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

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          <head xml:id="echoid-head27" xml:space="preserve">NATURAL
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          HISTORY.</head>
          <head xml:id="echoid-head28" xml:space="preserve">Century I.</head>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s480" xml:space="preserve">DIg a Pit upon the Sea-ſhore, ſomewhat above the
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0035-01" xlink:href="note-0035-01a" xml:space="preserve">1.</note>
            High-water Mark, and ſink it as deep as the Low-
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0035-02" xlink:href="note-0035-02a" xml:space="preserve">Experiments
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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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              colation.</note>
            water Mark; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s481" xml:space="preserve">And as the Tide cometh in, it will fill
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            with Water, Freſh and Potable. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s482" xml:space="preserve">This is common-
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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. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s483" xml:space="preserve">And Caſar knew this well,
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            when he was beſieged in Alexandria; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s484" xml:space="preserve">for by digging
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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. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s485" xml:space="preserve">But Caſar miſtook the cauſe; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s486" xml:space="preserve">for he thought that all
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            Sea-ſands had Natural Springs of Freſh-water. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s487" xml:space="preserve">But it is plain, that it is the
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            Sea-water, becauſe the Pit filleth according to the Meaſure of the Tide:
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s488" xml:space="preserve">And the Sea-water paſſing or ſtraining through the Sands, leaveth the
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            Saltneſs.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s490" xml:space="preserve">I remember to have read, that Tryal hath been made of Salt-water
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            paſſed through Earth; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s491" xml:space="preserve">through ten Veſſels, one within another, and yet it
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            hath not loſt his Saltneſs, as to become potable: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s492" xml:space="preserve">But the ſame Man ſaith, that
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            (by the relation of another Salt-water drained through twenty Veſſels,
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            hath become freſh. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s493" xml:space="preserve">This Experiment ſeemeth to croſs that other of Pits,
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            made by the Sea-ſide; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s494" xml:space="preserve">and yet but in part, if it be true, that twenty Repeti-
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            tions do the effect. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s495" xml:space="preserve">But it is worth the note, how poor the Imitations of
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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. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s496" xml:space="preserve">For firſt, there is no ſmall
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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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            </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s497" xml:space="preserve">Secondly, there is a great difference between Earth and Sand; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s498" xml:space="preserve">for all Earth
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            hath in it a kin @e of Nitrous Salt, from which, Sand is more free: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s499" xml:space="preserve">And
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            beſides, Earth doth not ſtrain the Water ſo finely as Sand doth. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s500" xml:space="preserve">But there
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            is a third point, that I ſuſpect as much, or more than the other two; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s501" xml:space="preserve">and
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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; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s502" xml:space="preserve">but in the Experiment of Tranſmiſsion of the Water, through
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            the Veſſels, it falleth: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s503" xml:space="preserve">Now certain it is, that the Salter part of Water </s>
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