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arc a People very Tittwous and Coouardly in Fight, yct when t alten fre-soner: and Condemn’d, they’1 Dye likc Heroes» Braving the raost Exqui-site Tortures that can be Invented, and Singing ali the time they are uponthe Rack.

XXL The Grame » Ifcbamon, call’d by others Gramen Da&yloides, or otservMtsnfrSanguineUa ; and the Gramen Aquaticum cum Longis ima Fannie ala, mention’db y Baubsnus, Grow here (about franckfort on the Oder) in great Plenty.chr. B*ckm*o.In the Foreft, call’d the Hartz,, therc are very Considerable both Copper and n ' 33 ‘ p ‘ 77 i 'Silver- Mines ; Store of Lapis Fißlis ; and a fort of Sterne, which by Raingrows altogether Soft ; and a Place call’d Bowmaris Hole , like that of Oky.

Hole about Wells in England.

XXII. S. Borelli , pretends to ha ve Lighted upon away of Building Gal- StmrCemum-lies with several lires of Oars, of different heights ; which he esteems to uliyTbj !'°7..be more Convenient, more Speedy, and Stronger than thole that are now "• fI +- p- i°9-in use. He thinks also, that he can give an account of the Possibilityof the Gallus of the Ancients to a Determinate Numbcr of lires.

There is at Rame a Bowl, which is so Counterpois’d, that it can stopof it seif upon an Inchning Plane like Keplers Watch. it stop* upon allfbrts of Matter andeven upon a Looking-Glaß.

XXIII. I took notice in the University of Bononia of this Infcription made ohscrv*ti<ms >,in Commesdation of the deservedly Famous Malptgbi. It is in the upperGallcry in a Large Basii Painted in Frese», with some Figures about it. p.«i 7 .

D. O. M.

Virtuti & Fama in tAßvum mansura Inclyti Viri M. Malpighii, MedicinaFroseßbris Celeberrimi, utraque Artißarum Universitas P, Anno Salutis. i68z.

And a lictle Lower,

Miraris Breve Lemma ? Nemn Ingens ornari negat : esi fatis Referri.

Jussum Cxtera tacere Marmor. Omnis Malfigbium Lsquetur (Aßt as.

I have made some Observafions upon the Bronchoctle, a Dilferaper veryfrequent ali over Lombardy , and Savoy. By the Disposition of this Tumor,

I am satisfy’d it has principally its Seat in the Glandula Thyroidea , andsometimes too, but very seldome in the Parotis Conglobata. I couldplainly sie the Parotides Conglomerata were no wise Concern’d. , ThisI have observ’d in siveral Broncboceles of a very great Bignefs. I conceivetheso Tumors (that are generally attnbuted to the Water the People Drmkthat is Alelted Snvw) do proceed a Lentore Lympha , which by degrees ex«tend theFolhculi Glandularum Membranosi-, and being there Congeal d, har-dens them to that Degree, that an Inveterate Bronchoctle is almost like a^toue, But why thesi: Swellings are to be sien no where elfe, but in these

H h h h 2 Glands