Bacon, Francis
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Sylva sylvarum : or, a natural history in ten centuries
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HISTORY.</
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High-water Mark, and ſink it as deep as the Low-
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in Conſort,
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touching the
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Straining and
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Paſsing of Bo-
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dies one thorow
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another; which
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they call Per.
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water Mark; </
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with Water, Freſh and Potable. </
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ly
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practiſed upon the Coaſt of Barbary, where other
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Freſh Water is wanting. </
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when he was beſieged in Alexandria; </
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of Pits in the Sea-ſhore, he did fruſtrate the labori-
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ous Works of the Enemies, which had turned the
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Sea-water upon the Wells of Alexandria, and ſo ſaved his Army, being
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then in Deſperation. </
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Sea-water, becauſe the Pit filleth according to the Meaſure of the Tide:
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paſſed through Earth; </
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hath not loſt his Saltneſs, as to become potable: </
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hath become freſh. </
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made by the Sea-ſide; </
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Nature are, in common courſe of Experiments, except they be led by great
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Judgment, and ſome good Light of Axioms. </
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difference between a Paſſage of Water through twenty ſmall Veſſels, and
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through ſuch a diſtance, as between the Low-water and High-water Mark.
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hath in it a kin @e of Nitrous Salt, from which, Sand is more free: </
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beſides, Earth doth not ſtrain the Water ſo finely as Sand doth. </
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that is, that in the Experiment of Tranſmiſsion of the Sea-water into the Pits,
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the Water riſeth; </
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the Veſſels, it falleth: </
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