"Et alia" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... aquarum mercurialium et alia experimenta chemica, Anglic, cujus initium est, "He that will ...
— The Private Diary of Dr. John Dee - And the Catalog of His Library of Manuscripts • John Dee
... generally practised. Seneca makes mention of it in the 2d book, chap. 22. of his Nat. Quaest., and he specifies some of the kinds of wood known by the shepherds to be fit for the purpose, "sicut lauris, hederae, et alia in hunc usum nota pastoribus." This is noticed by Mr Jones, who gives it as his opinion that the lauris, here spoken of, is the bay-tree, which, according to the poet Lucretius, is remarkable for its inflammability. The reader ...
— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. 13 • Robert Kerr |
