456 NATURAL HISTORY. 



placing of the tangible parts in length or transverse, 

 as it is in the warp and the woof of textiles, more in 

 ward, or more outward, &c. The fifteenth is the 

 porosity or imporosity betwixt the tangible parts, 

 and the greatness or smallness of the pores. The 

 sixteenth is the collocation and posture of the pores.* 

 There may be more causes ; but these do occur for 

 the present. 



Experiment solitary touching induration by sympathy. 



847. Take lead and melt it, and in the midst of 

 it, when it beginneth to congeal, make a little dint or 

 hole, and put quicksilver wrapped in a piece of linen 

 into that hole, and the quicksilver will fix and run no 

 more, and endure the hammer. This is a noble in 

 stance of induration, by consent of one body with 

 another, and motion of excitation to imitate ; for to 

 ascribe it only to the vapour of lead, is less probable. 

 Query, whether the fixing may be in such a degree, 

 as it will be figured like other metals ? For if so, you 

 may make works of it for some purposes, so they 

 come not near the fire. 



Experiment solitary touching honey and sugar. 

 848. Sugar hath put down the use of honey, inso 

 much as we have lost those observations and prepa 

 rations of honey which the ancients had, when it 

 was more in price. First, it seemeth that there was 

 in old time tree-honey, as well as bee-honey, which 

 was the tear or blood issuing from the tree : inso 

 much as one of the ancients relateth, that in Tre- 



