CONTENTS
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Prefatory Note by the Editor v
PSEUDODOXIA EPIDEMICA
The Seventh Book:(continued):
1. Of the Forbidden Fruit, 1
2. That a Man hath one Rib less then a Woman, 5
3. Of Methuselah, 8
4. That there was no Rain-bow before the Flood, 11
5. Of Sem, Ham, and Japhet, 15
6. That the Tower of Babel was erected against a Second Deluge, 17
7. Of the Mandrakes of Leah, 19
8. Of the three Kings of Collein, 25
9. Of the food of John Baptist, Locust and Wild Honey, 27
10. That John Evangelist should not die, 29
11. More compendiously of some others, 36
12. Of the Cessation of Oracles, 39
13. Of the death of Aristotle, 42
14. Of the Wish of Philoxenus, 49
15. Of the Lake Asphaltites, 52
16. Of divers other Relations, 56
17. Of some others, 65
18. More briefly of some others, 74
19. Of some Relations whose truth we fear, 81
HYDRIOTAPHIA AND THE GARDEN OF CYRUS (1658), 87
Epistle to Thomas Le Gros, 89
Epistle to Nicholas Bacon, 93
Hydriotaphia, 97
The garden of Cyrus, 145
The Stationer to the Reader, 211
CERTAIN MISCELLANY TRACTS (1684), 213
The Publisher to the Reader, 215
1. Observations upon several Plants mentioned in Scripture, 218
2. Of Garlands and Coronary or Garden-plants, 281
3. Of the Fishes eaten by Our Saviour, 286
4. An Answer to certain Queries relating to Fishes, Birds, Insects, 289
5. Of Hawks and Falconry, 286
6. Of Cymbals, etc., 301
7. Of Ropalic or Gradual Verses, etc., 304
8. Of Languages, and particularly of the Saxon Tongue, 307
9. Of Artificial Hills, Mounts or Burrows, 322
10. Of Troas, etc., 326
11. Of the Answers of Apollo at Delphos to Crœsus, 333
12. A Prophecy concerning several Nations, 342
13. Musæum Clausum, or Bibliotheca Abscondita, 350
A LETTER TO A FRIEND (1690), 367
POSTHUMOUS WORKS (1712), 395
Repertorium, or some Account of the Tombs and Monuments in the Cathedral Church of Norwich in 1680, 397
Miscellanies:
1. An Account of Island, alias Ice-land, in 1662, 427
2. Concerning some Urnes found in Brampton-Field, in Norfolk, in 1667, 430
3. Concerning too nice Curiosity, 437
4. Upon reading Hudibras, 438
CHRISTIAN MORALS (1716), 439
Dedication, 441
Preface, 442
Christian Morals, 443
Notes on certain Birds found in Norfolk, 513
Notes on certain Fishes and Marine Animals found in Norfolk, 526
On the Ostrich, 540
Boulimia Centenaria, 544
Upon the dark Mist, 27th November 1674, 545
Account of a Thunderstorm at Norwich, 1665, 548
On Dreams, 550
Observations on Grafting, 555
Corrigenda, 559
Index, 561
PLATES
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En sum quod digitis Quinque, to face page 97
Quid Quincunce speciosius, " 147