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

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            called Motus Plagæ. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s668" xml:space="preserve">In this common Experiment, the cauſe of the encloſure
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            of the Bubble is for that the Appetite to reſiſt Separation, or Diſcontinu-
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            ance (which in ſolid Bodies is ſtrong) is alſo in Liquors, though fainter and
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            weaker: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s669" xml:space="preserve">As we ſee in this of the Bubble; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s670" xml:space="preserve">we ſee it alſo in little Glaſſes of
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            Spittle that Children make of Ruſhes; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s671" xml:space="preserve">and in Caſtles of Bubbles, which
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            they make by blowing into Water, having obtained a little degree of
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            Tenacity by Mixture of Soap: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s672" xml:space="preserve">We ſee it alſo in the Stillicides of Water,
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            which, if there be Water enough to follow, will draw themſelves into a
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            ſmall Thred, becauſe they will diſcontinue; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s673" xml:space="preserve">but if there be no remedy,
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            then they caſt themſelves into round Drops; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s674" xml:space="preserve">which is the Figure, that
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            ſaveth the Body moſt from Diſcontinuance: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s675" xml:space="preserve">The ſame reaſon is of the
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            Roundneſs of the Bubble, as well for the Skin of Water, as for the Air with-
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            in: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s676" xml:space="preserve">For the Air likewiſe avoideth Diſcontinuance; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s677" xml:space="preserve">and therefore caſteth it
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            ſelf into a round Figure. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s678" xml:space="preserve">And for the ſtop and arreſt of the Air a little
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            while, it ſheweth, that the Air of it ſelf hath little, or no Appetite of
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            Aſcending.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s680" xml:space="preserve">THe Rejection, which I continually uſe, of Experiments (though it ap-
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0040-01" xlink:href="note-0040-01a" xml:space="preserve">25.</note>
            peareth not) is infinite; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s681" xml:space="preserve">but yet if an Experiment be probable in the
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0040-02" xlink:href="note-0040-02a" xml:space="preserve">Experiment
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              Solitary,
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              touching the
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              making of
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              Artificial
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              Springs.</note>
            Work, and of great uſe, I receive it, but deliver it as doubtful. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s682" xml:space="preserve">It was
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            reported by a ſober man, that an Artificial Spring may be made thus: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s683" xml:space="preserve">Finde
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            out a hanging Ground, where there is a good quick Fall of Rain-water. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s684" xml:space="preserve">Lay
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            a Half-Trough of Stone, of a good length, three or four foot deep with-
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            in the ſame Ground; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s685" xml:space="preserve">with one end upon the high Ground, the other upon
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            the low. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s686" xml:space="preserve">Cover the Trough with Brakes a good thickneſs, and caſt Sand
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            upon the top of the Brakes: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s687" xml:space="preserve">You ſhall ſee (ſaith he) that after ſome ſhowres
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            are paſt, the lower end of the Trough will be like a Spring of Water; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s688" xml:space="preserve">which
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            is no marvel, if it hold, while the Rain-water laſteth; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s689" xml:space="preserve">but he ſaid it would
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            continue long time after the Rain is paſt: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s690" xml:space="preserve">As if the Water did multiply it
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            ſelf upon the Air, by the help of the Coldneſs and Condenſation of the
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            Earth, and the Conſort of the firſt Water.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s692" xml:space="preserve">THe French (which put off the name of the French Diſeaſe, unto the name
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0040-03" xlink:href="note-0040-03a" xml:space="preserve">26.</note>
            of the Diſeaſe of Naples) do report, That at the ſiege of Naples, there
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0040-04" xlink:href="note-0040-04a" xml:space="preserve">Experriment
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              Solitary,
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              touching the
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              Venomous
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              quality of
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              Mans Fleſh.</note>
            were certain wicked Merchants that barrelled up Mans Flesh (of ſome that
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            had been lately ſlain in Barbary) and ſold it for Tunney; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s693" xml:space="preserve">and that, upon
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            that foul and high Nouriſhment, was the Original of that Diſeaſe. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s694" xml:space="preserve">Which
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            may well be; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s695" xml:space="preserve">For that it is certain, that the Canibals, in the VVeſt-Indies, eat
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            Mans Flesh; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s696" xml:space="preserve">and the VVeſt-Indies were full of the Pox when they were firſt
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            diſcovered: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s697" xml:space="preserve">And at this day the Mortaleſt poyſons, practiſed by the VVeſt-Indi-
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            ans, have ſome mixture of the Blood, or Fat, or Fleſh of Man. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s698" xml:space="preserve">And divers
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            Witches, and Sorcereſſes, as well amongſt the Heathen, as amongſt the
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            C
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            hriſtians, have fed upon Mans fleſh, to aid (as it ſeemeth) their Imagination,
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            with high and foul Vapors.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s700" xml:space="preserve">IT ſeemeth that there be theſe ways (in likelihood) of Verfion of Vapors
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            or Air, into Water and Moiſture. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s701" xml:space="preserve">The firſt is Cold, which doth mani-
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0040-06" xlink:href="note-0040-06a" xml:space="preserve">Experiment
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              Solitary,
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              touching the
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              Verſion and
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              Tranſmm
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              tati-
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              on of Air in
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              to Water.</note>
            feſtly Condenſe; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s702" xml:space="preserve">as we ſee in the contracting of the Air in the Weather-
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            Glaſs; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s703" xml:space="preserve">whereby it is a degree nearer to Water. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s704" xml:space="preserve">We ſee it alſo in the Gene-
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            ration of Springs, which the Ancients thought (very probably) to be made by
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            the Verſion of Air into VVater, holpen by the Reſt, which the Air hath in
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            thoſe parts, whereby it cannot diſſipate. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s705" xml:space="preserve">And by the coldneſs of Rocks; </s>
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