Bacon, Francis, Sylva sylvarum : or, a natural history in ten centuries

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[131.] The Explication.
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[132.] Canon XXXI.
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[133.] The Explication.
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[134.] Canon XXXII.
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[135.] The Explication.
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[136.] FINIS.
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[137.] ARTICLES OF ENQUIRY, TOUCHING METALS & MINERALS. Written by the Right Honorable, FRANCIS BACON, BARON of VERULAM, Viſcount St. Alban. Thought fit to be added, to this Work OF HIS NATURAL HISTORY. Nevvly put forth in the Year, 1661. By the former Publisher.
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[138.] LONDON, Printed for VVilliam Lee at the Turks-head in Fleetſtreet. 1669.
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[139.] ARTICLES OF ENQUIRY, TOUCHING METALS & MINERALS.
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[140.] Some few of theſe would be enquired of, to diſcloſe the Nature of the reſt.
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[141.] THE BOOK-SELLER UNTO THE READER.
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[142.] FINIS.
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[143.] NEW ATLANTIS.
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[144.] A VVork unfinished. Written by the Right Honorable, FRANCIS Lord Verulam, Viſcount St. Albans.
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[145.] TO THE READER
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[146.] NEW ATLANTIS.
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[147.] The reſt was not perfected.
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[148.] Magnalia Naturæ præcipue quoad uſus Humanos.
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[149.] FINIS.
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            of Seeds in the bottoms of Caves; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4855" xml:space="preserve">and Pot
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            s with Seeds ſown, hanged
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            up in Wells, ſome diſtance from the Water, and ſee what the event
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            will be.</s>
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          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4857" xml:space="preserve">IT is certain, that Timber-Trees in Coppice Woods, grow more upright, and
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            more free from under Boughs, than thoſe that ſtand in the Fields. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4858" xml:space="preserve">The
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              in Conſort,
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              touching the
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              Procerity, and
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              Lowneſs, and
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              Artificial
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              Dwarfing of
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              Trees.</note>
            cauſe whereof is, for that Plants have a natural motion to get to the
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            Sun: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4859" xml:space="preserve">and beſides, they are not glutted with too much nouriſhment;
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4860" xml:space="preserve">for that the Coppice ſhareth with them, and Repletion ever hindreth
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            ſtature. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4861" xml:space="preserve">Laſtly, they are kept warm, and that ever in Plants helpeth
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            mounting.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4863" xml:space="preserve">Trees that are of themſelves full of Heat, (which heat appeareth by
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            their in flamable Gums) as Firrs, and Pines, mount of themſelves in heighth
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            without Side-boughs, till they come towards the top. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4864" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is partly
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            heat, and partly tenuity of Juyce; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4865" xml:space="preserve">both which ſend the Sap upwards. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4866" xml:space="preserve">As for
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            Juniper, it is but a Shrub, and groweth not big enough in Body to maintain a
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            tall Tree.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4868" xml:space="preserve">It is reported, that a good ſtrong Canvas, ſpred over a Tree graſt-
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            ed low, ſoon after it putteth forth, will dwarf it, and make it ſpred.
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4869" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is plain; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4870" xml:space="preserve">for that all things that grow, will grow as they finde
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            room.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4872" xml:space="preserve">Trees are generally ſet of Roots or Kernels; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4873" xml:space="preserve">but if you ſet them of Slips,
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            (as of ſome Trees you may, by name the Mulberry) ſome of the Slips will
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            take; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4874" xml:space="preserve">and thoſe that take, (as is reported) will be Dwarf-trees The cauſe
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            is, for that a Slip draweth nouriſhment more weakly, than either a Root or
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            Kernel.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4876" xml:space="preserve">All Plants that put forth their Sap haſtily, havetheir Bodies not propor-
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            tionable to their length, and therefore they are Winders and Creepers; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4877" xml:space="preserve">as
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            Ivy, Briony, Hops, Woodbine: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4878" xml:space="preserve">Whereas Dwarfing requiteth a ſlow putting
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            forth, and leſs vigor of mounting.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4880" xml:space="preserve">THe Scripture ſaith, That Solomon wrote a Natural Hiſtory, from the
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              in Conſort,
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              touching the
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              Rudiments of
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              Plants, and of
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              the Excreſcen-
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              ces of Plants,
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              or Super-
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              Plants.</note>
            Cedar of Libanus, to the Moß growing upon the Wall; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4881" xml:space="preserve">for ſo the beſt
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            Tranſlations have it. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4882" xml:space="preserve">And it is true, that Moß is but the Rudiment of a Plant, and
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            (as it were) the Mould of Earth or Bark.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4884" xml:space="preserve">Moß groweth chiefly upon Ridges of Houſes, tiled or thatched, and
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            upon the Creſts of Walls, and that Moſs is of a lightſome and pleaſant
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            Green. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4885" xml:space="preserve">The growing upon Slopes is cauſed for that Moſs, as on the
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            one ſide it cometh of Moiſture and Water, ſo on the other ſide the
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            Water muſt but ſlide, and not ſtand or pool. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4886" xml:space="preserve">And the growing upon
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            Tiles, or Walls, &</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4888" xml:space="preserve">is cauſed, for that thoſe dried Earths, having not
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            moiſture ſufficient to put forth a Plant, do practice Germination by put-
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            ting forth Moſs; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4889" xml:space="preserve">though when by age, or otherwiſe, they grow to re-
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            lent and reſolve, they ſometimes put forth Plants, as Wall flowers.
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4890" xml:space="preserve">And almoſt all Mofs hath here and there little Stalks, beſides the low
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            Thrum.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4892" xml:space="preserve">Moß groweth upon Alleys, eſpecially ſuch as lye cold, and upon the
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            North; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4893" xml:space="preserve">as in divers Tarraſes. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4894" xml:space="preserve">And again, if they be much trodden; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4895" xml:space="preserve">or if
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            they were at the firſt gravelled: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4896" xml:space="preserve">For whereſoever Plants are kept down, the
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            Earth putteth forth Moſs.</s>
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