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

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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1278" xml:space="preserve">It is reported of very good credit, that in the Eaſt-Indies if you ſet a
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            Tub of Water open in a Room where Cloves are kept, it will be drawn dry
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            in Twenty four hours, though it ſtand at ſome diſtant from the Cloves.
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1279" xml:space="preserve">In the Countrey, they uſe many times in deceit, when their Wooll is new
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            ſhorn, to ſet ſome Pails of Water by in the ſame Room, to encreaſe
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            the weight of the Wooll: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1280" xml:space="preserve">But it may be, that the Heat of the Wool re-
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            maining from the Body of the Sheep, or the heat gathered by the lying
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            cloſe of the Wool, helpeth to draw the watry vapor; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1281" xml:space="preserve">but that is nothing to
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            the Verſion.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1283" xml:space="preserve">It is reported alſo credibly, that Wool new ſhorn, being laid caſually
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0055-02" xlink:href="note-0055-02a" xml:space="preserve">79.</note>
            upon a Veſſel of Verjuice, after ſome time hath drunk up a great part of the
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            Verjuice, though the Veſſel were whole without any flaw, and had not the
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            Bung-hole open. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1284" xml:space="preserve">In this inſtance there is (upon the by) to be noted, the
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            Percolation or Suing of the Verjuice thorow the Wood; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1285" xml:space="preserve">for Verjuice of it ſelf
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            would never have paſſed through the Wood: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1286" xml:space="preserve">So, as it ſeemeth, it muſt be
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            firſt in a kinde of vapor before it paſs.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1288" xml:space="preserve">It is eſpecially to be noted, that the cauſe that doth facilitate the Ver-
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            ſion of Air into Water, when the Air is not in groſs, but ſubtilly mingled
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            with tangible Bodies, is, (at hath been partly touched before) for that tan-
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            gible Bodies have an antipathy with Air; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1289" xml:space="preserve">and if they finde any Liquid Body
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            that is more denſe nearthem, they will draw it; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1290" xml:space="preserve">and after they have drawn
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            it, they will condente it more, and in effect incorporateit: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1291" xml:space="preserve">For we ſee that
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            a Spunge, or Wooll, or Sugar, or a Woollen-cloth, being put but in part, in
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            Water or Wine, will draw the Liquor higher, and beyond the place, where
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            the Water or Wine cometh. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1292" xml:space="preserve">We ſee alſo, that Wood, Lute-ſtrings, and the like,
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            do ſwell in moiſt ſeaſons; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1293" xml:space="preserve">as appeareth by the breaking of the ſtrings, the
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            hard turning of the Pegs, and the hard drawing forth of Boxes, and opening
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            of Wainſcot doors, which is a kinde of infuſion; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1294" xml:space="preserve">and is much like to an in-
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            fuſion in Water, which will make Wood to ſwell; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1295" xml:space="preserve">as we ſee in the filling of
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            the Chops of Bowls by laying them in Water. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1296" xml:space="preserve">But for that part of theſe
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            Experiments, which concerneth Attraction we will reſerve into the proper Title
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            of Attraction.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1298" xml:space="preserve">There is alſo a Verſion of Airinto Water, ſeeing in the ſweating of Mar-
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            bles, and other Stones; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1299" xml:space="preserve">and of Wainſcot before, and in moiſt weather. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1300" xml:space="preserve">This
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            muſt be, either by ſome moiſture the Body yieldeth, or elſe by the moiſt Air
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            thickned againſt the hard Body. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1301" xml:space="preserve">But it is plain, that it is the latter; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1302" xml:space="preserve">for that
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            we ſee Wood painted with Oyl-colour, will ſoonergather drops in a moiſt
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            night, than Wood alone; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1303" xml:space="preserve">which is cauſed by the ſmoothneſs and cloſeneſs,
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            which letteth in no part of the vapor, and ſo turneth it back and thickneth
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            it into Dew. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1304" xml:space="preserve">We ſee alſo, that breathing upon a Glaſs, or ſmooth Body,
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            giveth a Dew; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1305" xml:space="preserve">and in Froſty mornings (ſuch as we call Rime Froſts) you
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            ſhall finde drops of Dew upon the inſide of Glaſs-windows: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1306" xml:space="preserve">And the Froſt
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            it ſelf upon the ground, is but a Verſion or Condenſation of the moiſt va-
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            pors of the night, into a watry ſubſtance: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1307" xml:space="preserve">Dews likewiſe, and Rain, are but
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            the returns of moiſt vapors condenſed; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1308" xml:space="preserve">the Dew, by the cold onely of
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            the Suns departure, which is the gentler cold; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1309" xml:space="preserve">Rains, by the cold of that
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            which they call the Middle Region of the Air, which is the more violent
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            Cold.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1311" xml:space="preserve">It is very probable (as hath been touched) that that which will turn
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            Water into Ice, will likewiſe turn Air ſome degree nearer unto Water.
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1312" xml:space="preserve">Therefore try the Experiment of the Artificial turning Water into Ice
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            (where of we ſhall ſpeak in another place) with Air in place of Water, </s>
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