affiftance and co operation in encountering the most dreadful adventure I ever yet had occafion to experience in the whole courfe of my life, Should I ever be fo fortunate as to obtain any further light refpecting this intricate affair, (and you may reft af. fured that I will exert my utmost en deavours to obtain fatisfactory infor. mation, at fome future period,) I shall confider it my duty to communicate the particulars to you. On your fide I requeft the fame, in cafe you fhould be beforehand with me, in your difcoveries meanwhile, accept of my best wishes, and whenever you call to mind the twenty-third of September 1750, let the Danish Lieutenant have a place likewife in your remem. brance." After a journey of five days, we arrived at the feat of the Count of Einfiedel, the father of my pupil. And here (continued Hermann, addreffing himself to Cronheim) I ceafe from being myself an actor in the eventful scene. The remainder of this wonderful hiftory, as I have al ready informed you, is contained in a written account tranfmitted me many years ago by my former pupil the Count of Einsiedel. You will find it replete with events far more interesting and furprizing than any you have yet heard; and when you come to the catastrophe, you will be forced to acknowledge, that however extraordinary particular occurrences may feem ; however much they may appear to favour of the marvellous, (and mar◄ vellous they certainly are) they contain nothing but what may and will be fatisfactorily explained, without any recourfe to fupernatural agency." Founded in fact, and fanctioned by experience, it is to be hoped, that this hiftory, if it should ever be deemed worthy of being prefented to the pub. lic, will meet with a more favourable reception, than exploded romances of giants and enchanters; than fairy tales, or Perfian fables; which by being def titute of probability as well as truth, muft prove infipid and disgusting to every reader of fentiment and taste. CURIOUS RECIPES. To drive away Flies. BERYTIUS, the Grecian, taught men to drive away flies with his whip "If (faid he) you fteep hellebore and orpiment in milk, and fprinkle the places where flies come, you will either kill or drive them away. Allum pow. dered with origanum, and mingled with milk, will do the fame: whatever things you anoint with this mixture are fecure from flies. Alfo bays bruifed with hellebore, and infufed in milk, or honey and water, is good for this ufe; for with the fprinkling of this they are killed as with venom, or elfe they will fly away, and never come again. To preferve Things from being burnt by Fire, Take the white of eggs and alum, and befmear a cloth with it, and wash it with falt-water, then dry it, and no fire will burn it. Or take red arfenic and alum, and grind them, and mingle them together with the juice of house. leek and bull's gall, and anoint your hands with it; if you take a red hot iron out of the fire, it will not burn you. Alfo, if you take a loadstone, itching powder, the huckle-bone of a ram, trong vinegar, marfh-mallows, beat them well together, and anoint your hands with it, and no fire will hurt them. ( 129 ) PALMISTRY. (Concluded from Page 93.),. These following Aphorifms, and answerable Characters in the Figure foregoing in the Hand of Women, denote Luft, and commonly Whoredoms. 1 22. A LINE grofs, and crooked from the root of the little-finger to the menfal, denotes a perfon of light be. haviour, and moft commonly a whore. 23. Lines chequer ways in the mount near the wrift of the right or left-hand, denotes women fuperlative: ly lustful, with infinite appetency and defire to love the company of men, and so luftful as to delight in nothing more than variety, and not fatisfied in ftuprating, and proftituting themfelves, but chiefly if these be of various form and colour. 24. Little red puncts or points in the root of the little-finger, clearly denotes whordom and bawdy, and the more they are, the more unfatiableness is fignified. 25. A cross in the mount of the hand, near the wrift, and the vitalline, whose branches being interfected by another line, declare the most of wickedness in a woman, fhe is fuper. lative in whoredom. 26. A thick, dark rednefs of the kin in the face, not clear, implies great luxury, and argues a woman to be given to gluttony and drink, and the inore it is of this nature, the more the is luxurious. 27. The Via Lactea or cingulum veneris in the hand of a woman, denotes her to be difpofed to venerial pleasures. 28. The table-line forked at the end towards the fore finger in a woman, fuch is, or will be, a cuckquean or lemmon. VOL. III, 29. The natural-line forked in the end towards the liver-line, denotes a light perfon. 