Produced by Jonathan Ingram, KD Weeks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries.) Transcriber's Note Marginal notes are used for multiple purposes in this edition. Footnotes and section headers were both printed in the margins. For this text version, numbered marginal footnotes have been moved to the end of their paragraphs. The headers have been moved to appear on a separate line at the beginning of each section. Redundant sidenotes merely indicating Part and Section numbers have been removed. Those notes which serve as paragraph descriptions, at or near the head of a paragraph, precede that paragraph. Those which serve to annotate specific points are inserted parenthetically as [SN: notes]. Italics are used freely, and have been rendered using _underscore_ characters. Superscripted characters are rendered as {x}. Please consult the more detailed notes at the end of this text. THE ENGLISH LIBRARY THE WORKS OF SIR THOMAS BROWNE VOLUME II [Illustration: Sir Thomas Browne's Skull] THE WORKS OF SIR THOMAS BROWNE Edited by CHARLES SAYLE VOLUME II LONDON GRANT RICHARDS 1904 Edinburgh T. and A. CONSTABLE, Printers to His Majesty PREFATORY NOTE The frontispiece to this volume is reproduced from a photograph kindly lent to me for the purpose by Mr. Charles Williams, F.R.C.S.E., of Norwich, whose note upon the measurements of Sir Thomas Browne's skull appeared as Appendix II. in the edition of Browne's _Hydriotaphia_ and _Garden of Cyrus_, published in the 'Golden Treasury Series,' by Messrs. Macmillan and Co., in 1896. The identification of the author quoted in the margin of page 233 (Book v. Chapter x.). I owe to Mr. W. Aldis Wright. C.S. _May 1, 1904._ CONTENTS PAGE PSEUDODOXIA EPIDEMICA THE THIRD BOOK (_continued_):