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ftitution, died in the firft Paroxyfm. Thofe Fevers rage violently at Bandar-Abaffi, when the Wind blows from the Mountains of Gammeron: The Air is then as hot as if it came out of a burning Furnace. When that Wind blows a long Time, there is fo great a Mortality, that a dead Body might be found almoft in every Houfe. The Author believes,' that were it not for an oppofite Wind, which rifes fometimes on the other fide of the Gulph, every Body would die in that Town. When the Sweat comes out in the firft or fecond Paroxyfm, it lafts for fome Days, provided the fick Perfon obferves a good Regimen. There is hardly any other Excretion, that can cure the Disease. But if a good Regimen is not or cannot be carefully obferved, (as it frequently happens,) the Paroxyfms return upon the fick Perfon, and prove as bad and more dangerous thàn they were at firft. It happens fometimes that the fick Perfon falls into a Confumption. At other Times the Humours occafion feveral Obstructions in the mufculous Parts of the Buttocks, and Thighs, and in the Calf of the Legs, where they form Impoftumations. The fame Humours occafion alfo a fort of Swelling all over the Skin, (call'd Root-vont, in the East-Indies,) or a great many Blifters attended with many Boils.

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ARTICLE VIII.

CHRISTIANI GRYPHII, Rectoris olim apud Vratiflavienfes Magdalenæi, Apparatus, five Differtatio Ifagogica de Scriptoribus Hiftoriam Seculi XVII. illuftrantibus. Lipfiæ, apud Thomam Fritsch. MDCCX.

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An Introduction to the Knowledge of thofe Writers, who have illuftrated the Hiftory of the XVIIth Century. By CHRISTIAN GRYPHIUS, late Rector of Magdalen-College at Brellaw. Leipfick 1710. in 8vo. Pagg. 599. Sold by Paul Vaillant, in the Strand.

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GAVE Notice of this Book in the First Volume of these Memoirs, Art. LXXVII, and mentioned fome few Particulars contained in it. A further Account of that Work, which is lately come into my Hands, will not be unacceptable to the Lovers of Hiftory. M. Gryphius fhews in his Preface what fort of Books are neceffary to write the Hiftory of the XVIIth Century, and what other Helps are requifite to undertake fuch a Work. His Introduction confifts of XIX Chapters. In the Firft, he mentions thofe Authors, who have writ a general History of the laft Century, and those who have publish'd Monthly Relations, Collections of Original Pieces, Abridgments, Chronological Tables, Genealogies, c. He proceeds to those, who have given an Ac

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count of the Hiftory of Germany and Bobemia. The following Chapters concern Spain and Portugal; France; Great-Britain and Ireland; the Low-Countries; Switzerland; Italy; Hungary, with the Neighbouring Kingdoms and Provinces; Poland; Denmark; Sweden; Mufcovy; the Turkish Empire, and Tartary; Perfia; the Empire of the Great Mogul, and other Kingdoms in the East-Indies; China and Japan'; Africa; and America.

The Author mentions, not only thofe Writers, who have publifhed the Hiftory of each Country, but alfo those who defcribed particular Provinces and Towns, who writ Geographical and Genealogical Books, who published Original Pieces, and Letters. Laftly, he is fo particular as to take in Travels, O rations, Poems, Publick Solemnities, &c.

This Work is a very ufeful Repertory; and it were to be wifhed that M. Gryphius had given his Judgment about several Books, which he only mentions. I fhall infert fome of his Obfervations. 1. The Knowledge of the Latin and French Laaguages (fays he) are not fufficient to write a General Hiftory. Whoever goes about fuch a Work, must also underftand Italian, Spanish, and English. "Those are

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very much mistaken, continues the Author, who fancy "there is nothing of Worth to be found in Eng"land, but what concerns Divinity, or perhaps Philo"fophy". Nimis enim, meo quidem judicio, aberrant, qui putant, apud Anglos nihil aliud eximii, quam in Theologia aut forte Philofophia quærendum esse. I fhall make it appear in its proper Place, that, "the English have wonderfully illuftrated the Hifto66 ry of their Nation in their own Language". The Author might have added, that England has produced feveral Learned Criticks, and other Men diftinguished by their Erudition, fuch as Mr. Dodwell, Gataker, Dr. Hammond, Bifhop Pearfon, Mr. Selden, Archbishop Uber, &c. not to mention those Learned Men, great Mathematicians, Eminent Phyficians,

c. who are now an Ornament to this Nation. 2. M. Gryphius does very much commend a DiffertatiVol. IV.

