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lavifli in its encomiums. He afferts, that fnow, 

 which 's colleded from the tops of high fandy 

 mountains, at a diftance from any towns or houfes, 

 where it has fallen after a long Iharp froft, in calm 

 weather, and lirs at a confidcrable height above 

 the furface of the earth, produces water, " which 

 is thr pureft of all, quite immutable, capable of 

 being kept for many years, and is a fingular re- 

 medy for inPi mmations of the eyes" **. 



Dr. Rotheram having mentioned the efficacy 

 of fnow-water in burns, and in fertilizing the 

 ground, relates the following experiment, which, 

 though it may appear of a trivial nature, he very 

 juftly remarks, is not below the notice of aphilo- 

 fopher. 



" One effe6l of fnow, ofwhich I do not remember 

 any where to have read, is, that a certain quantity' 

 of it„ taken up freih from the ground, and mixed 

 jn a flour-pudding, will fupply the place of eggs, 

 and make it equally light. The quantity al- 

 lotted is two table fpoonfuls, infliead of one Qgg ; 

 and if this proportion be much exceeded, the pud- 

 ding will not adhere together, but will fall to 

 pieces in boiling. I aflert this from the expe- 

 rience 



• Bocrh. Chcm. vol. i. p. 349. London edit. 1735. 



