Hearing that an Excellent Astronomer of my acquaintance had oftentimes measurd the hight of Clouds, I enquird of <him>replacing 'it', what hights he had observd them to have, & was answerd that though he had measur'd 18 or 20, ev'n of white Clouds in fair weather, yet he scarce observ'd any <one> to be higher then treecorrect reading is three quarters'ers' altered from 's' of a Mile, & few of them he found to exceed half a mile.

Twenty shillings & somewhat above {ounce} {half} of Sterling Alloy being refind with a pound of Lead, (which weighs neer 4 times as much) weighd after the Operation ended but 4 ounces wanting a drachm.

A very Learned & fully credible acquaintance of mine informd me divers years agoe (,& lately averrd the same thing to me, that in a place in Wiltshire which he namd he saw a Cyons of an Apletree grafted upon a Willow which bore very faire fuite, but when he came to tast of the Apple, thô it seemd ripe enough yet it was almost insipid, & the litle Tast it had it seemed to have borrowd from the sap of the stock not well assimilated or alterd: This Experiment is the more considerable bec: it dos not only show upon how unpromiseing stocks a Graft may prosper but that by Incision a Tree may be made to bare fruite that naturally bares none at all, at least if we may beleive husbandmen & others, who affirme that here in England the Willow=tree bares a kind of Blossomes but noe fruite, & something If I (misremember not,) toaltered from 'with' <the> same purpose is observd by virgil of the same Tree in Italy.

About 3 months before the late great Plague began in London (in the year 1665) there came to Dr. M. a Patient of his to desire his advice for her Husband, & the Dr. haveing enquird what aild him, she answerd that his cheef Distemper was