NATURAL HISTORY. 



CENTURY IV. 



Experiments in consort touching the clarification of 



liquors, and the, accelerating thereof. 

 ACCELERATION of time, in works of nature, may well 

 be esteemed &quot; inter magnalia nature.&quot; And even 

 in divine miracles, accelerating of the time is next 

 to the creating of the matter. We .will now there 

 fore proceed to the inquiry of it : and for accelera 

 tion of germination, we will refer it over unto the 

 place where we shall handle the subject of plants 

 generally, and will now begin with other accele 

 rations. 



301. Liquors are, many of them, at the first 

 thick and troubled ; as muste, wort, juices of fruits, 

 or herbs expressed, &c. and by time they settle and 

 clarify. But to make them clear before the time is 

 a great work, for it is a spur to nature, and putteth 

 her out of her pace : and, besides, it is of good use 

 for making drinks and sauces potable and serviceable 

 speedily. But to know the means of accelerating 

 clarification, we must first know the causes of clari 

 fication. The first cause is, by the separation of the 

 grosser parts of the liquor from the finer. The 



