which refer you. As to the Pallidity of Thunder, we Anfwer, that in the Summer-time the Heat being greater, muft neceffarily draw up those bituminous Exhalations a great heighth This is more : than probable, if we confider how low the Clouds fly in Winter, and how high they mount in the Summer. Now Thunder, the farther it is off us, the lefer Noife we must hear, and diftance abates the fiery Flashes, making 'em appear paler. Some believe the reafon of this palenels may arise from a greater Compofition of Sulphur than ordinary in the Ingredients which make up Thunder.

Q. Whether Bees make that humming fort of a Noife with or with their

their Mouths Wings ?

bling jarring Motion, much like that which happeneth while we blow on the Teeth of a Comb through Paper: And so if the Head or other parts of the Trunk be touched with Oyl,the Sound will be impaired, if not destroyed; for thofe being alfo dry and Membranous Parts, by Attrition of the Spirit, do help to advance the Noife, and therefore alfo the Sound is ftrongest in dry Weather, and very weak in a rainy Season, and towards Winter, for then the Air is moist, and the inward Spirit growing weak, makes a more languid and faint All fion upon the Parts.

Q. Whether, when a Horfe Neighs, is it a rejoycing, or becaufe be is angry?

A. We believe neither, but rather a defire of Company, as A. A very Learned Inquirer is frequently. Observ'd in all into Nature, has made Experi- the Race, both Old and ments, and afferts, That with-Young. out either Head or Wing they Q. One of a Sanguine Comwill make fuch a Noife. Ariftotle plexion being married to a Hus determines in fundry places, but band, who foon after went upon more exprefly in his Book of a Trading Voyage for Virginia, Refpiration, that this Sound is intending to return back in a made by the Illufion of an in- Tears Time, but hath been abfent ward Spirit upon a Pellicle or from her for above thefe Eight ittle Membrane, about the Pre-Years; neither bath he received · inct or Pectoral Divifion of any Letter from him in all the heir Body. But 'tis not only time, and not knowing whether he he beating upon this little be dead or alive, but by uncertain lembrane by an inward Spirit, reports, fhe defires to be inform'd s Ariftotle affirms, or the out- whether he may lawfully marry ard Air, as Scaliger conceiv-another Man? ah, which affordeth this hum- A. The Law provided foring Noife, but: moit of the merly feven Years, after which her Parts may alfo concur it fuppos'd the Man dead; but reunto, as will be manifeit; fince Navigation and Commerce r.if while they Hum, we lay are fo well lettled, a leis time r Finger upon the Back or o-is requir'd, because Advices

er Parts wo fooll food

Confederacy, or an Affignation of Warlets, a kind of Wizards very frequently in that Coun

trey.

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Q. What ought one rightly to think of fuch Diffenters as have freely Communicated with the Church of England, to keep the Places into which they were put by the late King James, who now will by no means hold Communion with the fame Church?

certain th n formerly: If the means by lawfully, according to our Law, he may Marry another; but we can't Promife her Free by the Law of GOD, which no where makes fuch an Exception. We have feveral Inftances of this Nature as theHusband's diftance and filence for above the time the Law has prefcrib'd, and of the Woman's marrying another, after which her fift Husband came home, and Sued A. We ought to think, 'tis the other for his Wife, and upon poffible the keeping their Places Tryal, the Judges gave her the was not their only or great ReaLiberty of taking which she wou'd; fon for Communicating, but and of fome that have had their fomething elfe; 'tis better and Wife again, and turn'd the fecond Husband off. Thus the Law has done, we can fay no more; but defire her to fecure the Quiet of her Confcience, and advile with the Ecclefiaftick Authority, fince the other gives her the Liberty fhe wants.

Q. There being a frange Story of an Apparition to fome Soldiers in Scotland, mentioned in feveral News-Letters, you are defired to give your Opinion of it?

fafer to err upon the right hand, than upon the left; 'tis the proper Office of a Christian not to Fudge others but himself. There are fo many Actions which appear ill, that will one day be found good; and fo many Actions which appear good,that upon a Juft Tryal will be found otherwife; that 'tis impoffible to Cenfure other Mens Actions now, without Condemning our

Own.

