Estridge The Head and Bill of a Stone-pecker of Germany A Legge of a Casoware or Emen A Legge of a Dodo a great heavy bird that cannot fly it is a bird of the Mauricius Islan Several sorts of Egges of bird fishes and serpents The Nest of a Bird in Africa built with a long Neck on a Tree to secure himself and young ones from Apes and Monkies A Nest of a Bird made like the secret parts of a man by a little Bird in Brasil to secure him and his young ones from the Serpents A Nest of another Bird made like another thing and of other materials it is also built on a tree but of a Countrey distant from Brasil above 3000 miles An other Nest of a little Bird of India but no body does know of what material it is made yet the great persons of that Country eates it for good meat A large bush of black feathers that for the Rarity and beauty doth exceed that which the master of these Rarities did see of the great Turks or Sultan at Constantinople IV. FISHES A Sea Elephant or Rock fishes head as big as a bushell This sort of fish loves to be near the Rocks therefore the Seamen when they espy the fish come not near the place for fear of a Rock under water The Head of a Sea-sheep of Caepe de Vert in Africa the fish is good meat and the head very like a sheeps head A Sea-Lyons head for its forme it is a species of doggefish but is very good meat especially the liver A Crack-Shell-fishes head this fish lives upon shell-fishes and hath three great teeth in the inner part of his mouth with the which he grinds the shells to small peeces it is a fish of America A great Sea-Catts head of China A great Sturgeons bead of the German Ocean The Sturgeon hath no teeth but receives his food by a round hole that is under his head by which he sucks in his food A Head and Tayle of a Dolphin the Dolphins tayle is different from all other fishes for it growes thwartwise the better to rebound out of the water as he does often against a storme A great Sword-Fishes head and Sword of the black Sea it is one of the swiftest fishes that swims and is excellent meat slic'd broyled with oyle peper and salt and the juice of a lemon on it The Scull of a Sea-Morce of Greene land this fish does sleep hanging on the Rocks by the great teeth of the upper jaw and so is taken in Norway A strange fishes head that did belong to the King of Bohemia An Extraordinary great Tortises head of East India it is called the Logger-headed Tortoise A fish called the Dagger fish for the forme of the head it is a species of Sea Vnicorne The Head of a fish of Madagascar this fish moves the upper jaw and not the lower The Head of a fish that is found in fresh rivers as the Danubius in Hungaria and the Elbe in Saxe it is a fish with a round great head and small eyes and two long hornes like a beard and is a good tasted fish and is called Siluti Whole Fishes A Shoveller or Blew Sharke very perfect given by Doctor Eastgate Physician â—n Popler A Monk-fish Shark the Sharke does ingender like fourfooted creatures on land and has ten or twelve at a litter When their young ones are in any danger they receive them in their stomach and then disgorge them out again A Spotted Dog-fish of the Coast of France A Shovell Dogge fish it is a species of Sharke his eyes are seated afore distant one from another It was given by his highnesse the Duke of Holstein A great Frog fish of the Baltick Sea this fish is as big as a great hog A Sea Otter this Creature is an Amphibium and hath his forefeet like sinnes but seated in the midst of his body like a crosse his skinn is hairy like down or silk it is so soft and bright A Sea Leopard so called from his spots it is a species of Seale and is also an Amphibium A little Sea Calfe or Seale which also participates of both Elements and hath foure feet but short the two hinder broad and no eares the better to endure long in the water Olaus the Great writes that this creature is the most unconstant to his female of any which is the cause often times of his death for the fisher men to take him counterfit the braying of a female they are common in the Finland Sea A Sea Wolf it is a creature that hath the strongest teeth and bites the hardest of any for his bignesse for his head being cut off from his body living a quarter or half an hour after is able to bite ones hand off A Sea Ape for his forme and is called the Joynt fish for its nature for if one holds ones hand afore his head when he is living it makes the joynts of hand and arme to cracke this fish is found in Brasil A little Tortoise called the