Salusbury, Thomas
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Mathematical collections and translations (Tome I)
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1667
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do think that it is abſolutely impoſſible to make this enquiry, and
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will ſay unto me,
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Quis menſus eſt pugillo aquas, & terram palmo
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at leaſt in groſs, one may find out the ſame.</
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water, or thereabouts; and then fill it with the water of
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Brent,
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at its Mouth or Fall into the Lake; but in the Lake at the time
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that the
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Brent
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runneth muddy, and after it hath begun to run
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muddy for eight or ten hours, to give the mud time to go as far
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as S.
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Nicolo,
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to iſſue into the Sea; and at the ſame time take
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another Veſſel, like, and equal to the firſt, and fill it with the wa
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ter of the Lake towards S.
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Nicolo,
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(but take notice that this ope
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ration ought to be made at the time when the waters go out,
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and when the Sea is calm) and then, when the waters ſhall have
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ſetled in the aforeſaid Veſſels, take out the clear water, and con
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ſider the quantity of Sand that remains behind, and let it be ſet
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down, or kept in mind: And I am eaſily induced to think, that
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that ſhall be a greater quantity of Sand which ſhall be left in the
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firſt Veſſel, than that left in the ſecond Veſſel. </
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when the
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Brent
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ſhall come to be clear, let both the operations be
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repeated, and obſerve the quantity of Sand in the aforeſaid Veſ
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ſels; for if the Sand in the firſt Veſſel ſhould be moſt, it would
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be a ſign, that in the revolution of a year the
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Brent
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would depoſe
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Sand in the Lake: And in this manner one may calculate to a
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ſmall matter what proportion the Sand that entreth into the Lake,
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hath to that which remains: And by that proportion one may
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judge how expedient it ſhall be for publick benefit. </
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ſeveral times of the year you carefully repeat the ſame operati
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ons, or rather obſervations, you would come to a more exact
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knowledge in this buſineſs: And it would be good to make the
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ſaid operations at thoſe times, when the Lake is diſturbed by
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ſtrong high Winds, and made muddy by its own Mud, raiſed by
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the commotion of the Waters.</
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ſhould be made towards the Mouth of
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Lio,
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at ſuch time as the
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waters flow and ebb, in calm ſeaſons; for ſo one ſhould come to
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know whether the waters of the Lake are more thick at the going
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out, than at the entrance. </
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way of meaſuring Sands and Mud, to ſhew that we are not ſo
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generally, and inconſiderately to pronounce any ſentence, but
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proceed to ſtricter inquiries, and then deliberate what ſhall be
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moſt expedient to be done. </
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ſite examinations, but this ſhall ſerve me for the preſent.</
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be profitable to have it) in inveſtigating more exactly the quan</
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