A. In the Effay of recording Q. A Young Gentleman falling Memorable Providences, we have in Love with a young Lady, (not an Instance much like this: At inferiour in her Fortune to his Meenen there appear'd a Perfon own) and Married, but through all in white, with a Mitre on fome little Difcontent his Relati his Head, being follow'd with ons took at it, after they were two more in black, after him Married, bawk'd his Fortunes; came Four or Five Squadrons, and hers being not sufficient to who drew up as if they intend- maintain 'em both equal to their ed to storm the Town; the former Credit, in Cafe of FruiSouldiers there refuled to ftand [tion, he being willing not to make their Centry, having been fo em both miferable together, with affrighted that fome fell down fuch Children as probably they in their Potts, thefe Spectres might have, is willing to deny appeared every Night in June, himself the Enjoyment of her, till 1682. but as to the prefent In-fuch time as his Fortune shall give ance 'tis very probable that him a better Proffect of living is an .dle Story, or at molt a equal to their former Credit.

The

The Gentleman making it a Mat-own Choice in any other Estate: ter of Confcience, Whether fuch For it may be laid down for a a Refolution be a Sin, feeing certain Maxim, That fuch PerPovidence brought 'em together fons as take themselves out of without any unlawful means? GOD's Protection, are always at 4. We believe not the Sepa-a lofs, and know not how to dif ration for a time (both con-pofe of themselves. fenting) to be a Sin; But if it Q. Sometime fince, being in be continued, 'tis our Opinion, Company with fome Merchants of That 'tis the ready way for a great Maryland, a Difcourfe_arofe of many fins Industry is a Gentlewoman of that Countrey, bless'd always with a Competency, who being with Child from the and 'tis expected we fhou'd be- Quickning to the Birth, whenlieve nothing more to be ablo- ever he brushed against any thing, lutely neceffary; and to this ber Cloaths would feem all on end we are taught to Pray for fire, and crackled, the Reason of OUR DAILY BREAD: this being guess'd at, a Wager was If this World were to be our aid, and it is refer'd to your End, our Eternity of aboad, it Society, what the meaning on't wou'd be worth our trouble to houli he? Pray let us have be follicitous, and provide ac- [your Aufwer as foon as you cordingly We think a Di-can

ftruft of GOD's Providence a A Hiflories affd us feveral greater Sin than is generally be-uch Inftances: Perhaps 'twas liev'd: We cou'd not diftruft amething of this Nature that good Man in his Promifes, and is recorded of Alcxander. The why the Author of goodneis, is Royal Society have taken Noa Riddle. It would be a difmal tice of it in their Tranfactions: Politick in a Common-wealth, But the true Reafon we conthat upon Loffes or Poverty ceive to be this- There is a Families fhou'd feparate; Lefides, Phosphorus (or a Chymical Prethe Temptations that fuch Per-paration) both liquid and dry, fons are detervedly left to by Artificially made of Urine or GODAlmighty;for if I dare not Blood, which will fire by the believe him, he may justly Touch or Motion of the dr Punish my Bafenefs with a and 'tis very prob. ble that Nagreater Unhappinels. 'Tis our ture had fupply'd thele Perions Judgment, that they imme- with uch a Quality, without diately ad uit their meaner Cir- the help of Artificial Chymitry, cumftances, and lay afide that and that by the Tranpiration, fear of being defpis'd for not Effiuvums, or Streams of there Leing greater than others; for caline Particles, the Cloths of Opinion and the Prejudices of the Perfon might imbibe the Custom, have put a very undue Quality too, which by Touch of Character upon the Stations of Air would have the Effect men

Q. In Delaun's Prefent State of London, he tells us of a Difemper fome time fince, called Sudor Anglicanus, or the Sweating Difeafe: Your Thoughts upon it?

A. The Polonians us'd to Plat their Hair, and tye it up, and

tion of Miracles,
deny.