30. The vital-line, in the fuperior part red, and crooked, fignifies lux ury. 31. The fifter of the vital-line, upon the mount of the thumb, long and red, is the fignal of one that is whoreifh. 32. The mount of Venus high, and elevated with a multitude of crofs irregular lines, is a fign of lightness. 33. The table-line small and forked, and the mount of Jupiter eminently rifing, in the root of which are little marks like pricks, differenced a part, ufually fignify a man to have more than one wife, and a woman to have more than one husband. 34. A little cross between the first and fecond joint of the fore-finger, denotes great ftrength, and defire tò luxury, and the man to be a mastuprator. 35. Two or three itars or more, upon the mount of the thumb near the arm, denote defamations, and accufations, by reafon of women: let fuch be the more wary of their company. 36. The line called Via Lactea, in both hands, confpicuous and plain, is a very great fign of effeminacy. 37. The tubercle, or mount of the thumb, craticulated like a gridiron, or chequer-work, fignifies that perfon fhall bring himself to poverty and want; the fame if the like figures be upon the mount of the little finger. 38. A line extended from the wrist over the palm of the hand, towards the little-finger, called by the Arabians Via Lactea, croffed, or cut with many lines, or with one as a crofs, apparent. ly fhews great damages, loffes, ruins R in commodities, and ill fortune by means of women and imprisonment, as has been too often experienced. 39. Black spots in the nails oftentimes denote imprisonment, as alfo declare great cares, vexations, affronts and difdain. 40. A ftar or gridiron on the root of the finger of Saturn, threatens fervi tude and captivity. 41. The line of Saturn, paffing 'from the wrift quite over the hand, to the root of the finger of Saturn, and croffed by other lines, it threatens anxieties, flights, perfecution, imprifonment, and accufations, and finally whatever can conduce to a wretched, miferable life. 42. A fperical figure in the end of the thumb near the nail, (as in the former figure,) denotes the perfon to be a thief,and threatens hanging. 43. The table line ending between the middle finger and the fore-finger in the hand of a woman, fignifies death in child bed, or grievous danger. cus accidents. 44. A groís line or lines between the little-finger and ring finger, indicates great pains, and difficulties in child-bed; but if there be any fraction in the vital-line, or that the naturalline have fractions in it, or be evil difposed, she certainly dies in child bearing. known by their hands if they have a femicircle like a C. on the mount of the Sun: befides, this notes him to be guilty of moft bad qualities. 50. Many lines fmall, fcattering, or conglomerated together in the mount of the thumb, declare infidelity. 51. Two lines, circling the thumb, in the latt joint, without incifion, argue a perfidious perfon, the fame if they mutually cut each other. 52. The table-line crooked, and bearing an unequal distance from the natural line, declares infidelity. 53. The fupreme-angle reticulated nec ways, acute or a feparate, prenuntiates infidelity. 54. Lines like fcales, of a gridiron much duplicated on the mount of jupiter, threatens imprisonments and pertecutions, and mott commonly by means of clergymen, or church affairs. 55. Many lines grofs, and inordinate, diforderly scattered up and down the mount of the thumb, demonitrate an ungrateful perfon, and one that will never be true to his friend. 56. If you would judge of the virginity of any perfon by the hand, look in her hand while fhe is fafting; if the Ines be graceful, fmail and pale, fhe is a virgin; but if broad, ruddy, and fracted, infallibly she is corrupted. 45. A line grofs and red, between the index and middle finger, as in the Of Eafy, Quick and Comfortable Labour foregoing figure, prefages death in child-bed. 46. The palm of the hand narrow and ftraight, threatens much danger in child-bed. 47. The table line fmall, hairy, and interfected with lines, fhews great danger in child bed. 48. The triangle evil formed in the hand of a woman, with interfected lines, prenuntiates peril of death in child bed. 49 Ungrateful perfons are above all to be avoided, feeing ingratitude is the greatest crime, and fuch perfons are in Child-bed. 1. Clear ftraight, and ftrong lines in the hand, having for the most part a trine proportion, and keeping proper terms and pofitions, are a good prefage, that a woman hall bear children with much facility and little pain. 2. A long large and due proportionated palm, denotes great facility in child birth. 3. A triangle, as in the figure, well difpofed, in the hand of a woman, in dicates eale, and great facility in la bour. Signs of Dangerous Labour! 