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Vol.IL to ITALY. 291
year 1425'. It contains many endow’d Col-
leges, with Schools of Divinity, Law and Phy-
sick.
An Inhabitant of LoVain, who happen’d to
be in an Inn where we were, offer’d to carry us
to a Convent a quarter of a league from the City,
where he promis’d to procure us a sight of several
Curiosities, but we had not time to accept of his
Kindness. He told us, that among other things
there was in that Monastery a Genealogical Stem
of the House of Cro«j, by which it appear’d,
that the Head of that Family now living was
defended in a right line from Adam. An Englijb
Gentleman, to whom I related the Story t’ other
day, assur’d me, that he knew several Families
in Wales, who produce I ke Catalogues of their
Ancestors. But don’t ye think they might con-
tent themselves with deriving their Pedigree srom
Noah ? If these Gentlemen had read * Le Perm’s* See g Pas-
Heraldry, who informs us, that Adam bore Three quier) part
Fig-leaves in his Coat of Arms, ’tis probable they 19-
would not make use of any other Scutcheon. Iter 6-
hope we stall meet with some noble Prcatlamites
some time or other.
At Mr. Gutfchovens House, who is a Physician
and great Anatomist, we saw several embalm’d
Bodies, dissered after divers methods, and very
well preserv’d, in which the Veins, Arteries, Mus-
cles, Nerves, &c. are separated and distinguifli’d > •
from each other, so that almost the entire
Contexture of the Parts of a Human Body may
be pcrfedly difern’d. The Veins, Arteries, and
even the lead Fibres, are sill’d with a certain red
matter, which makes ’em appear like so many
Branches of Coral. This is esteem’d a rare
Curiosity.
I muss not forget to mention another Rarity
Wh ich we sa'Wat Louvain. Some Dutch Mariners
V 2 fliew’d
year 1425'. It contains many endow’d Col-
leges, with Schools of Divinity, Law and Phy-
sick.
An Inhabitant of LoVain, who happen’d to
be in an Inn where we were, offer’d to carry us
to a Convent a quarter of a league from the City,
where he promis’d to procure us a sight of several
Curiosities, but we had not time to accept of his
Kindness. He told us, that among other things
there was in that Monastery a Genealogical Stem
of the House of Cro«j, by which it appear’d,
that the Head of that Family now living was
defended in a right line from Adam. An Englijb
Gentleman, to whom I related the Story t’ other
day, assur’d me, that he knew several Families
in Wales, who produce I ke Catalogues of their
Ancestors. But don’t ye think they might con-
tent themselves with deriving their Pedigree srom
Noah ? If these Gentlemen had read * Le Perm’s* See g Pas-
Heraldry, who informs us, that Adam bore Three quier) part
Fig-leaves in his Coat of Arms, ’tis probable they 19-
would not make use of any other Scutcheon. Iter 6-
hope we stall meet with some noble Prcatlamites
some time or other.
At Mr. Gutfchovens House, who is a Physician
and great Anatomist, we saw several embalm’d
Bodies, dissered after divers methods, and very
well preserv’d, in which the Veins, Arteries, Mus-
cles, Nerves, &c. are separated and distinguifli’d > •
from each other, so that almost the entire
Contexture of the Parts of a Human Body may
be pcrfedly difern’d. The Veins, Arteries, and
even the lead Fibres, are sill’d with a certain red
matter, which makes ’em appear like so many
Branches of Coral. This is esteem’d a rare
Curiosity.
I muss not forget to mention another Rarity
Wh ich we sa'Wat Louvain. Some Dutch Mariners
V 2 fliew’d