Q. What are
Chiromancy?
A. 'Tis (perha
Nonfenfical No
World, in that
usually taken, viz

Q. What is th Jülus that falls Trees in May?

A. 'Tis not the

there was once a Difeafe a-will happen by it. mongit 'em,call'd Plica Polonica; for their Hair bring cut or broke, it bled, and they dyed upon it; but we fuppofe this and the Sudor Anglicanus, were no Na-ale, but Nodus tural Diftempers, but as immediate Diftempers from Heaven as the Plague or Peftilence.

that is, (as far diftinguith) not part of Generatio of Augmentation ways near a Branches; but this Point is not a native, having re our pofitive Ani Next Spring, wh make more partic A. If from the Vapours of about it. the Succus Nutritius, which are Q. Does the Sa more or lefs, according to the in Trees? abundance or deficience of that A. We think w Juice, bleeding, refrigerating, ry pofitive in the and a contrary Dyet, are pre-everal Reafons; valent to remove 'em- If that Obfervation v from Obftructions, obferve a in all Bodies that Temperate Feeding; if from ftraitnefs of Vellels, ufe thinner Dyet, if the Querift knows not which of thele, let him Practice as if he wou'd Cure 'em all at once.

Q. Something rifes from my Heart in my fleep, and goes up to my Head, when I ftruggle it goes away, and the next day, after Three or Four of thefe Fits, I have a strange Dizziness in my Head QueryThe Reafon thereof?

Effence by fuction Suppofe we ask Queftion about t our Head; the An that fo long as the on, there is Augme never no receding to Tis fo in all An which fubfift by N Crea-ons, and not by ar Power in themfelv initance, a Perfor death, which com

Q. What is it that caufes the Noife in Thunder ?

A. Nitre.

Q. What is the ftrongest ture in the Univerfe, confidering its bulk?

A. Perhaps the Ant.

The

Inftance of declining Trees in Q. Whether the Variegation in Winter; the radical Moiflure Pants, as Holly, Phirciren, that is preferv'd by the laft Sup-Myrtle, &c. be a Defect or ply of Nourishment, returns Virtue in Nature?

Q. What is the Ufe of OakApples?

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not again into Bread, Meat, 4. A Vertue certainly, as Drink, but exerts in Power to different Ways of working i long as the fpirituous Part is a-one, and the fame Power is a ble to fuitain the Offices of Mo-Vertue; only this is certain, tion; and fo it is in Trees, that the Leat Colours argue the whofe Sap never difcends, but greateit Perfection, am.ngat exerts its Power, either in In-which, perhaps, Green is the creafe or Germination, or fup-Beft, and moit Noble of, all plying the Defects in Nature, Colours in the Universe. and when that Vigour is fpent, the whole Nature of the Tree languifhes, till reliev'd by frefh Nutrition the next Spring. We had another Queition by another Hand, about the different fructifications of Trees, to which we Answer, That one and the fame Trunk will give Nutriment to Apples, Pears, and all forts of Fruits that have Pippins in 'em, but not to floned Fruit, as Plumbs, Apricocks, &c. which are of a different Species; this we have experi-Stone broken afunder for building,

enced.

4. The fame as Werts, Corns, Moles, &. which are cicences or Def.cts in Nature. Q. Your Thoughts about the Nature of Bights?

4. Som: Countries call it Batting, 'tis an Effect of auch Winds as are brought from the moit Nitrous Climates.

Q. In the Fifi Volume of your Athenian Oracle, I find you base feen, a Quarry, or a "Rock of

and in a foud Place of it there Q. Whether cutting off the lay a Toad, wib juft som enough bottom Root in planting of Trees for her Body, and no more (as is ufual) does not more burtI defire to know how the Toul than goid? came there?

4. No, the nearer any thing A. 'Tis very probable, that is to individuation, the nearer falling into fone Chink where it comes to the Nature of im- the cou'd not get out, the Rock material Beings, and by Confe-might clote upon her by degrees, quence is the more perfect; asas it grew: Thus Keyes, Stones, for Inftance, a long Sucker acts not only to maintain it felf but the whole Trunk for which it acts, but a fhort Sucker faves to much for the Nourishment of the Trunk as it fpares, compar'd to a longer.

and other things, have been ford in the Veins of Mines, which as the Mines encreated, were enclosed; for Rocks, Mines, &c, do thrive and en creafe in the Ground, as well as Trees, &c above it.