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

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              <emph style="sc">God</emph>
            Bleſs thee, my Son, I will give thee the greateſt Jewel I
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            have; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12960" xml:space="preserve">for I will impart unto thee, for the love of God and Men,
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            a Relation of the true ſtate of Solomons Houſe. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12961" xml:space="preserve">Son, to make
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            you know the true ſtate of Solomons Houſe, I will keep this order.
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            </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12962" xml:space="preserve">Firſt, I will ſet ſorth unto you the End of our Foundation. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12963" xml:space="preserve">Secondly,
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            The Preparations and Inſtruments we have for our Works. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12964" xml:space="preserve">Thirdly,
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            The ſeveral Employments and Functions whereto our Fellows are aſſign-
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            ed: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12965" xml:space="preserve">And fourthly, The Ordinances and Rites which we obſerve.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s12966" xml:space="preserve">The End of our Foundation, is the Knowledge of Cauſes and Secret
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            Motions of things, and the enlarging of the Bounds of Humane Empire,
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            to the effecting of all things poſſible.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s12967" xml:space="preserve">The Preparations and Inſtruments, are theſe. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12968" xml:space="preserve">We have large and
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            deep Caves of ſeveral depths; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12969" xml:space="preserve">the deepeſt are ſunk Six hundred fathom,
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            and ſome of them are digged and made under great Hills and Mountains; </s>
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            ſo that if you reckon together the depth of the Hill, and the depth of the
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            Cave, they are (ſome of them) above three miles deep: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12971" xml:space="preserve">For we finde that
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            the depth of an Hill, and the depth of a Cave from the Flat, is the ſame
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            thing, both remote alike from the Sun and Heavens Beams, and from the
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            open Air. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12972" xml:space="preserve">Theſe Caves we call the Lower Region, and we uſe them for
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            all Coagulations, Indurations, Refrigerations, and Conſervations of
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            Bodies. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12973" xml:space="preserve">We uſe them likewiſe for the Imitation of Natural Mines, and
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            the producing alſo of new Artificial metals, by Compoſitions and Mate-
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            rials which we uſe and lay there for many years. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12974" xml:space="preserve">We uſe them alſo ſome-
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            times (which may ſeem ſtrange) for curing of ſome Difeaſes, and for pro-
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            longation of life in ſome Hermits that chuſe to live there, well accommo-
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            dated of all things neceſſary, and indeed live very long; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12975" xml:space="preserve">by whom alſo we
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            learn many things.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s12976" xml:space="preserve">We have Burials in ſeveral Earths, where we put divers Cements
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            as the Chineſes do their Porcellane; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12977" xml:space="preserve">but we have them in greater variety
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            and ſome of them more fine. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12978" xml:space="preserve">We alſo have great variety of Compoſts
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            and Soils for the making of the Earth fruitful.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s12979" xml:space="preserve">We have high Towers, the higheſt about half a mile in height, and
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            ſome of them likewiſe ſet upon high Mountains, ſo that the vantage of the
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            Hill with the Tower, is in the higheſt of them, three miles at leaſt. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12980" xml:space="preserve">And
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            theſe places we call the Upper Region, accounting the Air between the
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            high places, and the Low as a Middle Region. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12981" xml:space="preserve">We uſe theſe Towers,
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            according to their ſeveral heights and ſituations, for Inſolation, Refrige-
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            ration, Confervation, and for the view of divers Metcors, as Winds, Rain,
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            Snow, Hail, and ſome of the Fiery Meteors alſo. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12982" xml:space="preserve">And upon them, in ſome
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            places, are dwellings of Hermits, whom we viſit ſometimes, and inſtruct
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            what to obſerve.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s12983" xml:space="preserve">We have great Lakes, both ſalt and freſh, whereof we have uſe for
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            the F@ſh and Fowl. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12984" xml:space="preserve">Weuſe them alſo for Burials of ſome Natural Bodies; </s>
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            for we finde a differencein things buried in Earth, or in Air below the Earth,
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            and things buried in Water. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12986" xml:space="preserve">We have alſo Pools, of which ſome do ſtrain
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            Freſh Water out of Salt, and others by Art do turn Freſh Waterinto Salt. </s>
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            We have alſo ſome Rocks in the midſt of the Sea, and ſome Bays upon
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            the Shore for ſome Works, wherein is required the Air and Vapor of the
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            Sea. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12988" xml:space="preserve">We have likewiſe violent ſtreams and cataracts, which ſerve us for
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            many Motions; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12989" xml:space="preserve">and likewiſe Engins for multiplying and enforcing oſ
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            Winds, to ſet alſo on going divers Motions.</s>
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