"where trees and berries are set, whereof we make "divers kinds of drinks, besides the vineyards. In these we practise likewise all conclusions of graft 66 ing and inoculating, as well of wild trees as "fruit trees, which produceth many effects. And "we make, by art, in the same orchards and gar66 dens, trees and flowers to come earlier or later than "their seasons; and to come up and bear more "speedily than by their natural course they do. We "make them also by art greater much than their "nature; and their fruit greater, and sweeter, and of differing taste, smell, colour, and figure, from their "nature. And And many of them we so order, as they "become of medicinal use. 66 "We have also means to make divers plants rise "by mixtures of earths without seeds; and likewise "to make divers new plants, differing from the "vulgar; and to make one tree or plant turn into "another. 66 66 66 66 "We have also parks and inclosures of all sorts of "beasts and birds, which we use not only for view or rareness, but likewise for dissections and trials; that "thereby we may take light what may be wrought "upon the body of man. Wherein we find many strange effects; as continuing life in them, though "divers parts, which you account vital, be perished, " and taken forth; resuscitating of some that seem "dead in appearance; and the like. We try also all poisons and other medicines upon them, as well of chirurgery as physic. By art likewise, we make " them greater or taller than their kind is; and con"trariwise dwarf them, and stay their growth: we "make them more fruitful and bearing than their "kind is; and contrariwise barren, and not generative. "Also we make them differ in colour, shape, activity, "many ways. We find means to make commixtures " and copulations of divers kinds, which have pro"duced many new kinds, and them not barren, as the general opinion is. We make a number of kinds "of serpents, worms, flies, fishes, of putrefaction; "whereof some are advanced in effect to be perfect "creatures, like beasts, or birds; and have sexes, and "do propagate. Neither do we this by chance, but "we know beforehand, of what matter and com"mixture, what kind of those creatures will arise. "We have also particular pools, where we make "trials upon fishes, as we have said before of beasts " and birds. "We have also places for breed and generation of "those kinds of worms, and flies, which are of spe"cial use; such as are with you your silk-worms and "bees. "I will not hold you long with recounting of our "brew-houses, bake-houses, and kitchens, where are "made divers drinks, breads, and meats, rare, and "of special effects. Wines we have of grapes; and "drinks of other juice, of fruits, of grains, and of "roots: and of mixtures with honey, sugar, manna, "and fruits dried and decocted. Also of the tears "or woundings of trees, and of the pulp of canes. "And these drinks are of several ages, some to the age or last of forty years. We have drinks also "brewed with several herbs, and roots, and spices; "yea, with several fleshes, and white meats; whereof some of the drinks are such as they are in effect "meat and drink both: so that divers, especially in 66 age, do desire to live with them, with little or no "meat, or bread. And above all, we strive to have "drinks of extreme thin parts, to insinuate into the body, and yet without all biting, sharpness, or fret 66 66 16 ting; insomuch as some of them put upon the back "of your hand, will, with a little stay, pass through "to the palm, and yet taste mild to the mouth. We "have also waters which we ripen in that fashion as 66 they become nourishing; so that they are indeed “excellent drink; and many will use no other. "Breads we have of several grains, roots, and ker"nels: yea, and some of flesh, and fish, dried; with "divers kinds of leavenings and seasonings: so that 66 some do extremely move appetites; some do nou"rish so, as divers do live on them, without any other “meat; who live very long. So for meats, we have 66 some of them so beaten, and made tender, and "mortified, yet without all corrupting, as a weak heat "of the stomach will turn them into good chylus, as "well as a strong heat would meat otherwise prepared. We have some meats also, and breads and "drinks, which taken by men enable them to fast long after; and some other, that used make the very flesh of mens bodies sensibly more hard and tough, and their strength far greater than other"wise it would be. 66 r 66 "We have dispensatories, or shops of medicines; "wherein you may easily think, if we have such variety of plants and living creatures more than you "have in Europe, (for we know what you have,) the simples, drugs, and ingredients of medicines, must "likewise be in so much the greater variety. We "have them likewise of divers ages, and long fer❝mentations. And for their preparations, we have "not only all manner of exquisite distillations and separations, and especially by gentle heats and per"colations through divers strainers, yea, and sub"stances; but also exact forms of composition, whereby they incorporate almost as they were na"tural simples. 