A

THOUSAND

NOTABLE THINGS,

ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS;

DISCLOSED FROM

THE SECRETS OF NATURE AND ART;

PRACTICABLE, PROFITABLE, AND of GREAT ADVANTAGE;

Set down from long and curious Study and Experience, for the
greater Part; and the rest taken from the most judicious and ce-
lebrated Authors of the Ancients and Moderns. Being a rich Ca-
binet of select Curiosities and Rarities, in one Volume, digested into
Fourteen Books, for the general Use and Good of Mankind; with
strict Amendments, and large Additions, to what formerly has
been published in this Kind; exceeding any other for the Multi-
tude of pleasing variety herein to be found.

TO WHICH IS PREFIXED,

THE CENTURY OF INVENTIONS,

BY THE

MARQUIS OF WORCESTER, 1655;

ALSO,

A DISCOURSE

ON THE

EMIGRATION OF BRITISH BIRDS.

London:

PRINTED FOR WALKER, EDWARDS, AND REYNOLDS,

PATERNOSTER ROW.