Hawks-bill-Tortoise A Sea Tortoise hath 3. hearts and it is of a threefold nature for it lives in the Sea like a fish it layes egges in the sand by the shoar side to be hatcht by heat like a fowle and it crawles one 4. fennes like feet and hath flesh and blood like a 4. footed beast A lesse Tortoise newly hatch't out of his egge all Sea Tortoises are good meate when they are in season A great Sea Tortoise it is a Creature much addicted to generating for the male will remain on the female ten days or more to the great impoverishing of himself to carry on but to the bettering of the female in her laying of foure or five hundred of egges at a time in a hole she makes in the sands then covers them and so they are afterwards hatched by the Sun A Male Conny fish armed with a hard shell and two hornes or prickles before and two behind A Triangular fish it is a female Conny fish larger then the male the better to contain her spawne and is also armed with the like hard shell but not with prickles Nature forcing her to follow the male for her defence A long narrow fish called the Sea Pelican for the forme of his head Also it is called the Sea Dart for the forme of his body and and tayle that is like the head of a barbed arrow A great Sea Porcupine fish of the West India A Hedge-Hog-fish It is a species of the Sea Porcupine only the prickles are shorter It was given as an addition of these Rarities by his Highnesse the Duke of Holstein A Sea Mouse so called for the forme of his head and beard this fish contrary to the nature of other fishes shricks in the water and out of the water like a mouse but for his sinnes he is something like a Serpent in colour and is about a foot long but is very good meat A great horned Soal fish It is like
a large Soal but hath his Mouth right a fore with one great horne between his eyes and both the sides of his body of one colour different from the Nature of other Soales that are brown of one side and white on the other A Saw fish Vulgarly called the Sword-fish but is not This fish is the enemy to the Whale for with the prickles of his weapon he torments the Whale so much that the great monstrous fish kills her self by swiming too hastily without her Pilot-fish against the shore her body being so fat and heavy and her skin so thin A little prickled Dog fish of the German Sea A Sturgeon of Holland A Sturgeon of an other species such as is found in Italy A Parret or Angrey fish of Brasile it is a species of Globe-fish which cannot swim in a storme and therefore fills his maw with stones to lye steady in the bottom of the water A Sucking fish of Ice land it is a species of Lump-fish that cannot swim likewise in a storme but sticks to the Rocks with a seeming mouth that is under the fore part of his belly A Poyson fish of East India so venemous that thirteen men in a ship dyed by eating of one of them he is called by some the Sea Hare he is for his forme something long and foure square and is a species of Conny-fish An Hermit fish of the bottome of the Sea it is a creature that liveth in the shell of an other fish the fishermen makes use of them to baite other fishes withal A Souldier fish it is a creature that liveth on Mountains or highland in the Caribea Islands under the rootes of trees but once a year cometh to the Sea side to spawn in vast multitudes and then they possess themselves of the shells of other fishes and so march back again with their plundred shells A Woodcock fish of the the Baltic Sea his head is like a long bill full of sharp teeth and for the length it is counted a Sea Serpent A Prickled Tead fish of India being a species of Globe fish A 4. Prickled fish of East India All other fishes though greater are afraid of him for his prickles that he hath before and behind therefore they will not come near him and he is alwayes taken alone An Angel fish so called for his beautifull colours that he hath under water this is of the West Indias A great flying-fish or Sea Swallow that flyes sometimes aboard the ships and thinking to escape a fish that is his adversary becomes a good friend to man by being good meat when well dress'd A Trumpet fish of the Baltic Sea it is a kind of Sea Serpent and somewhat resembleth the Needel fish A Smith fish it is likewise called S. Peters fish the one half is the head and the other half is the body it was given by his Highnesse the Landgrave of Hessen A Wave fish so called for the manner of the growing of his scales A Weapon fish of Bermudos this fish hath a long sharp bone on his back to defend