Sir Thomas Browne's Latin treatises and his correspondence are not included in these volumes. It was the determination of the original publisher of this edition that they should be omitted; and indeed they do not form the most characteristic part of Sir Thomas Browne's work. His erudition, and the resources from which he drew, his amazing industry, his marvellous diction, and natural piety--all these are apparent to the general reader of his English text; and it is to such that the present edition of Sir Thomas Browne's works, as they originally appeared, will primarily appeal. C. S. _16th June 1907._ CONTENTS Page PREFATORY NOTE BY THE EDITOR, v PSEUDODOXIA EPIDEMICA-- THE SEVENTH BOOK: 1. Of the Forbidden Fruit, 1 2. That a Man hath one Rib less then a Woman, 5 3. Of Methuselah, 8 4. That there was no Rain-bow before the Flood, 11 5. Of Sem, Ham, and Japhet, 15 6. That the Tower of Babel was erected against a Second Deluge, 17 7. Of the Mandrakes of Leah, 19 8. Of the three Kings of Collein, 25 9. Of the food of John Baptist, Locust and Wild Honey, 27 10. That John Evangelist should not die, 29 11. More compendiously of some others, 36 12. Of the Cessation of Oracles, 39 13. Of the death of Aristotle, 42 14. Of the Wish of Philoxenus, 49 15. Of the Lake Asphaltites, 52 16. Of divers other Relations, 56 17. Of some others, 65 18. More briefly of some others, 74 19. Of some Relations whose truth we fear, 81 HYDRIOTAPHIA AND THE GARDEN OF CYRUS (1658), 87 Epistle to Thomas Le Gros, 89 Epistle to Nicholas Bacon, 93 HYDRIOTAPHIA, 97 THE GARDEN OF CYRUS, 145 The Stationer to the Reader, 211 CERTAIN MISCELLANY TRACTS (1684), 213 The Publisher to the Reader, 215