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 a little wheel where there is fastened some loadstone, and the little Ships and Coaches having also some piece of iron in their bottoms which touch the glass; and so the iron running after the loadstone moued by the wheel, makes these Ships and Coaches seem to move of themselves. 9. A piece of a thunderbolt, which the Canon himself said he had cut out of a mans thigh strucken with it. 10. Divers pieces of Coral just as it grows in the Sea. 11. A little Pillar two handfull high of marble, so cracked, that it gapeth wide on one side with the crack, and yet holdeth together fast on the other side, as a great stick of green wood doth, when it is bent so farre on one side as to gape, and yet sticks together on the other. 12. A world of rich jewels, strange stones, cameos, pictures, crystals, little infants in wax in glass cases, and many other exotick rarities, which are better seen then described.

21. Some Palaces here; as that of the Governours, rather vast then