suffers not any, either Serpent or Scorpion to come within the City. And if any one, for experiment sake, bring one of these out of the field into the City, it is no sooner at the Gate, but that it dies suddenly. This Figure hath this virtue besides; that when any one is stung with a Scorpion, or bitten by any other Serpent, they need but take the Image of the Stone with a little clay, and apply it to the wound, and it is instantly healed.” Unto which Mr. _Gaffarel_ addeth this: “If any one doubt (saith he) of the credit of this Cosmographer, he may yet adventure to believe Mr. _de Breves_, as having been an eye-witness of the like experiment: who says in his Travels, that at _Tripoli_ a City of _Syria_, within a Wall that reacheth from the Sea-side to the Gate of the City, there is a certain inchanted stone; on which is figured, in Relief, or by way of Imbossment, the Figure of a Scorpion, which was there placed by a Magician, for to drive away Venomous Beasts, which infested this Province, as the Serpent of Brass in the Hippodromus at _Constantinople_ did. And a little above the City, there is a certain Cave, which is full of the Carkasses and Bones of Serpents, which died at that time.” And further _Gaffarel_ saith: “Now whereas he calls this an inchanted Stone, and says that it was placed there by a Magician, you must note, that he there speaks according to the sense of the inhabitants, who knew not how to give any other account of the thing, as not understanding any thing at all of the natural reason of it.” [Sidenote: _Argum. 2._] [Sidenote: _Observat. Communicat._ 7. _p._ 329.] [Sidenote: _Hist. 5._] [Sidenote: _De simpl. medic. facul._ _p._ 1076.] [Sidenote: _Pharm. med. Chym._ _c._ 9. _p._ 24.] [Sidenote: Deut. 33. 13, 14.]