Ducal cap
The Duke of Venice ducall cap which the Venetians call il Corno because it hath an apex or horn arising aboue the
top of it on the hinder part, and vnder that a white coife with little strings, which from the eares hang down backwards upon his neck.
Coral net
An Instrument or
net for coral fishing.
It is made of wood
in form of a cross
with a huge weight
of lead made fast to
the middle of it, at
each end is fastned a round net: to the
midle is fastned a long rop: now the
maner of their geting vp of corall out
of the sea from the rocks on which it
groweth is thus. They go out in little
Boats and let down this cross; and
when they haue found a rock at the
bottom of the sea, he that manages the
rope thrusts it into the hollows of the
rock, geting in one or two of the legs
of the cross, and if there be any coral
it entangles in the nets at the end of
the cross by which it is torn off and
brought up. The sea must be uery
calm and smooth when they fish for it,
else it is impossible for them to get it.
It grows downwards (as the Urinators
say) under the hollow rocks, and not
vpwards as trees: but I believe it grows
indifferently either upwards or downwards according to the situation of
the Rocks. The natural colour of
the coral while it is alive and growing to the rocks is a pale carneous:
but when the scurf (which answers to
the bark in trees) is rubed off, it
is Red. There is also a sort of coral
that is white, but that is not much
esteemed.
Dutch skate
A Dutch
Skite, this is a
kind of wooden
paten haueing
strings and
Leather stayes
to bind it on
the foot; on the bottome or sole thereof is fastned an Iron Plate, about halfe
an Inch thick. With these the Dutch
use to slide on the Ice in the winter
tome ouer broad riuers and along the
riuers from Town to Town.
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