Chap. 17. A Tnttifitf BODIES. 



6rve themfelvei in theitr liquid fbrru> in defiance of thf a/fault- 

 ing cold j whites their fellows, regaining by their departure 

 rnoregroflc and earthy then they were before, yielded to the 

 conquerour^they could not (Lift away from, and fo were drycd 

 nd condensed in ice : which when the mariners thawed, they 

 found it like fair? water, without any fpirits in it or comfort- 

 ing heat to the ftomack.. 



This manner of condenfation, which we hare defcribed in the 

 freeing of beer, is the way nioft pra&ifed by nature ; I mean, 

 for immediate condenfation ( for condenfation is fecondarily, 

 wherefoever there is rarefaction which we have determine*! tp 

 be an eflheCt, of heat. ) And the courfe of it is : that a multitude 

 of earthy and dry bodies being driven againft any liquon they 

 eafily divide it, by means of their denfity, their dryneffe, and 

 their JittkneiTc ( all which in this cafe do accompany one ano- 

 ther j and are by us determined to be powerful! dividers- ) and 

 wkcn they are gotten into it, they partly fuck into phcir own, 

 pores the wet and diffused parts of the liquide body ; and partly 

 they make them (wlaeu thsrafelves are full) ftick fa ft to their 

 dry fides, and become as a glew to hold themfelves ftrongly to- 

 gether. And thus th*y dry up the liquor ; an4 by the naturall 

 pwrling of gravity they cotwraS it into a letter room. No o- 

 therwife then when we force mucb wind or water into a bottle; 

 and by preffing k more and more, make it ly* clofer then of its 

 own nature it would do. Or rather, as wKe adis being mjn- 

 ^Led with water; both tho/c (ubttafiees do ftkk fQelofeEopne 

 another, chat tliey take up Icflfc room then they did each apart. 



Tin* is the method of froft, anj f (how, and pf ice, j^cnh 

 naturall and artificiall; for in natural! feeling, or^w-arily tlve 

 north or nortKea/i vvjad l>y its force foripgeth attd drivccli inco 

 ours liquours, fueh earthy bodies s it bath gwbred fr^m ropW 

 covered with low; \vhkh facing mixed with the light vapours 

 whereof the wind is made, do eanly fiiidwayin^o die liquors, 

 and then they dry them into that con fifti#: which vyecjil ice. 

 WiwcJ^ in token of the wind k hath in it, fwiminoth p/5n thp 

 water, and in the jyeflcll r bere it is i\aade,rifeth bighec fae-n (J?e 

 water dsd wheFcof k is tompofcd : and ordioadly U bre^^i 

 from the ("ides of the vcflell, fo giving way loinpre vyiwi ti> 

 *omcia f auci freefc deeper ajultliicker, 



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