Sun hath Heated the Sand, they spread a Sheet, and on thatSpread their Med, Currants, &c. the Sand being Hot under, the said JVea«<yilt terire from the Lottom to the Upper parts; and these being Htatti, •they retire all into the Middle, and tbence, being Heated, they ate forc’dto run away ouf,‘ and are so Swept away. And if you spread the Sheeton the Firm Ground, though never so much Heated with the Sun, it willpresently grow Datpp there, and the IVeavth will Lodgcthetnselves at theLottom; so as that you can never separate them any whtre eile, but on theSand. Also in the Night. I observ’d, that beeween the other Ground andour Pendulous Tlamacb, there gathcr’d not only a Greater Coldneß of Air,but also Moifiure, thun was observable at the Point, when wc.hwng in thelikePosture. Ic is true, that. the Reason isobvious, why there (hould bean Air under the Narrow Passage betwixt the tiamack, and the Ground,wbich is not obsorvable Above it; but there is also a Dampneß , so that I wasforc’d toputTwo Blankets betwixt me and the Bottom, vvhilst I had neveran one to Cover me a Top

During an Hour or two’s Stay at ihe Caymans, 1 examin’d that Assertian >of M. Lygon $, That a Tortotfe hath z Heart s ; and I found it Falso : For,akhough the rc so rh blance of the l'wi Aurisles be such, as also their Bodiesor Flesh, as to dective the Unwary Observer, yet is there but One HeartTriangulär and Fleshy, the other 7ii>o are only the Auricles, yetof the sameShape and Body. The Two Auricl s M we at a Several Time from theHeart, and they are Distanced from the Heart about .an Incb. ; and the pal-sotge Fleshy (as I remember) and Narrow by which theBlood is infusod tn-to the Heart, This Heart hath but Orte Fentrkk ; yet are there severalCo»lumm of Flesh and Receptacles in it, such as are not in the Aumltt .

The Graß of the Submarine Meadows is not a Span long, that I couldobsorve , 'and is of a Green approaching to Yelkw. The Tcrtotfis Bitenuich more than they Swallow, so that the Sea is Cover’d with the Graß,where they Feed nt the Bottom. Once in about half an Upttr they come up,and fetch One Bredtbllke a'Sigb, and then Sink down again : And if out

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