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likewise, so that they will deceive any man s taste. 

 And in this house we contain also a confiture-house; 

 where we make all sweet-meats, dry and moist, 1 and 

 divers pleasant wines, milks, broths, and sallets, in far 

 greater variety than you have. 



&quot; We have also engine-houses, where are prepared 

 engines and instruments for all sorts of motions. 

 There we imitate and practise to make swifter mo 

 tions than any you have, either out of your muskets 

 or any engine that you have ; and to make them and 

 multiply them more easily, and with small force, 2 by 

 wheels and other means : and to make them strong 

 er, and more violent than yours are ; exceeding your 

 greatest cannons and basilisks. We represent also 

 ordnance and instruments of war, and engines of all 

 kinds : and likewise new mixtures and compositions 

 of gun-powder, wildfires burning in water, and un 

 quenchable. Also fire-works of all variety both for 

 pleasure and use. We imitate also flights of birds ; 

 we have some degrees of flying in the air ; 3 we have 

 ships and boats for going under water, 4 and brooking 



chemistry. From fusil oil, a product of the distillation of spirits from 

 potatoes, itself exceedingly offensive, may be got oil of apples, oil of 

 pears, oil of grapes, and oil of cognac. The oil of pine-apples and that 

 of bitter almonds enable confectioners to imitate perfectly the scent and 

 flavour of pine-apples and bitter almonds respectively, and both, like the 

 perfumes already mentioned, are got from very offensive substances. 

 R. L. K 



1 The translation adds imo et condimus ea cum rebus aliis dulcibus, gra- 

 tissimis, prceter saccharum et mel. 



2 rrwtus reddere faciliores et intentiores, eos muttiplicando per rotas et allot 

 modes. 



8 gradus qitosdam habemus et commodities wcturoe per aerem instar ani- 

 malium alatorum. 



* A boat for going under water was one of Drebbel s inventions ex 

 hibited in 1620. Bacon in the De Augmentis refers to another namely, 

 Drebbel s method of producing cold. R. L. K 