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on of Boeclerus, entiruled, De utilitate ex Hiftoria univerfalis contextu capienda. That Piece is grown fcarce. 3. He takes Notice of the Republicks printed by the Elzeviers, and fays they have been collected without any Judgment. Those Descriptions are very indifferent; there are only fome few that are good. I fhall occafionally obferve, That the Defcription of Switzerland by Simler is one of the best Pieces inferted in that Collection. 4. Our Author fpeaking of Moreri's Dictionary, fays it is ftill full of Errors, and that he has found above a Hundred and Eighteen Mistakes in one fingle Article, viz. in that of Germany. I look upon that Dictionary as a Work of great Ufe to have a general Notion of Things; but one cannot depend upon it for Particulars. 5. M. Gryphius recommends these two Books for the Hiftory of Germany, viz. Michaelis Herzii Bibliotheca Scriptorum Germanicorum, published at Erfort in 1679: And Samuel Rachelii Introductio ad Fus Publicum Germanie. Amfterdam 1685. in 12. 6. Those who defire to have an excellent Chorography of Germany, ought to provide themfelves with Martin Zeilerus's Itinerarium, the firft Part whereof came out at Strasburg, 1632. in 120. and the fecond in 1640 They were both Reprinted in 1674. A fmall Book of the fame Author, De Imperii Germanici X. Circulis, is very useful; and this Defcription of the Circles, is more Methodical than that which he has inferted in his Itinerary. 7. Whatever concerns the Hiftory of Holftein may be found in John Mollerus's Introductio ad hiftoriam Ducatuum Slefuicenfis & Holfatici. 8. M. Gryphius informs us, That Pufendorf never denied in earnest that he was the Author of the Book entitled, De Statu Imperii Germanici, published under the fictitious Name of Severinus de Monzambano Veronenfis, 9. The Notitia Imperii by Boeclerus publifhed at Strasburg in 4to, and Reprinted in 1690. in 8vo. is written with great Judgment, and contains feveral Things not to be found any where else. 10. The Author obferves that an exact Catalogue of the fmall Pieces, publifhed from the

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beginning of the Reformation to the Death of Luther, has been made by the Duke of Wolfenbutel's Order.

Among those Books that have been omitted by M. Gryphius, I fhall only take Notice of Two. Pirard, whofe Travels are very Curious, does not appear among the Travellers of the XVIIth Century men tioned by our Author. Nor do I find in the Lift of the Descriptions of feveral Towns in Italy, an Account of the Republick of St. Marin publifhed by Gabriel Naudé, who dedicated it to his Friend la Mothe le Vayer. That Piece is very fcarce. I fhall infert a Paffage, wherein that Book is mentioned; and I fhall do it the more willingly, because it contains fome Particulars, that may divert the Readers. "I will inform you upon this Occafion, of what "Gabriel Naudé, that excellent Library-Keeper †, "told me upon his Return from the fecond Voyage "he made in Italy. Having defired an Inquifitor of "that Country to license a Book which he defign"ed to publifh; that Inquifitor required from him "that he fhould correct thefe Words, Virgo fata eft, "and inferted this Cenfure in the Margin of the "Manuscript, Propofitio hæretica; nam non datur Fa tum. In another Place, upon these Words, hoc "detrahit fidem Cajetano, the Inquifitor writ this Marginal Note, Propofitio fcandalofa; nam Cajetanus mortuus eft in fide. And when Naudé print"ed his Account of the Republick of St. Marin, "which he dedicated to me; That Inquifitor find. ing in the Epiftle Dedicatory that the Author faid,

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* La Mothe le Vayer. Letter CX. Pag. 906. Paris 1662.

He was Library-Keeper to Cardinal Maxarin.

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