[PREFATORY NOTE]

The frontispiece to this volume is reproduced from a photograph kindly lent to me for the purpose by Mr. Charles Williams, F.R.C.S.E., of Norwich, whose note upon the measurements of Sir Thomas Browne’s skull appeared as Appendix ii. in the edition of Browne’s Hydriotaphia and Garden of Cyrus, published in the ‘Golden Treasury Series,’ by Messrs. Macmillan and Co., in 1896.

The identification of the author quoted in the margin of page 233 (Book v. Chapter x.). I owe to Mr. W. Aldis Wright.

C.S.

May 1, 1904.

[CONTENTS]

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[ PSEUDODOXIA EPIDEMICA]
[The Third Book(continued):]
[11. Of Griffins,]1
[12. Of the Phœnix,]4
[13. Of Frogs, Toads, and Toad-stone,]13
[14. Of the Salamander,]18
[15. Of the Amphisbæna,]22
[16. Of the Viper,]26
[17. Of Hares,]33
[18. Of Moles, or Molls,]42
[19. Of Lampries,]46
[20. Of Snayls,]48
[21. Of the Chameleon,]50
[22. Of the Ostrich,]62
[23. Of Unicorns Horn,]66
[24. That all animals of the Land, are in their kind in the Sea,]73
[25. Concerning the common course of Diet, in making choice of
some Animals, and abstaining from eating others,]		76
[26. Of Sperma-Ceti, and the Sperma-Ceti Whale,]85
[27. Compendiously of Sundry Tenents concerning other Animals,
which examined, prove either false or dubious,]		89
[28. Of some others,]103
[The Fourth Book:]
[1. Of the Erectness of Man,]109
[2. Of the Heart,]113
[3. Of Pleurisies,]116
[4. Of the Ring-finger,]117
[5. Of the right and left Hand,]122
[6. Of Swimming and Floating,]134
[7. Concerning Weight,]138
[8. Of the passage of Meat and Drink,]142
[9. Of Sneezing,]144
[10. Of the Jews,]147
[11. Of Pigmies,]155
[12. Of the great Climacterical year, that is, Sixty-three,]160
[13. Of the Canicular or Dog daies,]183
[The Fifth Book:]
[1. Of the Picture of the Pelecan,]202
[2. Of the Picture of Dolphins,]205
[3. Of the Picture of a Grashopper,]207
[4. Of the Picture of the Serpent tempting Eve,]209
[5. Of the Picture of Adam and Eve with Navels,]212
[6. Of the Pictures of Eastern Nations, and the Jews at
their Feasts, especially our Saviour at the Passover,]		215
[7. Of the Picture of our Saviour with long hair,]224
[8. Of the Picture of Abraham sacrificing Isaac,]226
[9. Of the Picture of Moses with horns,]227
[10. Of the Scutcheons of the Tribes of Israel,]229
[11. Of the Pictures of the Sibyls,]233
[12. Of the Picture describing the death of Cleopatra,]235
[13. Of the Pictures of the Nine Worthies,]237
[14. Of the Picture of Jephthah sacryficing his daughter,]241
[15. Of the Picture of John the Baptist,]245
[16. Of the Picture of St. Christopher,]247
[17. Of the Picture of St. George,]249
[18. Of the Picture of Jerom,]251
[19. Of the Pictures of Mermaids, Unicorns, and some others,]253
[20. Of the Hieroglyphical Pictures of the Egyptians,]258
[21. Of the Picture of Haman hanged,]260
[22. Compendiously of many questionable Customs, Opinions,
Pictures, Practices, and Popular Observations,]		264
[23. Of some others,]276
[The Sixth Book:]
[1. Concerning the beginning of the World,]283
[2. Of mens Enquiries in what season or Point of the
Zodiack it began,]		300
[3. Of the Divisions of the seasons and four Quarters
of the year,]		302
[4. Of some computation of days and deductions of one part
of the year unto another,]		309
[5. A Digression of the wisdom of God in the site and
motion of the Sun,]		313
[6. Concerning the vulgar opinion, that the Earth was
slenderly peopled before the Flood,]		319
[7. Of East and West,]338
[8. Of the River Nilus,]349
[9. Of the Red Sea,]363
[10. Of the Blackness of Negroes,]367
[11. Of the same,]380
[12. A Digression concerning Blackness,]387
[13. Of Gypsies,]395
[14. Of some others,]397