himself which he raiseth or letteth fall in a hollow case when he will An other sort of Weapon fish of the West Indias A fish called the Sea cocke of the Spanish coasts A little fish of Guiney called the Cataphractus that hath two prickles before that are venemous A Sun fish for sleeping in the Sun it is also called the Moon-fish for shining in the night to the amazement of Seamen that sees so great a light this fish is of a strange forme for 't is like a head onely but hath a very little mouth for so great a body A great Netted Stare fish for his forme it is one of the sensiblest creatures of the world and hath but one eye It was given by Sr. Thomas Wardner Governour of Sr. Christophers Island A very rare great Starre fish of India this fish feedes on flat shell fishes and his mouth is in the Center of his body A large Comett or Sixfingers fish of India it is a species of Starre fish A little Crowned Starre fish of the Coast of Denmarke A little round boded Starre fish with long narrow feet or poynts A Flat flowered Starre fish of the German Sea A five pointed little Starre fish of the Coast of Holland A little Starre fish with twelve points taken on the Coast of England A prickled Crab called the Sea Spyder which ha's little clawes on his feet like birds clawes It was given to the augmenting of these Rarities by the Learned Petrus Carisius the King of Denmark's Resident in the united Provinces A King Crab of the Moluccos Island this creature has the eyes on his back and is also called a Sea Spyder for the resemblance A great Sea Crab. A Witland Crab it is like a deaths head and lives in the ground like Connies in a burrow in some Islands of the West Indias An other species of King Crab or Sea Spyder but as light as a sheet of Paper yet it is as big as an ordinary face An Icus Marinus that is called the Sea Orange A Torpedo or Benumming fish for it taketh away the sense of feeling from the fisher mans hands when he is in his Net He is of Africa and did belong to the King of France A very perfect great and true Remora of India whose property is to hinder or stay great ships as they swim it hath on his head many open spaces out of which proceeds a glutinous humour with the which he sticks so fast to any smooth thing that a man cannot well losen him A strange black Plaice from the Sea of Denmark A little prickled Globe Fish also called the Sea Owle for his forme An Hippocampus of the Mediterranean Sea his belly is said to be very venemous An Hippocampus of Brasil of an other sort for he has a little white horne under his head A little Spouting or Fountain fish for it sticks to the Rocks and when one will take him he spouts the water in ones face A strange sort of Oyster that is called the Sentry fish for his nature for he is fastened to the Rocks and most commonly stands open to catch fish for as the fish thinks to eat him he takes his enemy prisoner and then entertaines him as good meat A Navell fish a round slymy mishapen thing that sticks to the Rocks and contracts it self in the shape of a Navell and is a venemous creature A true Purple-fish that sticks to the Rocks and is an insect of the Sea composed of many hard shells layd over one another like the scales of wood-lice I walking by the Sea side to search after the secrets of Nature found one of them in the West India but I wondred at the variety of colours wherewith it stained my hand For first it was green then blew afterwards purple and lastly it became a beautifull Red and taking my handkerchief to my hands it died the same likewise and the colours remaine
in the linnen not to be washed out A Limpet which sticks also to the rocks and is an Insect of the Sea having a flat shell but the creature within is something like a snaile with little hornes and is very good meat A Needle-fish it is a small little long fish of the forme of of a needle A Sea Louse is also an insect of the Sea in Greenland and sticks to the Whale for food Some Sea-fleas when the sea is at a low Ebbe they are found by hundreds under some Rocks and after stormes on the sands by the shore side Some Sea-Scorpions they are insects of the Sea and have six feet like a Scorpion and a long tayle Some Mint fishes they are little round creatures but when they are dry they are flat and mark'd like money A Sea Eye it is a species of the Mint fish round and clear like Gelley but venemous A Paraquito fish of the Adriatic Sea it is a little green fish like a Paraquito but hath small teeth afore like unto a Mouses A little Burre-fish it is green