VOLUME II

LONDON GRANT RICHARDS 1904

Edinburgh T. and A. CONSTABLE, Printers to His Majesty

PREFATORY NOTE

The frontispiece to this volume is reproduced from a photograph kindly lent to me for the purpose by Mr. Charles Williams, F.R.C.S.E., of Norwich, whose note upon the measurements of Sir Thomas Browne's skull appeared as Appendix II. in the edition of Browne's _Hydriotaphia_ and _Garden of Cyrus_, published in the 'Golden Treasury Series,' by Messrs. Macmillan and Co., in 1896.

The identification of the author quoted in the margin of page 233 (Book v. Chapter x.). I owe to Mr. W. Aldis Wright.

C.S. _May 1, 1904._

CONTENTS

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THE THIRD BOOK (_continued_):

11. Of Griffins, 1 12. Of the Phœnix, 4 13. Of Frogs, Toads, and Toad-stone, 13 14. Of the Salamander, 18 15. Of the Amphisbæna, 22 16. Of the Viper, 26 17. Of Hares, 33 18. Of Moles, or Molls, 42 19. Of Lampries, 46 20. Of Snayls, 48 21. Of the Chameleon, 50 22. Of the Ostrich, 62 23. Of Unicorns Horn, 66 24. That all animals of the Land, are in their kind in the Sea, 73 25. Concerning the common course of Diet, in making choice of some Animals, and abstaining from eating others, 76 26. Of Sperma-Ceti, and the Sperma-Ceti Whale, 85 27. Compendiously of Sundry Tenents concerning other Animals, which examined, prove either false or dubious, 89 28. Of some others, 103

THE FOURTH BOOK:

1. Of the Erectness of Man, 109 2. Of the Heart, 113 3. Of Pleurisies, 116 4. Of the Ring-finger, 117 5. Of the right and left Hand, 122 6. Of Swimming and Floating, 134 7. Concerning Weight, 138 8. Of the passage of Meat and Drink, 142 9. Of Sneezing, 144 10. Of the Jews, 147 11. Of Pigmies, 155 12. Of the great Climacterical year, that is, Sixty-three, 160 13. Of the Canicular or Dog daies, 183

THE FIFTH BOOK:

1. Of the Picture of the Pelecan, 202 2. Of the Picture of Dolphins, 205 3. Of the Picture of a Grashopper, 207 4. Of the Picture of the Serpent tempting Eve, 209 5. Of the Picture of Adam and Eve with Navels, 212 6. Of the Pictures of Eastern Nations, and the Jews at their Feasts, especially our Saviour at the Passover, 215 7. Of the Picture of our Saviour with long hair, 224 8. Of the Picture of Abraham sacrificing Isaac, 226 9. Of the Picture of Moses with horns, 227 10. Of the Scutcheons of the Tribes of Israel, 229 11. Of the Pictures of the Sibyls, 233 12. Of the Picture describing the death of Cleopatra, 235 13. Of the Pictures of the Nine Worthies, 237 14. Of the Picture of Jephthah sacryficing his daughter, 241 15. Of the Picture of John the Baptist, 245 16. Of the Picture of St. Christopher, 247 17. Of the Picture of St. George, 249 18. Of the Picture of Jerom, 251 19. Of the Pictures of Mermaids, Unicorns, and some others, 253 20. Of the Hieroglyphical Pictures of the Egyptians, 258 21. Of the Picture of Haman hanged, 260 22. Compendiously of many questionable Customs, Opinions, Pictures, Practices, and Popular Observations, 264 23. Of some others, 276

THE SIXTH BOOK:

1. Concerning the beginning of the World, 283 2. Of mens Enquiries in what season or Point of the Zodiack it began, 300 3. Of the Divisions of the seasons and four Quarters of the year, 302 4. Of some computation of days and deductions of one part of the year unto another, 309 5. A Digression of the wisdom of God in the site and motion of the Sun, 313 6. Concerning the vulgar opinion, that the Earth was slenderly peopled before the Flood, 319 7. Of East and West, 338 8. Of the River Nilus, 349 9. Of the Red Sea, 363 10. Of the Blackness of Negroes, 367 11. Of the same, 380 12. A Digression concerning Blackness, 387 13. Of Gypsies, 395 14. Of some others, 397

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THE THIRD BOOK--_continued_