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

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            <s xml:id="echoid-s3424" xml:space="preserve">The ſeventh is, Separation of the cruder parts, and thereby making the
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0110-01" xlink:href="note-0110-01a" xml:space="preserve">347.</note>
            Body more equal; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3425" xml:space="preserve">for all unperfect mixture is apt to putrifie, and Watry
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            ſubſtances are more apt to putrifie, than oily. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3426" xml:space="preserve">So, we ſee diſtilled Waters
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            will laſt longer than raw Waters, and things that have paſſed the Fire,
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            do laſt longer than thoſe that have not paſſed the Fire; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3427" xml:space="preserve">as dried Pears,
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            & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3428" xml:space="preserve">c.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s3430" xml:space="preserve">The eighth is, The drawing forth continually of that part, where the Putre-
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0110-02" xlink:href="note-0110-02a" xml:space="preserve">348.</note>
            faction beginneth: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3431" xml:space="preserve">Which is (commonly) the looſe and watry moiſture; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3432" xml:space="preserve">not onely
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            for the reaſon before given, that it provoketh the radical moiſture to come
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            forth with it; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3433" xml:space="preserve">but becauſe being detained in the Body, the Putrefaction
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            taking hold of it, infecteth the reſt: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3434" xml:space="preserve">As we ſee in the Embalming of Dead
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            Bodies. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3435" xml:space="preserve">And the ſame reaſon is, of preſerving Herbs, or Fruits, or Flowers,
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            in Bran or Meal.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s3437" xml:space="preserve">The ninth is, The commixture of any thing that is more oyly or ſweet: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3438" xml:space="preserve">For ſuch
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0110-03" xlink:href="note-0110-03a" xml:space="preserve">349.</note>
            Bodies are leaſt apt to putrifie, the Air working little upon them, and they
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            not putrifying preſerve the reſt. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3439" xml:space="preserve">And therefore we ſee Syrrups and Oynt-
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            ments will laſt longer than Juyces.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s3441" xml:space="preserve">The tenth is, The commixture of ſome what that is dry; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3442" xml:space="preserve">for Putrefaction
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0110-04" xlink:href="note-0110-04a" xml:space="preserve">350.</note>
            beginneth firſt from the Spirits, and then from the moiſture; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3443" xml:space="preserve">and that
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            that is dry, is unapt to putrifie. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3444" xml:space="preserve">And therefore ſmoak preſerveth fleſh;
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            </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3445" xml:space="preserve">as we ſee in Bacon, and Neats-Tongues, and Martlemas-Beef, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3446" xml:space="preserve">c.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s3448" xml:space="preserve">The opinion of ſome of the Ancients, That blown Airs do preſerve
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0110-05" xlink:href="note-0110-05a" xml:space="preserve">351.</note>
            Bodies longer than other Airs, ſeemeth to me probable; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3449" xml:space="preserve">for that the
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            blown Airs, being over-charged and compreſſed, will hardly receive the
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            exhaling of any thing, but rather repulſe it. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3450" xml:space="preserve">It was tryed in a blown
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            Bladder, whereinto fleſh was put, and likewiſe a Flower, and it ſorted not:
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            </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3451" xml:space="preserve">For dry Bladders will not blow, and new Bladders rather further Putrefacti-
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            on. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3452" xml:space="preserve">The way were therefore, to blow ſtrongly with a pair of Bellows, into
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            a Hogſhead, putting into the Hogſhead (before) that which you would
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            have preſerved; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3453" xml:space="preserve">and in the inſtant that you withdraw the Bellows, ſtop the
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            hole cloſe.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s3455" xml:space="preserve">THe Experiment of Wood that ſhineth in the dark, we have diligently
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            driven and purſued: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3456" xml:space="preserve">The rather, for that of all things that give light
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0110-07" xlink:href="note-0110-07a" xml:space="preserve">Experiment
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              Solitary,
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              touching
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              Wood Shining
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              in the Dark.</note>
            here below, it is the moſt durable, and hath leaſt apparent motion. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3457" xml:space="preserve">Fire
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            and Flame are in continual expence; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3458" xml:space="preserve">Sugar ſhining onely while it is in ſcra-
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            ping; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3459" xml:space="preserve">and Salt-water while it is in daſhing; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3460" xml:space="preserve">Gloworms have their ſhining
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            while they live, or a little after; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3461" xml:space="preserve">onely Scales of Fiſhes (putrified) ſeem to
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            be of the ſame nature with ſhining Wood. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3462" xml:space="preserve">And it is true, that all Putre-
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            faction hath with it an in ward motion, as well as Fire or Light. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3463" xml:space="preserve">The tryal
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            ſorted thus.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s3465" xml:space="preserve">1. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3466" xml:space="preserve">The ſhining is in ſome pieces more bright, in ſome more dim;
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            </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3467" xml:space="preserve">but the moſt bright of all doth not attain to the light of a Gloworm. </s>
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            2. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3469" xml:space="preserve">The Woods that have been tryed to ſhine, are chiefly Sallow and Wil-
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            low; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3470" xml:space="preserve">alſo, the Aſh and Haſle, it may be, it holdeth in others. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3471" xml:space="preserve">3. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3472" xml:space="preserve">Both
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            Roots, and Bodies do ſhine but the Roots better. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3473" xml:space="preserve">4. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3474" xml:space="preserve">The colour of the
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            ſhining part, by day-light, is in ſome pieces white, in ſome pieces inclining
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            to red; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3475" xml:space="preserve">which in the Country they call the White and Red Carret. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3476" xml:space="preserve">5. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3477" xml:space="preserve">The
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            part that ſhineth, is (for the moſt part) ſome what ſoft, and moiſt to feel
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            to; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3478" xml:space="preserve">but ſome was found to be firm and hard; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3479" xml:space="preserve">ſo as it might be figured into
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            a Croſs, or into Beads, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3480" xml:space="preserve">c. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3481" xml:space="preserve">But you muſt not look to have an Image, or
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            the like, in any thing that is Lightſom; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3482" xml:space="preserve">for even a Face in Iron red </s>
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