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and lay there for many years. We use them also 

 sometimes, (which may seem strange,) for curing of 

 some diseases, and for prolongation of life in some 

 hermits that choose to live there, well accommodated 

 of all things necessary ; and indeed live very long; by 

 whom also we learn many things. 



&quot; We have burials in several earths, 1 where we 

 put divers cements, as the Chineses do their porcellain. 

 But we have them in greater variety, and some of 

 them more fine. We have also great variety of com 

 posts, and soils, 2 for the making of the earth fruitful. 



&quot; We have high towers ; the highest about half a 

 mile in height ; and some of them likewise set upon 

 high mountains ; so that the vantage of the hill with 

 the tower is in the highest of them three 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 Region. We use these towers, according to 

 their several heights and situations, for insolation, re 

 frigeration, 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. 



&quot; We have great lakes both salt and fresh, whereof 

 we have use for the fish and fowl. 3 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 



1 Habemus etiam alias sepulturas corporum naturalium et maleriarum; 

 non in concavo aliquo, sed in ipsa terrd contigud, ubl complura ccementa 

 condimus, &amp;lt;fc. 



2 stercoratiimum et Jlmorum varietalem magnam, item congestionum et 

 massarum aliarum, cfc. 



8 aves item palustres et aquaticas, omnis generis. 



