Of the Motion of the Sea by Winds, and how far Storms reach downwards towards the Bottom of the Sea? [Sidenote: * _The particulars whereof (saith the Author) are here omitted; Sir _Robert Moray_ and Dr. _Wallis_ having by there more accurate inquiries about _Tides_ made them needless._] Of the grand Motions of the Bulk or Body of the Sea; especially of the Tides *; Their History as to their Nature and Differences. {316} What power the Sea hath to produce or hasten Putrefaction in some Bodies, and to preserve others; as Wood, Cables, and others that are sunk under it? Of the Power ascribed to the Sea to eject Dead Bodies, _Succinum_, _Ambergris_? Of the shining of the Sea in the night? What are the Medical vertues of the Sea, especially against _Hydrophobia_? What is its vertue to Manure Land? And what are the Plants, that thrive best with Sea-water. * * * * * _Some Considerations concerning the _Parenchymous_ parts of the Body._ These were communicated by the inquisitive M. _Edmund King_ at the Instance of the _Publisher_, as follows; The _Parenchymous_ parts of the Body, are by _Anatomists_ generally supposed to be in very many places wholly _void of Vessels_; designed chiefly to fill up Cavities and interstices between the Vessels, and to boulster up the same, and to convey them through the parts. But having many years endeavoured to excarnate several parts of the Body, _viz._ the Liver, Lungs, Spleen, Kidneys, &c. (not to name the _Placenta Uteri_, which seems to be _Parenchymous_ too;) and being very desirous to make a _Scheme_ of the Vessels of any of these, what ever they were, I fixt upon; I found, notwithstanding all my care to preserve the Vessels, when I was freeing them, as heedfully as I could, from the supposed _Parenchyma_, that in every breach, I made, either with my fingers or otherwise, all my endeavors were destructive to my purpose: and that, upon examination of those bits, much of which is called _Parenchyma_, I met in them more Vessels, than I had preserved in the parts whence they came: And though the portion were never so small, yet my bare eye could make this discovery; much more could I, when assisted by a _Microscope_, perceive, I had destroyed more Vessels than preserved, in despite of the exactest care, I was capable to use. And being not a little concern'd, that I should undertake to preserve the Vessels by such a Cause, as I saw plainly to be their definition (were the part never so big, or never so small) I was both confounded and tired. For I saw (and so must any, that will attempt this work) in my endeavouring to preserve one Vessel of a traceable magnitude, I spoiled an infinite number of others less discernable, which were as truly Vessels, as the other, differing only in size and figure (as to appearance.) Then reviewing what mischief I had done in every place, quite through the whole Tract of my Fingers, Knife, &c. I begin to think with my