4. The fifter of the line of life fair, and continued from, near the fupreme. angle, towards the wrift, has good fign of eafy labour and long life. 5. Few and ftraight lines in the mount of the thumb, fignify good la bour and long life. 6. The line of Saturn ftraight, and well coloured extending from the wrift to the menfal line, paffing through the triangle of the hand, making a neat angle, prefignifies eafy delivery, and that woman fees her grandchildren or great grandchildren. in child-bed, or grievous labour and hard travail, especially if most of the lines be small, and of ill-proportion. 2. A grofs line, fingle, or forked between the ring-finger and the littlefinger, (as in the following figure) is a fignification to a woman of dolorous pain and hard labour, that violence will be offered to nature, or fhe will die in child bed; the greater and grof. fer the lines are, the worse the fignifi cation. 3. A line grofs and red between the index and the middle finger, to a woman, prefages death in child. bed. 4. A crofs or two at the end of the natural-line; either against the middlefinger or the little finger, intimates death, on the next child fhe bears. 5. The liver-line not keeping a due proportion, but croffed with other lines, denuntiates to a woman death in childbed. 132 Properties obferved through the whole Climate. Prognoftication by all ronomy, is divided into two greatest and most principal parts: the fir, which is called general, refpecs whole nations, and countries, and cities; the other, which is termed particular and genethliacal regards every man fingly. Therefore feeing there are two parts, it is fit we fpeak first of the more univerfal: for the general events have caufes more neceffary and greater than the particular; and therefore the stronger nature rules over the weaker, and particulars are comprehended under generals. So that it is neceffary that they who would fpeak of particulars and fingulars, do first treat of thofe which are more general. And again univerfals be divided into whole countries and cities, and that respects whole regions, this cities; and that hath a greater cause and fuch as is periodical, as of wars, peftilence and famine, or earthquakes and inundations, and fuch like: but this hath a lighter caufe produced in certain times, as in mutations of ferfons, or their alteration more or lefs in winter heats or winds more vehement or remifs; and of plenty and carcity and fuch like. That ought here to precede which regards whole nations, and is produced by greater caufes, because it is more general than that which con'fiders cities, and that which is brought to pass by a lefs cause. In this confideration, two things are required, viz. the familiarity of the twelve figns of the zodiac, and the ftars to the climate, and the fignifications produced in certain feafons, in proper places, according to the ecliptic conjunctions of fun and moon, and according to the tranfits of the planets, their rifings and ftations. Therefore we will propofe the natural reafon of the fympathy of thefe; fpeaking alfo in fhort about the properties, when only obferved in whole nations, as to their manners and bodies, according to the congruity of the ftars; and of thofe things which have properly a natural cause there. Annotations. By ecliptical con. junctions of the fun and moon, the author intends eclipfes of the fun only; which is worthy of obfervation. CHAP. II. Of the Properties obferved through the whole Climate. The properties of nations which are under whole parallels and angles, are divided by their respect to the fun, and the circle paffing through the middle of the figns. For of the earth inhabited by us, lying under the north quadrant, they who are under the more fouthern parallels, I fay those parallels from equinoxial to the fummer tropic, feeing they have the fun in the centre, being fcorched by it, are black, and have hair thick and curled; of a grim countenance, thick ftature, hot by nature, and favage manners, because of the continual heat. They are commonly called Ethiopians; and the heat of the countries appears not only by them, but also by the ftate of the air about them, and by other liv. ing things.. They which are under the more northern parallels, I fay under them fubject to the Bears, feeing their ver tical place is far diftant from the zo. diac and heat of the fun; they are for this caufe cold, and of much moisture, which nourishes exceedingly, and is exhausted by no heat: they are white of colour, have long hair, and great bodies and ftature, fat, cold of temper; and their manners wild, because of the continual cold. The conftitution of the air about them, animals and plants agree with the men: they are called for the most part Scythians. They which are between the fummer tropic and the bears, feeing they have not Sol in their vertex, nor far |