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

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            for that the Air is of it ſelf thin and thirſty, and as ſoon as ever it getteth
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            any moiſture from the Water, it imbibeth, and d ſſipateth it in the whole
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            Body of the Air, and ſuffereth it not to romain in Vapor, where by it might
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            breed Rain.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s6980" xml:space="preserve">IT hath been touched in the Title of Perlocations, (namely, ſuch as are in-
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0196-01" xlink:href="note-0196-01a" xml:space="preserve">768.
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              Expetiment
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              Solitary,
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              touching
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              Clarification.</note>
            wards) that the Whites of Eggs and Milk do clarifie; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6981" xml:space="preserve">and it is certain,
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            that in Egypt they prepare and clarifie the Water of Nile, by putting it into
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            great Jars of Stone, and ſtirring it about with a few ſtamped Almonds, where-
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            with they alſo beſmear the Mouth of the Veſſel; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6982" xml:space="preserve">and ſo draw it off, after it
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            hath reſted ſome time. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6983" xml:space="preserve">It were good to try this Clarifying with Almonds in
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            new Beer or Muſt, to haſten and perfect the Clarifying.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s6985" xml:space="preserve">THere be ſcarce to be found any Vegetables that have Branches and no
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0196-02" xlink:href="note-0196-02a" xml:space="preserve">769.
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              Experiment
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              Solitary,
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              touching
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              Plants with-
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              out Leaves.</note>
            Leaves, except you allow Coral for one. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6986" xml:space="preserve">But there is alſo in the Deſarts
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            of S. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6987" xml:space="preserve">Macario in Egypt, a Plant which is long, Leafle
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            ſs, brown of colour, and
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            branched like Coral, fave that it cloſeth at the top. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6988" xml:space="preserve">This being ſet in Water
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            within Houſe, ſpredeth and diſplayeth ſtrangely; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6989" xml:space="preserve">and the people thereabout
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            have a ſuperſtitious belief, that in the Labor of Women it helpeth to the eaſie
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            Deliverance.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s6991" xml:space="preserve">THe Cryſtalline Venice-Glaß is reported to be a mixture, in equal portions,
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0196-03" xlink:href="note-0196-03a" xml:space="preserve">770.
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              Experiment
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              Solitary,
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              touching the
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              Materials of
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              Glaß.</note>
            of Stones brought from Pavia, by the River Ticinum, and the Aſhes of a
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            Weed called by the Arabs, Kall, which is gathered in a Deſart bet ween
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            Alexandria and Roſetta; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6992" xml:space="preserve">and is by the Egyptians uſed firſt for Fuel, and then
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            they cruſh the Aſhes into lumps like a Stone, and ſoſell them to the Venetians
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            for their Glaſs-works.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s6994" xml:space="preserve">IT is ſtrange, and well to be noted, how long Carcaſſes have continued
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0196-04" xlink:href="note-0196-04a" xml:space="preserve">771.
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              Experiment
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              Solitary,
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              touching
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              Prohibition of
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              Putrefactiou,
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              and the long
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              Conſervation
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              of Bodies.</note>
            uncorrupt, and in their former Dimenſions; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6995" xml:space="preserve">as appeareth in the Mummies
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            of Egypt, having laſted, as is conceived (ſome of them) three thouſand
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            years. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6996" xml:space="preserve">It is true, they finde means to draw forth the Brains, and to take
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            forth the Entrails, which are the parts apteſt to corrupt. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6997" xml:space="preserve">But that is no-
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            thing to the wonder; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6998" xml:space="preserve">for we ſee what a ſoft and corruptible ſubſtance the
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            Fleſh of all the other parts of the Body is. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6999" xml:space="preserve">But it ſhould ſeem, that accord-
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            ing to our obſervation and axiom, in our hundredth Experiments, Putre.
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s7000" xml:space="preserve">faction, which we conceive to be ſo natural a Period of Bodies, is but an
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            accident, and that Matter maketh not that haſte to Corruption that is
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            conceived; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7001" xml:space="preserve">and therefore Bodies in ſhining Amber, in Quick-ſilver, in
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            Balms, (where of we now ſpeak) in Wax, in Honey, in Gums, and (it
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            may be) in Conſervatories of Snow, &</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7002" xml:space="preserve">c. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7003" xml:space="preserve">are preſerved very long. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7004" xml:space="preserve">It need
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            not go for repetition, if we reſume again that which we ſaid in the afore-
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            ſaid Experiments concerning Annihilation, namely, That if you provide
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            againſt three cauſes of Putrefaction, Bodies will not corrupt. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7005" xml:space="preserve">The firſt is,
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            that the Air be excluded; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7006" xml:space="preserve">for that undermineth the Body, and conſpireth
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            with the Spirit of the Body to diſſolveit. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7007" xml:space="preserve">The ſecond is, that the Body adja-
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            cent and ambient be not Commaterial, but meerly Heterogeneal to wards
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            the Body that is to be preſerved; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7008" xml:space="preserve">for if nothing can be received by the
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            one, nothing can iſſue from the other; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7009" xml:space="preserve">ſuch are Quick-ſilver and White Am-
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            ber to Herbs and Flies, and ſuch Bodies. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7010" xml:space="preserve">The third is, that the Body to be
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            preſerved, be not of that groſs that it may corrupt within it ſelf, although no
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            part of it iſſue into the Body adjacent; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7011" xml:space="preserve">and therefore it muſt be rather </s>
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