The confers 
ation of the 
. Snowe. 
Charles Mi- 
litineus. 
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; 
> Augu- 
Fine. 
The proper- 
ties of ftraw. 
2 Ofthe Snow 
with ſnobo euery winter, but p ſõmor being tome, al is mel⸗ 
ted, in ſuch fort that there remaineth in them no ſnowe. The 
kinges of Granado bering in all their royall authoꝛitie dyd 
bfe in the months of great heat and time of ſommer, to dꝛink 
theſe waters, which they dꝛunk made cold with ſnow, as our 
hyſtoꝛy writer Alonfo de Palenſio dooth referre bimfelfe to 
that which he wꝛate ol the waters of Granado. 
Let the ſnow be kept in cold and dꝛy places, foꝛ the mops 
ſture and heate are his contrary,¢ the wind which commeth 
of the ſunne, much moꝛe, betauſe it is whot ¢ moiſt. They doo 
tread oʒ pꝛeſſe the ſnowe when they put it in ſellers ta keep, 
that it may the longer ẽdure x melt leffe, Charles Militineus 
doth fap thatthe ſnow mutt be kept trové ¢ touered W leaues 
and bowes of an Oke, betauſe in this ſoꝛte it is moſt confers 
ued. That which is brought to this cittie, they bing it in 
fratue,fo it dooth tonſerue it moze then any other thing it 
dooth melt the leſſe: which the gloꝛidus S. Auguſtme dosth 
thew vs in the ſirſt booke of the city of God, where he laieth, 
who gaue vnto } ſtra a cold vertue ſo ſtrong, that it kepet⸗ 
the ſnow which is molt colde ¢ conſerueth it? and who gaue 
it like wile fo iw hot ¢ ferut̃t a vertue, that the gran fruit not 
being rype, as apples and other like, it dooth ripe and ſeaſon 
them that they may be eaten: in the whiche it is ſeene what 
Diners vertues the fra hath, ſeeing that it dooth contrary: 
effects which dooth conferne the ſnow / dooth make ripe the 
greene fruite, and dooth moꝛe then the water, which is made 
colde in the dea we, oꝛ in other thing: by putting any veſtell 
whichis amongeſt ſtrawe, it dooth tonſerue his coldneſle all 
the dag. jaar. 
There were vſed tivo pꝛincipall wayes in theſe times to 
make cold with ſnowe: the one is, to put the bottelles oꝛ the 
veſlels ofthat as you wil make cold, buried in the inolw, this 
is don tober there is much ino w, ⁊ this doth make very cold 
and quickly:the ſame is like wiſe don with the water frofe. 
There is another way te make cold which is moze c aſ ⁊ it 
isan Soh itte nde which is to fila befkattpat liehe 
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