66 66 66 "We have also divers mechanical arts, which you "have not; and stuffs made by them; as papers, "linen, silks, tissues; dainty works of feathers of "wonderful lustre ; excellent dyes, and many others: "and shops likewise as well for such as are not brought into vulgar use amongst us, as for those “that are. For you must know, that of the things "before recited, many of them are grown into use "throughout the kingdom; but yet, if they did flow "from our invention, we have of them also for pat"terns and principals. "We have also furnaces of great diversities, and "that keep great diversity of heats; fierce and quick; "strong and constant; soft and mild; blown, quiet, 66 dry, moist; and the like. But above all, we have "heats in imitation of the sun's and heavenly bodies "heats, that pass divers inequalities, and, as it were, orbs, progresses, and returns, whereby, we produce "admirable effects. Besides, we have heats of dungs, "and of bellies and maws of living creatures, and of "their bloods and bodies; and of hays and herbs laid up moist; of lime unquenched; and such like. In“struments also which generate heat only by motion. "And farther, places for strong insolations: and "again, places under the earth, which, by nature or "art, yield heat. These divers heats we use, as the "nature of the operation which we intend requireth. 66 "We have also perspective houses, where we "make demonstrations of all lights and radiations; "and of all colours; and out of things uncoloured "and transparent, we can represent unto you all “several colours: not in rain-bows, as it is in gems "and prisms, but of themselves single. We represent " also all multiplications of light, which we carry to great distance; and make so sharp, as to discern "small points and lines: also all colorations of light : "all delusions and deceits of the sight, in figures, magnitudes, motions, colours: all demonstrations "of shadows. We find also divers means yet un“known to you, of producing of light originally from "divers bodies. We procure means of seeing objects "afar off; as in the heaven and remote places; and represent things near as far off; and things afar off as near; making feigned distances. We have also helps for the sight, far above spectacles and glasses ❝in use. We have also glasses and means, to see "small and minute bodies perfectly and distinctly; "as the shapes and colours of small flies and worms, "grains, and flaws in gems, which cannot otherwise "be seen; observations in urine and blood, not other"wise to be seen. We make artificial rain-bows, "halos, and circles about light. We represent also “all manner of reflections, refractions, and multipli"cations of visual beams of objects. 86 66 66 "We have also precious stones of all kinds, many " of them of great beauty, and to you unknown; crystals likewise; and glasses of divers kinds; and amongst them some of metals vitrificated, and other 66 "materials, besides those of which you make glass. "Also a number of fossils, and imperfect minerals, "which you have not. Likewise loadstones of prodigious virtue; and other rare stones, both natural " and artificial. "We have also sound-houses, where we practise "and demonstrate all sounds, and their generation. "We have harmonies which you have not, of quarter"sounds, and lesser slides of sounds. Divers instru"ments of music likewise to you unknown, some "sweeter than any you have; together with bells and "rings that are dainty and sweet. We represent "small sounds as great and deep; likewise great "sounds extenuate and sharp; we make divers "tremblings and warblings of sounds, which in their "original are entire. We represent and imitate all "articulate sounds and letters, and the voices and "notes of beasts and birds. We have certain helps, "which set to the ear do further the hearing greatly. "We have also divers strange and artificial echos, reflecting the voice many times, and as it were "tossing it and some that give back the voice "louder than it came; some shriller, and some "deeper; yea, some rendering the voice differing in "the letters or articulate sound from that they re"ceive. We have also means to convey sounds in "trunks and pipes, in strange lines and distances. 66 "We have also perfume-houses; wherewith we join also practices of taste. We multiply smells, "which may seem strange. We imitate smells, making all smells to breathe out of other mixtures "than those that give them. We make divers imi tations of taste likewise, so that they will deceive 46 any man's taste. And in this house we contain "also a confiture-house; where we make all sweet"meats, dry and moist; and divers pleasant wines, "milks, broths, and salads, in far greater variety than you have. "We have also engine-houses, where are prepared engines and instruments for all sorts of motions. "There we imitate and practise to make swifter mo |