and like a burre that sticks to ones cloathes it is one of the species of Icus Marinus A little fish found in moarish grounds in Swedland it hath a little prickle on the back that is venemous A little Sea Serpent something resembling a Conger but the head is bigger for the proportion of its body A Sea Insect called the Sea-chairs it hath many scales like a wood louse two long hornes and a forked tayle A Water Insect called squilla Fluviatilis or the water Cricket Also many hundred of very rare and beautifull fish shells all different in their formes works or colours and other things belonging to Animals in Chests and Boxes Amongst some of them a very rare Mother of Pearle or the Pearle oyster with an oriential Pearle in the midst and a Carvall fish shell of the Red Sea and two or three species of shells that grow contrary to the nature of all shells in general for they grow towards the left hand Another sort called the Antipathio shell for the Center is on the bottome and the other shells in generall has the Center on the top Parts of FISHES A Ribb of a Triton or Mereman taken by Captain Finny upon the shouts of Brasil five hundred Leagues from the Maine given by Doctor Esgate Physitian The Vein of the tongue of that Whale that was taken up at Greenwich a little before Cromwel's death it is like a vein stocke that is withered A peece of the Skin of the Whale the pizzle eight or nine foot long the Drum-â—panne a tooth a finne of one of the Gills some twelve foot long and the bone that the Whale spouts the water out withall and a neck bone The Tayle of a Sea Cat or stingray it will saw like an iron saw A very great Saw or Weapon of a Saw-fish A Round flat bone of a fish like a pancake An Extraordinary great Lobsters Claw A Great Jawe of a large Tabourein it is a Species of Sharke and hath four or five tyre or rows of teeth it was sent the Master of these Rarities from the West Jndia V. SERPENTS c. A Serpent above twenty foot long of the East India it hath in the upper chap four rowes of teeth this Serpent when he was living could swallow men or beasts A long Narrow Serpent like a peece of narrow hair-coloured Satten edged with white Satten A Beautifull Serpent called Ibaboca of Brasil some ten or twelve foot long A Spotted Serpent of the Island Jamaica this with the three following Serpents was given to the increase of these Rarities by worthy Mr. Powey one of the Royal Society of Philosophers and Treasurer to his highnesse the Duke of Yorke A Gray Coloured Serpent this Serpent being held before the light the skin appears like Net-work A Gold Coloured Serpent for this Serpent skin is like cloth of Gold An other Serpent of India like Cloth of Silver with black spotts A Black Serpent of Virginia it is eaten for good meat A Boitininga or Rattle Snake Nature has formed him with a rattle at his tayle that men might avoyd the danger of his biting for being once bittten by him a Man dyes in halfe an houre unlesse he hath of the rattle snake roote for to apply alittle of it to the offended place and by eating a little of it also therefore the Savages of Virginia seldom travel without it A Viper of Italy A Viper of Germany An Adder of England A little Serpent of Germany A Slow-Worme of Hessen An other coloured little Serpent An Aspe A great Tatoo or Armadillo of the Duke of Orleans it lives under ground like a Mole and is as big as a pretty big dog it is a great Rarity in the East India and a noble present of so great a Prince An Armadillo of the West India that is esteemed good meat there An other sort of Armadillo of the East India that was presented King James for a Rarety A great Crocodile given by Noble Squire Courtine a lover of vertue and ingenuity A little Spotted Crocidile of Egypt A very litle Crocodile as it first came out of his egge A little Aligater of Brasil it is a species of Crocodile A great Lizzard of Africa that is said to be so loving to Man that if the Man be a sleep and in danger of some other creature he will then awake him A great Spotted Lizzard skin that his Highnesse the Landgrave of Hessen gave as a Rarity An other species of Lizard of Numidia or of Arabia it is called by some the land Crocodile A Bâ—â—gelugey it is a creature of some parts of Africa a kind of Lizard that hath great scales like a fish A Câ—â—â—lâ—on of Barbary it is said to live only by the air but it is not so for he lives by slyes and yet he can live long without food his skin being so nervous and very little porous A True Salamander is said to live in the fire as