There is a good and well furnished library belonging to this city, which adjoins to the church of _St. John_. And during my stay here I had the opportunity of conversing with _Jo. Albertus Fabricius_, a person of great learning, and famous for some works he has already published. I visited likewise _Mynhéer Langerman_, a druggist, who shewed me some curious _ores_; and _pieces of eight_, fished up from a Spanish wreck; with the _piedra de puerco_, about the size of a large nutmeg, which is found in the bladder of some hogs in the _Philippine_ islands, a great sudorific, and esteemed a sovereign remedy against intermitting fevers. One stone is usually valued at a hundred ducats. The night I visited the wine cellar at Mr. Manning’s house, we saw a man, named _George Po_, born at _Prague_, who eat raw flesh, glass, paper, and above all things raw flax and tow, which he devoured very greedily, and called it his chief delicacy. He likewise swallows large stones, and accustoms himself to devour all unnatural substances, even perukes; tho of this last he is now somewhat cautious, since his twin brother died by eating one at _Halberstadt_. A senator’s wife of this city maintains an opera house, where they have a prodigious large stage, and great variety of well painted scenes. Here Mr. Lethieullier one night entertained us to our great satisfaction. At the same place, and belonging to the same woman, is shewn the famous model of _Solomon’s Temple_, being the exact resemblance of that fabric, as described by the best authors, expressed in every part by carved wood work to the hight of an English yard, and all the inward apartments perfectly exhibited to the eye, as the workman takes it to pieces for the satisfaction of the spectators. This ingenious machine cost no less than ten thousand dollars. The inhabitants of _Hamburg_ are censured as proud, formal, and ceremonious; the magistrates as addicted to vice, libertinism, and self interest; and the people as turbulent, and seditious; whence many prognosticate ill to the trade, and future power of the city. The language, which they here speak, is called the _Plat Dutch_, being a medium betwixt that of Germany and Holland.