A. In this cafe, the fooner the better; you can ne'er be too well prepared for that Jour ney; nay, twenty to one whether you have any time to make ready, if you don't always keep your Account clear. But that we are unwilling to impede your courfe to Heaven, or we could tell you, This DeathWatch is nothing but a little Worm in the Wall, and that it prefages no more than many of the like Ridiculous Sto

Part, like a Woman; and the
lower Part, like a Bird: But
those that painted them like
half Fishes, never thought of
their firft State, and have had
no regard to that of the Meta-
morphofe. Many of the Mo-
derns fell into this Error, and
went even so far, as to believe
the Syrens were not Fabulous.
And fince St. Jerom believed the
Fauns and Satyrs true, 'tis not
fo ridiculous to give Credit to
the Relations we have of the
Tritons, Nereides, and Syrens: Atries?
leaft, if they were not formed
by Nature, it cannot be doubted
but they were truly in the Poets,
who created them, and gave
them their Being.

Q. What is the best Argument to prove the Being of a God?

A. The Imperfection of Man; for had he had a fufficient Power to have given himfelt Being, no doubt he would have made himfelf compleat.

Q. Who writ the Book of the Judges?

A. There are various Opi. nions about its Author, fome have thought it to be Hezechias, others Eldras; and fome again, that it was a Collection of what each Judge had writ in particular of his own Life.

Q In St. Paul's first Epiftle to the Corinthians, at the third Chapter, Verje 17. are these Words, He that defileth the Temple of God, him fhall God deftroy: Pray, the meaning on't?

4. See the latter part of the fame Verfe, the 6th Chapter, 19th Verse, and 2 Cor. 6.16.

Q. The Ingenious Answers you bave given to several Questions of Importance in Learning, have induced me to defire your Thoughts concerning the following Que

ries:

Suppofing Gravity to act (as it really does) indifferently, at different diftances, and making allowance for the refiance of the Air, whether a projected Body (for Example, a Bomb) de Scribes a Geometrical, or a Me chanical Curve? And if GeomeQ. I have lately beard a Death-trical, give us the Expreffion of watch, and am verily afraid it the Curve: is a Warning for me foon to quit my Earthly Tenement: I am wil ling to go to Heaven; but before I think too seriously on't, I am defirous to bear your Opinion, whether it gives but a short or a long Summons

A. If there were no Refiftance in the Air, a projected Body wou'd move exactly in a Parabola; but allowing for the Refiftance of the Air, the Projectile, defcribes another Curve, which approaches to a kind of

Vol. II. an Hpyerbola, thar has one of before the Old Man's Death, the its Affymptotes perpendicular faid Eldeft Son marries to one to the Plane of the Horizon of the Servants of the Family, But we must beg the Querifts against his Father's Approbation: Pardon, it we don't define ex But after the Business was done, actly what the Nature of that the Father was so far from Curve is, till 'tis a little better diminishing his Son's Fortune known in what proportion the that, with the Confent of the reft Air refifts a Body that is more of his Children, he took 50 1 or lefs diftant from the Sur- ot of each of their shares, and face of the Earth: We fhall gave to his faid Eldeft Son, only add, That the Refiftance because he had married a Wife of the Air being accounted for, worth Nothing. The Father is the Curve that is defcribed fince dead, and the Son has, by does not differ much from a bis Frugality, made a confideraParabola. For upon a Suppofi- ble Addition to bis Eltate. I tion of it being a Parabola, if defire to know, whether he is we calculate the feveral diftan- not obliged or compellable by the ces to which a Mortar Buller Law and Rule of God and Man, may be fhor, for the different Honefly and Honour, to return Inclinations of the Mortar, we sol. to one of his Sifters, (who fhall find the Numbers very being unfortunate in her Marrinear what they are in Pra age) is at present in a low and &ice. mean Condition? Your Opinion may be very ferviceable to the Distressed.

Q Suppofing Bodies to gravitate mutually one upon aso ther, fo that at different diftan

A. There's no forcing him to't; but he's doubly oblig❜d to relieve her by the Law of Nature, as fhe's a part of his Family; and that of Gratitude, face he was willing to ferve him, when it was only for his Conveniency; therefore he'd be very bale to refuse the affisting her in ter Neceflity. And these would be fufficient Motives to a Man that is but morally honeft.

Q. Which is the trueft Church-Man, be that obferves all the Orders of it, in respect both to Dorine and Cere mony, as frequenting, and being very Devout at CommonPrayer, Receiving the

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ments, obferving Baptifm, &c. as by the Church commanded, yet maintains a Correspondency and Friendship with Men of dif ferent Perfwafions? Or one that declares highly for the Church but neglects or very rarely performs any of these Duties; and extreamly exclaims against all Men whatsoever, that are of a contrary Opinion?

very Day its Place of Rifing and Setting, when it is near the Aator.

