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written in the malabarish Language supposd ^/by the curious writing & pictures/ to be the Bible but
the Language is not yet vnderstood. It is written on the bark of trees
of the Leaues of the palm. 6ly. that the King of Poland being Desirous
to haue an account of the Road the Russes trauell by Land to china -
had sent to his Embassador in Russia Mosco to Inform him ^/thereof/ who had
sent him one that an intelligent person who had been diuers times tht
Iourney and who gaue him a pertinent Description of the manners, speech
warrs & habitations of the people on that Road. that they will /he/ had . . .
al was calld together At Warsaw the Tartars Chalmoucks & greeks
that had been in tartary to vnderstand what they knew /of those parts/. And
propounded seuerall querys ^/to them/. 7ly that one writes from Poland that he -
was informed that in the farthest part of tartary there is a people
which speak Hebrew. 8. he enquires whether the spots in the
sun Lately obserued at Paris haue been seen here. -

Herevpon the seuerall parts were discoursed of. And It was Desired tht
the Letter should be answerd. And that the correspondence should
be renewed wth. mor Baldwin. Inquiry being made whether these
spotts had been here seen it was returned that they had not.

mr. Aston Related that mr mellin had made a Double conuex microscope
glasse which hauing weighd at the tower he found to weigh Lesse
then the 80th. part of a graine; and that he had since perfected
another not a fifth part of that bignesse

Seuerall Experiments were tryed about the rising of Liquors in
small pipes. The Experiments were made by Dipping in a Small
glasse pipe to a certaine Depth into fair water put into an
other a small glasse Iarr or Dish and then marking the height of
the water both wthin the pipe then taking it out ..
wth. the marks vpon it & blowing out all the water in it cauity
it was sunk into brine of water & salt to see how high that would
rise & wth the same care the brine being blown out it was
sunk into Spt. of Wine and againe vpon cleansing in to
Aqua fortis and euery one of these Expts. seuerall times Repea
ted but vpon many tryalls it was found that the heights
of these risings were very vncertaine & varyed euery time
they were tryed, and this soe irregularly that It was not easy
to assigne the case causes thereof, for sometimes the water
rose highest sometimes the Brine sometimes the Aqua fortis. but
the circumstances that caused that variety were not Descouered

Howeuer It was Desired that some farther Expts. should be made the next Day

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