Navigatours consider the Ark, which was pitched without and within, and could endure the Ocean without Mast or Sails: They take special notice of the twenty seventh of _Ezekiel_; the mighty Traffick and great Navigation of _Tyre_, with particular mention of their Sails, their Masts of Cedar, Oars of Oak, their skilfull Pilots, Mariners and Calkers; as also of the long Voyages of the Fleets of _Solomon_; of _Jehosaphat's_ Ships broken at _Ezion-Geber_; of the notable Voyage and Shipwreck of S. _Paul_, so accurately delivered in the _Acts_. Oneirocritical Diviners apprehend some hints of their knowledge, even from Divine Dreams; while they take notice of the Dreams of _Joseph_, _Pharaoh_, _Nebuchadnezzar_, and the Angels on _Jacob's_ Ladder; and find, in _Artemidorus_ and _Achmetes_, that Ladders signifie Travels, and the Scales thereof Preferment; and that Oxen Lean and Fat naturally denote Scarcity or Plenty, and the successes of Agriculture. Physiognomists will largely put in from very many passages of Scripture. And when they find in _Aristotle_, _quibus frons quadrangula, commensurata, fortes, referuntur ad leones_, cannot but take special notice of that expression concerning the Gadites; _mighty men of war, fit for battel, whose faces were as the faces of lyons_. Geometrical and Architectonical Artists look narrowly upon the description of the Ark, the fabrick of the Temple, and the holy City in the _Apocalypse_. But the Botanical Artist meets every where with Vegetables, and from the Figg Leaf in _Genesis_ to the Star Wormwood in the _Apocalypse_, are variously interspersed expressions from Plants, elegantly advantaging the significancy of the Text: Whereof many being delivered in a Language proper unto _Judæa_ and neighbour Countries are imperfectly apprehended by the common Reader, and now doubtfully made out, even by the Jewish Expositour. And even in those which are confessedly known, the elegancy is often lost in the apprehension of the Reader, unacquainted with such Vegetables, or but nakedly knowing their natures: whereof holding a pertinent apprehension, you cannot pass over such expressions without some doubt or want of satisfaction in your judgment. Hereof we shall onely hint or discourse some few which I could not but take notice of in the reading of holy Scripture. Many Plants are mention'd in Scripture which are not distinctly known in our Countries, or under such Names in the Original, as they are fain to be rendred by analogy, or by the name of Vegetables of good affinity unto them, and so maintain the textual sense, though in some variation from identity. * * * * * [Sidenote: _The Observations. Kikaion._]