has been too often reported but will live longer in the fire then any living creature of his bignesse for the matter or moisture that proceeds from him condenses and so smothereth the fire as milk or glew doth A Guaena of America it is a sort of Lizard as big as a good Rabett but in those parts held for better meat it lives by the fruits of trees and is so harmelesse that one may take him by the tayle as he is on a tree A Black land Tortoise full of little yellow speeks such as those in Germany or Greece A little land Tortoise of Canada with many other different land Tortoises out of the East and West Indies they are all generally good meat A fair Sincus Terrestris of Egypt it hath four feet like a Lizard but resembles a fish though it be a land creature it is said that one part of his body is cooling but the other part is provocative to man or woman A Coale
Black Toade Frogs with two feet and a tayle Frogs with foure feet and a tayle Two fortes of Scorpions VI. Insects or FLIES A Flie bigger then a Sparrow called the bill Scarabeus A rare great Flie called the Salamander Flie for his colours and that it is like to wrought velvet A great Scarabeus of the Amazones very entire and of beautifull colours A Lanterne Flie of Peru two or three of these Flies fastened to a stick give light to those that travel in the Countrey A Black Elephant Flie for his forme A Buck Flie for his hornes A Leopard Flie for the colours of his spots on his body A Parret-Flie for his shape and for his rare changeable colours A Mole Flie for his feet and for his silken hairy downe A Rich Coloured great Cantharides of the East Indies An Emerauld Flie so called for his rare glittering green colour A Saphir Flie so called for his bright shining blew colour A Musk Flie it is called so for his Odotiferous sent when he is alive A West India Cacaorche An Insect some thing broad but can insinuate himself in the least chinck of a chest to the great offence of men by spoiling of leather or woollen A little broune Scarabeus of East Indies A Rare Dragon-Flie A Rare Butter-Flie of Germany A Rare Butter-Flie of Swedland with several hundreds of other rare insects and Flies all different one from another either in shape or colours THE SECOND PART OF THE CATALOGUE I. VEGETABLES A Sticke that is grown hollow like a nett it was Prince Maurice of Nassaw's Rarity that he brought out of Brasil A Stick that is grown like a knott and is a pipe to play on A Stick like a Crosse A Stick like St. Andrew's Crosse A Stick like a Serpent A Stick or peice of wood grown like the secret parts of a man An other Stick or peece of wood grown as the above mentioned A Stick with two branches grown together it was a Rarity of the Marquesse of Badon A Natural Brush or broom of India A Bagge grown on a tree like woven stuffe as tiffeny or Cobweblawn of India A Blossome of a Suggar Cane A Branch of a Palme tree of the Jew land A great Codde or Blossome of another species of Palme of the West India A Right Cedar fruit with a peece of the branch of one of the Cedars of Mount Libanon An Eare of Corne or Mace of Virginia whereof one graine produces hundreds An Eare of a strange Corne in a Countrey in Affrica whereof one grain produces more then a thousand A great Blossome of the Fox-tayle-plant of St. Thomas de Lovando in Affrica A Limon that represents both the secret parts of an Hermapherodite A Rose of Jerico that is an hundred years old and yet can open so wide that it cannot well be put in ones hat and the next day will be closed lesse then ones fist An Excrescence or plant like a Rubbing brush A Fruit of Brasil that growes with a cover it is called the Apes Nutt because when the fruit is ripe the Apes open it to eate the many kernells that are in it the fruit is thick hard and very heavy and growes naturally with a cover therefore it is also called the cover'd fruit A great Maraca a fruit of India that hath an hard shell like a Nutt but as big as a mans head it is like the scull of a man with the Sutures An other sort of Maraca that growes on a high tree but one cannot well climb on it because the branches are so small and so full of prickles but that does not hinder the ratts from being lickorish of them for if that fruit or Nut falls they make a hole to eat what is in it and the Savages make a strong drink of the sap within but of the shells they make their necessary household stuffe as Cuppes Spoones Dishes and the like A Ganobany fruit of Guiney A Bacbob or great Ganobany given by the King of Sweds Physician this fruit