Miscellanea Curiosa, Vol. 3 containing a collection of curious travels, voyages, and natural histories of countries as they have been delivered in to the Royal Society

There is now Engraving, and will speedily be Publish'd, _A New Pair of_ GLOBES, sixteen Inches Diameter; the _Terrestrial_ has on it all the New Discoveries that have been latel...

This conjecture, how likely or unlikely soever, will stand or fall according to the certainty of the _Observations_, which shall be made there, which I will endeavour to procure...

Sailing toward the West of _Portland_, we saw several _Porpisces_ playing with their Heads above Water; which I mention only, because the Seamen look upon them as fore-runners o...

They reckon in the City above a hundred publick Baths, every street almost affording one. They are esteemed works of great Piety and Charity; there being a continual use of them...

Some of the more zealous _Turks_ cause to be engraven on their Scymitars and Bucklers a Sentence out of the sixty first _Surat_, which is concerning Fighting or Battle-array, an...

Their Empire owes the continuance of its being to the severity of the Government, which oftentimes takes place without regard either to Justice or Equity, and to their frequent...

As soon as you are entred within the Court, you see the Remainders of two Rows of very Noble Marble Pillars 37 Foot high, with their Capitals of most exquisite Carved Work; as a...

I am pretty confident that the Word I have mark'd with a Line under it, is rightly taken, and therefore know not what to guess it to be, unless the proper Name of the Fountain....

_July 23._ we rose by One in the Morning, and Travelling most East, we came to a large Plain, where we saw before us, on a high Mountain, a great Castle, call'd by the _Arabs_ _...

_October_ the 3d. We mounted from _Almyrrha_ between five and six in the Morning, making to the point of a high ridge of Mountains, through an uneven Desart Way, frequently inte...

As soon as we alighted, we were attended by the Officers of the _Emir_, and conducted to a very noble Tent built after the _Turkish_ Mode, and pitch'd next to his own. Hither he...

and he makes it the Capital of sixteen Cities in _Syria Palmyrena_, whereof _Alalis_, _Danaba_ and _Evaria_ were afterwards _Bishops Sees_. _Pliny_ places it CCIII Miles from th...

The March was so well regulated, that this Army Incamped every Night upon the sides of some River or Brook. 'Twas for this Reason that they caused the Tents and the Baggage nece...

After all, The Monarch which in our Days hath re-united the _Chinese_ and the _Tartars_, under one and the same Government, has done some things more for the advantage of the se...

Upon perusing all the Accounts I could meet with in Books, I found very little satisfaction as to what I principally inquired after, which was first concerning the method of the...

I here send you some Fragments of Papers put into my Hands by a very good Friend, relating to antique and obscure Inscriptions, which were retrieved after the Death of Mr. _Flow...

The Diamonds are so scatter'd and dispersed in the Earth, and lie so thin, that in the most plentiful Mines it's rare to find one in digging, or till they have prepar'd the Stuf...

They have Books full of the like absurdities, and Cabalistick complication of Figures; as for Example, if you write these following Numbers, 28, 35, 2, 7. ---- 6, 3, 32, 31--34,...

In the Sea I saw many little things which the Seamen call Carvels; they are like a Jelly or Starch that is made with a cast of Blue in it; they Swim like a small Sheep's Bladder...

When you make the Capes of _Virginia_, you may observe it low Land, so that at some distance the Trees appear as if they grew in the Water; and as you approach nigher to emerge...

I shall here present you with a continuation of my Remarks on the River, Soil, and Plants of _Virginia_. And first, as to the River on the other side the Mountains, said to Ebb...

There's both the Raven, and the Carrion-Crow; I do not remember I ever saw any Rooks there. Dr. _Moulin_ and my self, when we made our Anatomies together, when I was at _London_...

Another very common sort, which they call _Toads_, because black, but I think differs nothing from our black Frog. They have Toads also like ours in _England_; and another small...

The Shore lies almost East and West, expos'd to the Sea wholly upon the South, the Country is Hilly, the Hills not very high, but thick, clustering together, the Valleys between...

21. About 7. _a. m._ a few Drops, after clear and extream hot, but quickly cloudy again; at 11. _a. m._ a violent Tornada, with very strong Rain and Thunder for near an Hour; th...

The Catacombs are an obscure Argument. I have seen those of _Rome_, I have seen those of _Naples_, and as they say there are Catacombs in the Neighbourhood of all the great Town...

After that the _Rhone_ is entred into the Lake, he retakes not his impetuous course before a quarter of a Mile's distance from its coming forth again, that is, above _Geneva_. A...

5. From these _data_, That it was in the Year of the _Consulate_ of _Pompey_, and _Crassus_; That it was _Exigua parte æstatis reliqua_, and Four Days before a Full-Moon, which...