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miles at least. And these places we call the Upper Region: account- 

 ing the air between the high places and the low, as a Middle Eegion. 

 We use these towers, according to their several heights and situations, 

 for insolation, refrigeration, conservation; and for the view of divers 

 meteors; as winds, rain, snow, hail; and some of the fiery meteors 

 also. And upon them, in some places, are dwellings of hermits, whom 

 we visit sometimes, and instruct what to observe. 



We have great lakes both salt and fresh, whereof we have use for 

 the fish and fowl. We use them also for burials of some natural 

 bodies: for we find a difference in things buried in earth or in air 

 below the earth, and things buried in water. We have also pools, of 

 which some do strain fresh water out of salt; and others by art do 

 turn fresh water into salt. We have also some rocks in the midst 

 of the sea, and some bays upon the shore, for some works wherein is 

 required the air and vapour of the sea. We have likewise violent 

 streams and cataracts, which serve us for many motions: and like- 

 wise engines for multiplying and enforcing of winds, to set also on 

 going divers motions. 



We have also a number of artificial wells and fountains, made 

 in imitation of the natural sources and baths; as tincted upon vitriol, 

 sulphur, steel, brass, lead, nitre, and other minerals. And again we 

 have little wells for infusions of many things, where the waters take 

 the virtue quicker and better than in vessels or basons. And amongst 

 them we have a water which we call Water of Paradise, being, by that 

 we do to it, made very sovereign for health, and prolongation of life. 



We have also great and spacious houses, where we imitate and 

 demonstrate meteors ; as snow, hail, rain, some artificial rains of bodies 

 and not of water, thunders, lightnings; also generations of bodies in 

 air; as frogs, flies, and divers others. 



We have also certain chambers, which we call Chambers of Health, 

 where we qualify the air as we think good and proper for the cure of 

 divers diseases, and preservation of health. 



We have also fair and large baths, of several mixtures, for the cure 

 of diseases, and the restoring of man's body from aref action: and 

 others for the confirming of it in strength of sinews, vital parts, and the 

 very juice and substance of the body. 



We have also large and various orchards and gardens, wherein we 

 do not so much respect beauty, as variety of ground and soil, proper 

 for divers trees and herbs : and some very spacious, where trees and 

 berries are set whereof we make divers kinds of drinks, besides the 

 vineyards. In these we practise likewise all conclusions of grafting 

 and inoculating, as well of wild-trees as fruit-trees, which produceth 

 many effects. And we make (by art) in the same orchards and gar- 

 dens, trees and flowers to come earlier or later than their seasons ; and 



