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at the time of the year Did shed their wool or coat which was an exceeding.
fine furr or wool and the wind blowing Gatherd it together into Great heapes or
cocks. these mr. Henshaw supposd might be a sort of Indian /goats/ cow calld by the
Spaniards Vaccuneos. or Quercanadoes ^ /these were vsed in Polosi. Described in De Laet/ - He further added that he was
soe confident there was noe north west passes that he sayd he could Demonstrate
that Hudsons bay & the South Sea were 1000 miles Distant:


Dr. D. Cox Related an expt. and obseruation of his made vpon snowwater
vizt that euaporating or boyling away about fourty or 50 gallons
to one he found it of a Lixiuiall Colour. this he Let stand for
some monthes after wch. the Liquor began to shoot into stiria . . .
. . . which stuck all about the Insides of the Glasse in the forme
of starrs .wth. many Points of a greyish colour though the snow
was very pure. this though in the form of salts was not salt but a
kind of Fibrous substance. As also that niter Reuiued from Spt
of Niter & alcalj will shoot into hollow hexedricall figures more
curious then common niter and forme also starrs of six points.


Mr. Haak propounded Mr. Dauid Hannisius Bibliothecarius to
the Duke of Hannouer as a candidate to be Elected into this society
As also Mr /Iohn/ Vande Bamde Esq.

A Booke was produced here for the society by Dr. Grew being on
Recieud from Mr. Georgius Held. being a catalogue of the Bookes
of Fogelius Library. together wth. a sheet intituled Program
ma in Funere Nobilissimj Veri D mart Fogelij Phil: & med
D. Et P. P in Gymnasio Hamburgensi. It was Deliuerd

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