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uenthok his Met bodo Booth recite of him, ſaying Nero wass 
the fir that ſodde the waters, and aſter warde cooled them 
With nowe: fo2 the water beeing made colde in this torte, 
receiueth moze quickly the colde, and moꝛe effectually. And 
it is a water moꝛe healthfull ſoꝛ by the ſeething of it, is a- 
uoyded the earthly partes from the water, and it remayneth 
moꝛe ſubtile, and moꝛe thin, and fo it deſtendeth moꝛt ſper⸗ 
dily front the ſkontacke. ee oe. 
Plinie in his naturall hiſtoꝛie, in the nineteenth booke, Pirie, 
complayneth ofthe care that thole of his time had, in kee⸗ 
ping the Snowe of the Minter, fo2 the hotte weather in 
Sommer, ſaying, that they did ouerthꝛowe the mountaines 
by keeping the Snowe from warme weather, making it te 
peruert the order ot nature, that in the monethes Which art 
moſt hot, in the which there is nothing but heate k dꝛieth, 
that the turioſitie of the people is ſo muche that at that time, 
there is ſuch aboundante of ſnowe, as in the monethes in the 
Which there doth naturally fal vpon the ground great quan, 
fitte thereof. Chis Plinie ſapeth, foꝛ in his time and after, it 
was a common thing to keepe the Snow ofthe winter fo2 5 
ſommer . Heliogabalo Empercur had made a great caue Heliagabaln. 
in a lyttle mountaine, from a garden of bisotone, where he 
gathered in the winter very great quantitie or ſno we, bꝛin⸗ 
ging it from the mauntaines that were neereſt to Rome, 
whereof they vſed in time of heate, in their bankets. “x 
Chares Militineus, in the hiſtoꝛie that hee wꝛpteth ol Chaves Vis 
Ring Alexander fayeth, that inthe Cittie ofPewaa moſte ae 
populons Cittie in Aſia, there was oꝛdinarilꝑ thirtie taues 
that in the winter tyme were flied with Snowe, fer the 
Wwhot weather, fo2 the ſeruite of Alexander, ⁊ ſuch as were . 
retapners to him. a 5 
At this dap it is doone, nat onely in Aſta, but alſd in Snow is kept 
many partes ot Affrica, and in all Europe, chiefely in all by mar pe- 
Countries which are vnder the Deminiens of the greate ple. 3 
Surke , and efpecially in Conſtantinople, where the 
mowe is fo much vied, that all the peere it is ſolde in 
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