[133] In the travels of Boullaye le Gouz, published in 1657, we find a reference to this notion. He says, “I had among my baggage the hand of a Syren, or fisherwoman, which I threw, on the sly, into the sea, because the captain, seeing that we could not make way, asked me if I had not got some mummy or other in my bags which hindered our progress, in which case we must return to Egypt to carry it back again. Most of the Provençals have the opinion that the vessels which transport the mummies from Egypt have great difficulty in arriving safe at port: so that I feared, lest coming to search my goods, they might take the hand of this fish for a mummy’s hand, and insult me on account of it.” [134] “That dolphins are crooked is not only affirmed by the hand of the painter, but commonly conceived their naturall or proper figure, which is not only the opinion of our times, but seems the belief of older times before us: for besides the expressions of Ovid and Pliny, their Portraicts in ancient Coynes are framed in this figure, as will appear in some thereof in Gesner, others in Goltzius, and Lævinus Hulsius in his description of Coynes. Notwithstanding, to speak strictly, in their naturall Figure they are streight, nor have they their spine convexed or more considerably embowed than Sharkes, Porposes, or Whales, and therefore what is delivered of their incurvity must either be taken Emphatically, that is, not really, but in appearance; which happeneth when they leap above water or suddenly shoot down again: which is a fallacy of vision, whereby streight bodies in a sudden motion protruded obliquely downward appear to the eye crooked, and this is the construction of Bellonius: or, if it be taken really, it must not be universally and perpetually, that is, not when they swimme and remaine in their proper figures, but only when they leape or impetuously whirle their bodies anyway: and this is the opinion of Gesnerus. Or, lastly, it must be taken neither really nor emphatically, but only emblematically; for being the Hieroglyphic of Celerity, and swifter than other animalls, men best expressed their velocity by incurvity, and under some figure of a bowe, and in this sense probably do Heralds also receive it.”—_Browne._ [135] In Sussex no better remedy could be found for tooth-ache than the application of a paw cut from a living mole. INDEX. “Accedence of Armorie,” 52, 121, 232 Acipenser, 330 Acosta, “travels in the Indies,” 44 Acrid secretion in skin of toad, 281 “Actes of English votaries,” 69 “Adam in Eden,” 48 Adder, 173 Adder eaters, 77 Ælianus, works of, 95 Agriophagi, 72 Ague, specifics for, 172, 186, 309 Ainos of Japan, 61 Albert Nyanza in old maps, 13 Albertus Magnus, 160, 282 Alciatus, Book of Emblems, 84 Aldrovandus, 63, 272, 305, 316 Alectorius, 235, 247 All creation a moral text book, 51, 125 Ambrosinus, 316 Amphisbæna, 304 “Anatomy of Melancholy,” 309