A. The reafon is this, The Sun every Day describing a Circle parallel to the Equator we are more or lefs fenfible of the difference of the Days, and of the Place of the Sun's Rifing and Setting, according as thefe paralells differ more or less from one another: Now, if the Ecliptick be divided into feveral equal parts, beginning at the Equino&tial point, and paralells be drawn to the Equator thro' every Divifion; thole that are near the Equator; will be found more diftant from one another, than thofe that are from it. As for inftance, If Parallels drawn through every tenth Degree of the Ecliprick, the difiance of the first parallel from the Equator, would be greater than the di

A. There's juft as much difference between 'em, as between Doing and Saying; only the firft is, what we with every one of her Members were, true to his Profeffion, and act as if he were fenfible, that Charity is effenrial to Chriftianity; nay, is more likely to gain Honour and Profelytes to the Church, amongft wife Men, than pure Bigotry will ever do. Whereas 'cis probable, that the laft will only be able to maintain and keep up thofe Prejudices that are too evident aftance of the fecond from the mongst us.

Q. From whence had Alexander's Hörfe the Name of Bucephalus ?

A. Nor, as as fome have thought because his Head refembled that of an Ox; but the Theffalians Banding all thofe Horfes that were Strong and Well-fhaped with the figure of the Plant that the Greeks called Boucranion; Alexander's had the Name of Bucephalus from thence, as being one that excell'd all others.

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firft; and fo the distance of the fecond from the firft, be greater than that of the third from the fecond, and fo on, c. and it will happen that the distance of the eighth parallel from the. Tropic, will be much leis than the distance of the first parallel from the Equator; and confequently, th' the Æquator and the first parallel, cut the Horion at two places, which are confiderably diftant from one another; yet the eighth para. lel, and the Tropic, will car it Q. What is the reason that the very near in the fame place; Sun, when it is near the Tropicks, and to know in what proporShould for a confiderable time tion thefe paralells decreafe, is rife much about the fame Place; a cafe eatily refolv'd by the Do. whereas it very fenfibly alters e&rine of Spherical Triangles.

Q: 'Tis

Q. 'Tis now affirmed by ma- mals, although he obferved them ny, that there are a Multi- to have very near the fame tude of living Creatures in th Form as those of the other Beafts Sperm of Animals; but not ha- had. ving yet bad the good luck to make the Experiment fatisfactorily, I defire the Favour of you to give us the best Account you bave had of any Experiment of that Nature; and in what Quantity they may be fuppofed to

be?

'Tis true, this Objection has been made against the Experiment, That the motion of the parts of the Sperm was only an Effect of Fermentation, and that it does not follow from thence, that each part of this agitated Matter was a living Animal. A. Mr. Leeuwenhoek has been To which Mr. Leeuwenhoek anvery curious in making Experi- fwers, that he diftin&ly perments of this kind, and tells ceived those little Creatures to us, That having taken a Pike, be compofed of all the requifite and fome other Male Fifh, at Parts; and he is fo fully perthe fame time that thefe Fifh fwaded of the Exiftence, Life, Spawn, he perceived in their and almoft infinite multitude of Sperm a prodigious Quantity of thefe little Animals, he mainlittle Animals, which were li- tains, That in the Quantity of ving, and continued moving Sperm that one of these Fish themselves long enough for him might eject in a Year, there is to obferve them three feveral more little living Fishes chan times with his Microfcope, and there are Men in the World: yet reft himself fometime be- To prove which he fuppofes an tween each. He fays, that in hundred Particles of Sperm, every Portion of Sperm, that each as big as a grain of Sand, was about the bigness of al to make a Cubic Inch, and all Grain of Sand, there was above this Quantity of Sperm to be Ten thoufand little Fishes; that multiplied by 15 Cubic Inches thofe of both the Fish were very much alike, and their Bodies much less than the Bodies of the Animals that are found in the Tefticles of Beafts; but their Tails longer and fmaller. He has also made the like Experiment upon a Hare, a Dog, and a Cock, and hath difcovered an infinite number of other living Animals in their Tefticles, which were encompass'd with a Transparent Matter. But the Hare having been dead three or four Days, Mr. Leevwenboek perceived neither Life nor Motion in its little Ani

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Earth, yet to come the neareft, larger than this Province. that poffibly we can, Mr. Leev is believed that there is about wenhoek makes the following a Million of Men in Holland; Computation. fo that if we suppose the other Parts of the Earth as well peopled as this Place, which is not improbable, and fhould multiply 1000000 by 13385, by how many times the rest of the Earth furpaffes Holland, it will give only 13385000000 Men: Whereas there is 150000000000 in all the Seed that is emitted in a Year, only by one of these Fishes