is great and heavy and on the out side it is like velvet A great Gourd in the forme of a Pear A Red Gourd of Guiney An other pretty shap't Gourd A Tomarus fruit of Binney A little double Pine-apple A Cocos fruit whole the fruit and tree afford many necessary things for the benefit of man as Milke Wine Water Oyle Vineger Needles Thread Boards Cordage sayles and other things A Cocos Nut something round representing a face A long Cocos Nut something like a fish in shape A Prickle-Apple of India A large Carab it is a fruit that growes on a high tree in the Caribeis the shell of it burnt casts a sent like perfume and the inward part tasts like dry spic'd bread A Loafe of Bread made of the Cassado-Rotte the sap or moisture of that root is deadly poyson yet it makes good bread for the fire evaporates the malignant nature of it A Silke Cotton Codd such as in China they make their fine paper of it An other Species of Cotton in a Codd of the West Indies A Stinging long Beane of Brasile A Fruit or great Beane like the heart of a Sheepe A long Cassia fruit of Egypt A Fruit called the May-cock it is common in Virginia and the outward part of it is meat there and not the inward A Bunch of Ethiopian Pepper A square thing made of the Cocos Barke to cover the secret parts of Men or Women and it is also in that Countrey their ready mony A Purse woven without a seame of the Cocos fruit A Peece of Wood that turneth water into two colours at once A peece of Wood and part stone together His Majesty King Charles the first did try it and gave it to the owner of these Rarities Two very perfect Mandrakes the one Male and the other Female both of them did grow in Africa they are esteemed of Women in those parts and are found by accident in the feilds by a red flower that the root bears and a long stalk when it is in perfection A Fruit called Genipapa it is of the forme of a Limon but of strange operation for the juice is as cleere as water but a little of it put on ones hand dyeth it of a purple colour but to redouble it with more of the same liquour it makes the place as black as Jett and no art of man can fetch it out but it will grow out of it self in nine dayes and if the hogs eat of it it doth not endanger them but makes their fat of a purple colour II. Sea PLANTS c. A Very fair purple Sea Feather A large gray coloured Sea Feather A fine Limon coloured Sea Fann. A Deep yellow colour'd Sea Fann grown to a great pibble-stone An Iron-coloured Sea Fann as stiffe as Iron wire A Plant or little Tree of Black Horne for the branches being burnt they stink and wrinkle like horne and being put in warm water become very soft but the root or lower part
is hard white stone A very great Trumpet plant that growes in the bottom of the Indian Sea and they make trumpets of it in those parts A Purple Sea Plant given by Dr. Towers of Hamburgh A very rare Sea Plant of two colours A fine Yellow Sea Plant like a branch of small Birch A Plant of the Sea a Rock and a Shell fastned or grown all together A Sea Plant like Heath A Sea Plant like the haire of ones heard A Black Sponge grown in branches like a Tree on a Rock it is a very fine Rarity A very rare Sea Plant or Shrubb with shell fishes growne like fruits on a tree it is esteemed rare and strange A Sea Plant grown on a white Corall A Strange Sea Plant call'd the transparent Corall it is of the Colour of Glue A Branch of the Solid white Corall A Tree of Rough white Corall also called the bush corall it is perfect and rare A White Corall with little double shell fishes that grew in each part of it it is a Rarity that was much esteemed of the Emperour in his room of Rarities A red Corall on the Rock as it did grow A white Corall grown on a Plant. A perfect white Corall called Harts horne Corall A branch of soft Yellowish Corall A branch of black and white Corall called Joynt Corall A peece of Red Corall grown on a shell together A peece of Red and white Corall grown together A great round Sea Stone like a great moushroome or toadestoole A rare Concretion of the Sea with several sorts of shells together A Concretion of Mussells together A Concretion of Stones and Iron together A Stone found in the bottome of the Sea in the forme of an humane face Some of the right Alcionum of the red Sea by which the water of the Sea appears red in the shallow parts of it where that is found Over and above these things mentioned there are in several chests and boxes many hundreds of stones of the Sea plants of the Sea with Corall and Coralins and Alcionums