IV. Account of a book, viz. Aloysi Ferdinandi comit. Marsigli danubialis operis Prodromus. Ad Regiam Societatem Anglicanam. Fol. 1700

Abstract

T p H e Author o f this Pro dr owns hath given feveral J t proofs o f his great Abilities in this part o f Learn­ ing, as in his Ojfermzioni Bosforo Printed at Rome in. %to. 1681. In HsJXJfertrtmiRfc Jioldre del Posfdrominerale,0Sia della Pietra illuminabile Bolognefe, at Leipfick in/$ocumfig.i The Piece now before us is only a Plan or Model o f a great Work, which Signor Marfigli is carrying oh in fix large Volumes in Fob Imperial Paper, which he defigns to dedicate to the prefent Emperor of Germany, by whofe Favour he was employed' many years in the Turkilh Wars, and continues to receive a noble Salarv from the fame hand. The firft Tome is to contain the Geographical Part, iHuftrated with mafhy Charts and adual Surveys of the Banks of the Dambe, frpm its rife to its exit into the R w n eS ea f deferring W alorig’the Channel^ Whirl-. " pools