38 The Statural Hi/lory 



that it licks, which I take to be as certain as that 'tis not fo by 

 torrefailion ; then if it be poffible we may have fuch Earths, as 

 give the Seatrxofefalino-fulphureou* tinctures, it's altogether as 

 poflible we may have fuch waters too, without any neceflity of 

 fuch communication. 



38. If it be objected, That the waters of the Sea fend forth 

 no fuch flench as we find thefe do, let it be confidered that the 

 flux of the one, and ftagnation of the other, may well occafion 

 fuch a difference ; whil'ft the Sea-waters are in their motion, 'tis 

 true their [alts and fulphurs fo involve one another, that their 

 mutual imbraces hinder 2W evaporations ; but whenever they come 

 to ftand but awhile, as they do moft times in the holds of Ships, 

 then their fulphurs evaporate with as great a ftink, as can be fup- 

 pofed ours have here at Land ; and this the Ships pump doth fre- 

 quently witnefs, to the great content of all that travel by Sea? it 

 being a fure indication of the Ships health, which abundantly 

 recompences the inconvenience of theftench. 



39. Such another I have heard of in the Parifh of Chadling- 

 ton, in the grounds of one M r Rawlifon there, not differing in any 

 thing at all from the former, but only it's fomwhat ftronger of 

 the marine fait : this I muft confefs I faw not my felf, yet having 

 my information from fo knowing a Perfon, and of fo unqueftion- 

 able fidelity as Sir Thomat Pennyfton, I doubt not at all the truth of 

 thething. 



48. A fait firing there is alfo at Clifton near Deddington, with- 

 in a Quoits caft of the River fide : but its faline particles are fo 

 fubtilized in the water,, that they fcarcely can at all be perceived 

 by the palate, and yet it lays them down plentifully enough on 

 the ftones and Earth over which it paffes. What fort of fait this 

 is, I care not to determine, becaufe it will be difficult not to 

 miftake ; for upon evaporation of about a gallon, it yielded a 

 fait of a urinous taft : which at firft I muft confefs was fo furpri- 

 zingtome, that I could not but think, that during myabfence, 

 fome waggifh fellow had either put a trick on me, or elfe that I 

 might have ufed fome unfit veffel ; whereupon I caufed a new 

 earthen pot to be bought, well glafed, and then repeated the Ex- 

 periment very carefully, but found in the end all had been honeft 

 about me, for I had zfalt again of the very fame taft. 



41. How this fliould come about I cannot divine, unlefs from 



the 



