which, fee the Transactions of the Royal Society) the Covers whereof are press'd down by the Ponderosity of the Water, which presses so hard upon the Eye-lid, whose Springs are but small and weak, that 'tis impof. fible for it to raise it self against it. As for the Perfon's not being able to shut his Eyes under Water, we might fay, 'twas the Water got in between the Lids, which hinder'd the Under-Lid from rifing, and joining the Upper; without which 'tis impossible to shut the Eye. And here would be a very fair Account of the Business.

- But the Mif chief is, that all this while there is not one Word of the Matter of Fact true; and so there's an End of a fine Hypothesis :For, let any one make the Experiment, as he may easily do in a Bason of Water, (much more effectually than Sir Nicholas's learning to swim on the Table-Board) and he'll find that he may either put his Eyes shut under Water, and open 'em there; or shut them afterwards, when he puts them under, open; nay, open and shut 'em as often as he pleases.

Q. Why the River Save at Belgrade runs flower at Mid-day and Mid-night, than at other Times, the Caufe being neither Reflux nor Stop of Current by Wind, or otherwise? And why the faid River and the Danube run together, as by Experience they are found to do, and yet their Waters not mix, the Danube running uppermost, and the Save under, feeing 'tis not in the least unctious? VOL. III.

A. These would seem two very great Wonders, if the Querift had not been fo kind to quote his Author: He tells us, he had 'em out of Sir H. B's Voyage into the Levant; which being well confider'd, we believe there is very few Readers will expect any further Answer - Only, as to the latter of the two, this may be observ'd out of Dr. Burnet's Letters, that the Story of the River passing through the Lake Lemain, in the fame nianner these two are faid to run, without mixing, is a perfect Fable.By which, if there were any need, we might give a good Guess at the Truth of the other, without going so far to disprove it.

Q. What's the Reason that the greatest Wits are generally Sits?

A. Because there's no great Wit, as the Proverb has it, without a Mixture of Madness; that is, those People who in this Age have refolv'd to be call'd Wits, are such as have vast Fancies, which perhaps even without their so much indulging and giving them the Reins, would be too strong for their Reason; but that being done, whereas they ought rather to take the Counsel of Phœbus to his young HotBrains.-

Parce puer Stimulis, & fortius utere loris.

They grow entirely Masters, run away with the poor Wits, as those Fiery-mouth'd Fades did with Phaeton, and throw them headlong into the greatest Extravagances and when they

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they have spent their Spirits
in whatever wild Actions they
can think on, when all the
Briskness of Life is run out in
Froth, what remains must of
Necessity grow vapid or aiger,
while Reflexion on their Folly
stupifies and stuns them, and
they can find no Ease or Quiet
to their Minds, but by keep-
ing them still as much as poffi-
ble in the same Humour.

Q. If any thing Temporal may
be made sure?

A. Yes, what we give away
for the Relief of the Brave and
Miferable.

Q. I bang'd a Cat lately in
my Garden full of Kittens, and
when she was a dying, the Kit
tens cry'd within ber. 1 demand
whence they had Air to make that
Sound?

A. We have had this Ques-
tion before, however it being
a diverting Point, I shall fur-
ther add, The more cruel
Rogue

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- you for your
Pains, thus with one Cord to
destroy a whole Generation.
But to answer your unanswer-
able Question. The Truth of
Fact we easily believe, the same
Accident having sometimes hap-
pened to human Births. But
that there is Air in the Body,
none ever questioned..
Wind is a Degree more than
Air, or Air compressed
this we aresure is in the Body-
because it comes out on't. But

nor

this you'll say, is, not to talk
like an Anatomist
would it be very civil to do so,
only we'll say, that Nourish-
ment being convey'd to the
Fatus, Wind may be also, and
in Effect is, as we see by the
Child's being often injur'd by
such windy Nourishment.

Q. Why Should a Blockhead
have One out of Ten?

A. The Querist is beholding
for that sharp Thought to Mr.
Bays his last Play, as Bays him-
felf stole the only few good
Things there from Taffo's Poem
of the Siege of Ferusalem, -
who being himself reputed a
Blockhead to make a Parfon of,
has railed at them all with or
without Occasion ever fince-
But let the Wit be whose 'twill,
we'll here answer it.
Question is Why should a
Blockhead have One out of
Ten? Our Answer is-For
the same Reason that a greater
Blockhead has the other Nine,
and that is because the Law
gives it him.

The

Q. How long do you intend
to continue your Athenian Pro-
ject, since fome or other may al-
ways be putting in fome Nice and
Curious Questions ?

A. As long as fuch Questi-
ons shall be put in, and perhaps
a little longer, we having fome
Three Thousand upon the File
already, expecting their several
Answers,

Q. Thomas

Inquifition it self, that whenever the poor Spitch-Cockt Fathers agree where to place this rambling Infallibility, it must be either K. Lewis's Gold or K. William's Sword will have the cafting Voice.

Q. I find reported in a History, that Æneas liv'd in the Days of Abdon Judge of Ifrael, in the Year of the World, 2790, and that Dido was Grandaugh. ter to Ethbaal K. of Sidon and Tyre, whose Daughter Jezabel was married to K. Ahab; so that by this Eneas must have lived long before Dido, and all the Historians and Poets fabulous, in what they relate of their Acquaintance and Amours; whether of the Two is more probable ?

A. The best Chronologers and Historians on this Question inform us That Ethobaal, or Ithobaal, or Juthobaal (for by all those Names he is call'd) had a Grandion, whose Name was Metimus, who had two Sons, Pygmalion and Barra, and two Daughters, Eliza or Dide, and Anna. That Pygmalion having murder'd Sichaus, Didi's Husband, for the Sake of his Treasure, as Justin and others tell us, Dido in the feventh Year of his Reign failed into Africk, and built Carthage, which happened by Computation an Hundred Forty Two Years after the building of Solomon's Temple, which was about fome Two Hundred Eighty Nine Years after the Destruction of Troy, – when Æneas was in a bad Condition to make a Lover of, for he must have been rotten in his Grave

and then,

A. 'Tis not said in any Translation that we ever yet saw, that the Calf was reduc'd to Ashes: It was indeed burnt, or thrown into the Fire, and melted out of that Form and Shape whereunto Aaron had reduced it; as our Translation has it, stamp'd to Powder; that is, ground or filed it as small as poffible, and so strewed it upon the Water; when as the Jews say, by the drinking thereof, the Bellies of those who had been guilty of Idolatry immediately swell'd, and their Faces were discolour'd, much as in the Case of the Waters of Jealousy, and thereby were discovered to the Lea vites. The Hebrew makes it plain. ויטחו עד אשרדק Et moluit usque quo comminuit. The Septuagint much to the fame Purpose, Κατέλεσεν αυτὸν λεπτόν, Contrivit eum minutim, Groundit very small: The Syriack Version, Limavit eum Lima, quoad commiC4