400 NEW ATLANTIS. 



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 re 

 quired the air and vapour of the sea. We have like 

 wise violent streams and cataracts, which serve us for 

 many motions : 2 and likewise engines for multiplying 

 and enforcing of winds, to set also on going divers 

 motions. 3 



&quot; 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 4 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. 



&quot; We have also great and spacious houses, where 

 we imitate and demonstrate 5 meteors ; as snow, hail, 

 rain, some artificial rains of bodies and not of water, 

 thunders, lightnings ; 6 also generations of bodies in 

 air ; as frogs, flies, and divers others. 



&quot; 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. 



1 loca qiuedam aprica. - motuum viokntorum. 



8 qua vtntos excipiant, multiplicent, et roborent. 



* ubiaqua (current scilicet} virtutem corporum mellus et vivacius, &amp;lt;fc. 



* i. e. exhibit: in quibus imitamenta et reprcesentationes meteororvm ea&- 

 bemui. 



6 The translation adds coruscationum. 



1 This experiment has been tried, especially by Dr. Beddoes of Clifton, 



