PHYSIOLOGICAL REMAINS, 221 



Certain sudden thoughts of the Lord BACON S, set down 

 by him under the title of EXPERIMENTS FOR PROFIT, 



MUCK of leaves : muck of river, earth, and chalk: 

 musk of earth closed, both for salt-petre and muck : 

 setting of wheat and peas : mending of crops by 

 steeping of seeds : making peas, cherries, and straw 

 berries come early : strengthening of earth for often 

 returns of radishes, parsnips, turnips, etc. making 

 great roots of onions, radishes, and other esculent 

 roots : sowing of seeds of trefoil : setting of woad : 

 setting of tobacco, and taking away the rawns : graft 

 ing upon boughs of old trees : making of a hasty cop 

 pice : planting of osiers in wet grounds : making of 

 candles to last long : building of chimnies, furnaces, 

 and ovens, to give heat with less wood: fixing of log 

 wood : other means to make yellow and green fixed : 

 conserving of oranges, lemons, citrons, pomegranates, 

 etc. all summer : recovering of pearl, coral, turcoise 

 colour, by a conservatory of snow : sowing of fennel : 

 brewing with hay, haws, trefoil, broom, hips, bramble- 

 berries, woodbines, wild thyme, instead of hops, this 

 tles: multiplying and dressing artichokes. 



Certain experiments of the Lord BACON S, about the 

 commixture of liquors only, not solids, without heat or 

 agitation, but only by simple composition and settling. 



SPIRIT of wine mingled with common water, al 

 though it be much lighter than oil, yet so as if the 

 first fall be broken, by means of a sop, or otherwise, 

 it stayeth above ; and if it be once mingled, it 