Concretions of things of a different nature and such like which are omitted for brevity sake but upon further encouragement may be declar'd in time III. MINERALS Stones of strange shape and things turned into Stones with Chrystals and precious Stones AN Hungarian Rock of vitriol in the shape of a mans visage A Rock of Copper and Crystall together A Rock of a kinde of Emerauld and Amethist together A Rock glittering like Silver A Rock of Portugal of a strange forme A Rock with Muscle shells A Rock like a bunch of grapes of the Cardinal Richelieu A Rock with whole flat shells of a Mountain in Germany A Rock of a Quarry of stone near to the City of Franckfurd A Rock like a great peece of wax or rosin A Rock of Mosse in stone belonging to the Emperour Ferdinand the third A â—akâ— in stone a Rarity that was esteemed very much by divers persons beyond Seas A Stone like the bottom shell of a great Oyster but never was one A peece of old wood turned to stone yet reserving the colour A peece of old worme-eaten barke of a tree in Stone A peece of old Birch-wood that appears to have been chapt off at both ends turned into stone yet reserves the true resemblance and colour of the perfect wood A peece of Oaken Wood turned into Jasper it is polished on the one side that the grain of the Wood may appear and was sawed off from a peece of Wood like a billet that a Cardinal had in Rome for a great Rarity A Right Eagle Stone it is a true Calcedonyan stone but like a lump of Gumme Tragacant it was the Kings of Marrocco it is a precious stone that is very Rare for that King permits none in his countrey to have any of them but himself as a token of his royalty but yet gives them to eminent persons as a mark of his great favour A great Lapis Ammonis that did belong to the King of France An other great Lapis Ammonis coale black A Yellow stone like Wax that has on it the representation of a vine leaf or flower it is of a glittering substance A great Triangular Stone that hath a representation of trees and bushes A great Jasper stone in a frame it doth represent a moorish ground with rivers trees and bushes An Extraordinary rare Calcedonian stone in a frame it is like a peece of Ice on the ground A Marble stone of the river Arno in a frame the Emperour Ferdinand the third confessed he never saw a rarer for it doth represent a bridge and an old ruinous tower a tree with the bark and birds flying in the Air it was the great Duke of Florences Rarity Another stone picture like an arme of the Sea with Cottages and a Church by the waterside A very rare Stone picture representing clowdy skyes and an excellent rocky Cave Given by the Earl of Pembrock An other very fine stone picture like a ruinous town on a hill An other stone of the same Nature in a frame A very rare stone picture like a City all on fire The Master of these Rarities had it as a rare thing from the Prince Elector of Cullens hands A white stone that does represent a tree as if it was made by art with a pen. Another very rare white Stone that does represent two or three trees also as if they were drawn with a pen. A large peece of Ice glasse but it is something brittle and is a kinde of Gipsum A peece of Crystal like a town built on a hill it is much esteemed by ingenious spirits A nother peece of Crystal very clear and rare that hath in the midst a representation of a mossey figure or statiew with the liknesse of 2 hornes on the head all this representation is but one yet it appears to be 3 or 4 by the reflections of the same natural Crystal A peece of European Crystal very clear A peece of East India Crystal A peece of West India Crystal A peece of Yellow Crystal A peece of Sea-green Crystal A peece of blewish Crystal A peece of bush Crystal A peece of wave Crystal A peece of frisled Crystal And divers other sorts or species of Chrystals that are not nominated for brevity sake IV. METTALS MINERALS c. SEveral sorts of Iron Ore Several Lead Ores Several Tinne Ores Several Copper Ores Several Silver Ores Several Gold Ores Besides Mettals and Minerals growing something rare as Lead and Crystal together Tinne and Crystal together Iron and Cristal together Copper and Crystal together Silver and Crystal together Gold in the midst of a white stone An Iron Bullet in the midst of a Stone A Touch stone and a Metalline substance on the other side like Copper A very strange kind of Mineral held to be Quicksilver that is fixed in his mine for being burnt it evaporates its self into a stinking vapour like to Quicksilver it is something rare