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A Journey from Norwich to Colon
have ssatter Roofs, or else are covered with a fine black Slat or Ardoise.
Upon this, and all other Towers of the Town, a Trumpet is sounded
at Midnight, and in other parts of the City at six a Clock night and
morning. At eleven a Clock, the time of going on to the Exchange,
there is good Musick at the Stadthuis, given by the Earl of Leicefler.
They make good Harmony also every hour in playing upon their
Chimes and Bells in most Steeples. And there is a Musick-house or
Entertairiing-house, where any one is admitted for a Stiver, hears mosl
forts of Musick, sees many good Water-works, and divers motions by
Clock-work, Pictures, and other Divertisements.
During my slay at Amflerdam, I had the opportunity of seeing di-
vers Learned Men, and Persons of Note. Dr. Ruifh sliewed us many
Curiosities in Anatomy, as the Skeletons of young Children, and Foetus’s
of all Ages, neatly set together, and very white ; the Lymphatick ves-
fels so preserved, as to see the valves in them. A Liver excarnated,
Showing the Minute vessels, all Aiming and clear. The Muscles of Chil-
dren dissered and kept from corruption : entire Bedies preserved ; the
face of one was very remarkable, without the leas! spot or change of
colour or alteration of the lineaments, from what might be expedted
immediately after death : he had then kept it two years, and hoped
it would so continue. Dr. Swammerdam ssiewed us divers of his Ex-
periments which he hath set down in his Treatise De Refpiratione•
and a very fair Collection of Insects brought from several Countries ; a
Stagg-fly of a very great bigness; an Indian Scolopendria, or Forty-soot;
a ssy called Ephemeron, and many other Curiosities. Old Glawber the
Chymist ssiewed us his Laboratory: And we received much civility
from Blasius the Physick Professour who hath wrote a Comment upon
The Jews live more handsomly and splendidly here, than -in any
other place : Their chief Synagogue is large, adorned with Lamps os
Brass and Silver. We happened to be there at the Feast of their Hew-
year; so that there blowing of Horns, shouting and singing was not
omitted : Some of them understand divers Languages. I saw one
Mofes di Pas, a Learned young Man, and Orobio, a Physician of Note.
And I was sorry to see divers here to professthemselves publickly Jews,
who had lived at least reputed Chriflians, for a long time in other
places One who had been a Francifcan Friar thirty years ; and ano-
ther who had been Professour some years at Iholouze, and before that
Physician to the King of Spain. Juda Leo, a Jew, hath taken great
pains in making a Model of the Temple of Solomon, of Solomons House,
the Fort of the Temple, the Tabernacle, the Israelites encamping, and
other Curiosities. I was present at the Circumcision of a Child ; which
is performed by thrusting a Probe in between the and Prrzputi*
um, and separating it, or dilating the Praputium, so as the inward Skin
may be drawn forward as well as the outward ; then by applying an
Inflrument joynted like a Carpenters Rule, or a Secflor, the Skin is
held fafl: beyond the Glans, and with a broad Incision-knife, or Cir-
cumcision-knife, the Foreskin is cut oss close to the Instrument; and
what remains' of Skin is immediately put back, the blood flopped
with Powders, and a Plaister applyed; the Relations and Acquain-
tance singing all the while, whereby the cries of the Infant are less
heard.
Leaving
A Journey from Norwich to Colon
have ssatter Roofs, or else are covered with a fine black Slat or Ardoise.
Upon this, and all other Towers of the Town, a Trumpet is sounded
at Midnight, and in other parts of the City at six a Clock night and
morning. At eleven a Clock, the time of going on to the Exchange,
there is good Musick at the Stadthuis, given by the Earl of Leicefler.
They make good Harmony also every hour in playing upon their
Chimes and Bells in most Steeples. And there is a Musick-house or
Entertairiing-house, where any one is admitted for a Stiver, hears mosl
forts of Musick, sees many good Water-works, and divers motions by
Clock-work, Pictures, and other Divertisements.
During my slay at Amflerdam, I had the opportunity of seeing di-
vers Learned Men, and Persons of Note. Dr. Ruifh sliewed us many
Curiosities in Anatomy, as the Skeletons of young Children, and Foetus’s
of all Ages, neatly set together, and very white ; the Lymphatick ves-
fels so preserved, as to see the valves in them. A Liver excarnated,
Showing the Minute vessels, all Aiming and clear. The Muscles of Chil-
dren dissered and kept from corruption : entire Bedies preserved ; the
face of one was very remarkable, without the leas! spot or change of
colour or alteration of the lineaments, from what might be expedted
immediately after death : he had then kept it two years, and hoped
it would so continue. Dr. Swammerdam ssiewed us divers of his Ex-
periments which he hath set down in his Treatise De Refpiratione•
and a very fair Collection of Insects brought from several Countries ; a
Stagg-fly of a very great bigness; an Indian Scolopendria, or Forty-soot;
a ssy called Ephemeron, and many other Curiosities. Old Glawber the
Chymist ssiewed us his Laboratory: And we received much civility
from Blasius the Physick Professour who hath wrote a Comment upon
The Jews live more handsomly and splendidly here, than -in any
other place : Their chief Synagogue is large, adorned with Lamps os
Brass and Silver. We happened to be there at the Feast of their Hew-
year; so that there blowing of Horns, shouting and singing was not
omitted : Some of them understand divers Languages. I saw one
Mofes di Pas, a Learned young Man, and Orobio, a Physician of Note.
And I was sorry to see divers here to professthemselves publickly Jews,
who had lived at least reputed Chriflians, for a long time in other
places One who had been a Francifcan Friar thirty years ; and ano-
ther who had been Professour some years at Iholouze, and before that
Physician to the King of Spain. Juda Leo, a Jew, hath taken great
pains in making a Model of the Temple of Solomon, of Solomons House,
the Fort of the Temple, the Tabernacle, the Israelites encamping, and
other Curiosities. I was present at the Circumcision of a Child ; which
is performed by thrusting a Probe in between the and Prrzputi*
um, and separating it, or dilating the Praputium, so as the inward Skin
may be drawn forward as well as the outward ; then by applying an
Inflrument joynted like a Carpenters Rule, or a Secflor, the Skin is
held fafl: beyond the Glans, and with a broad Incision-knife, or Cir-
cumcision-knife, the Foreskin is cut oss close to the Instrument; and
what remains' of Skin is immediately put back, the blood flopped
with Powders, and a Plaister applyed; the Relations and Acquain-
tance singing all the while, whereby the cries of the Infant are less
heard.
Leaving