[32] Some pretend to have found what they call a material Thunder-bolt; such a one is said to have fell on the Turkish Mosque at Adrianople A. D. 1693; and such are shewn in the Museums of Princes. At Copenhagen they have a large piece of metallick Substance, said to be Thunder-bolt.

[33] A Word used by our Sailors, for the Grout is made of it.

[34] Moquissin is a name given to any thing they think has an incomprehensible Virtue. V. Geographic. Atlas.

[35] The Portuguese, who trade hither from Erasil, chuse their Cargoes all Boys and Girls, if they can, as more ductile for Conversion; there being Fathers appointed to instruct them in their Creed, and to baptize them, on their arrival; but then they are Papists.

[36] Made of a peculiar Earth from Germany, and bear (those that are good) the most intense heat.

[37]

There’s but the twinkling of a Star,

Between a Man of Peace and War.

Hud.

[38] At this Place I would observe, in relation to heaving the Lead, that there is a Nisus in Bodies of Water from below upwards, which makes ’em to sink neither so fast, nor so direct, at any considerable Depth, as near the Surface; all at 200 Fathom or less, being bottomless; i. e. unfathomable.