Of OXFORDSHIRE. 5 p 



thefweatof the Bodies of Animals, it being much tifed in cuti- 

 cular Difeafes ; but this i think neither can well be, becaufe 'tis 

 a conftantly running $ri/zg, and would fure carry off what might 

 be left of that nature : I therefore wholly leave it to the Readers 

 greater perfpicacity, and (hall content my felf with this fatisfa- 

 ction, that however improbable the thing may feem, that in the 

 mean time 'tis an improbable truth. 



42 . 1 have often fince wiftfd, that I had tryed this water with 

 afolutionof Alum, and feen whether it would have given any 

 thing of that milky precipitation it do's with Vrines' y which be- 

 ing then quite out of my head, is left to the tryal of fome inge- 

 nious perfon that lives thereabout; though before-hand I muft 

 tell him, that I believe it will not fucceed becaufe the urinous fub- 

 ftance feems not to be copious enough. 



43 . Divers might be the ufes of thefe waters, and particularly 

 of the two firft, as good, or perhaps better than that at Clifton, 

 for cutkular Difeafes of Men and Beafts ? - fome whereof I have 

 known carry ed out of thefe Inland Countrys to the Sea fide ; 

 whereas 'tis likely they might (in all the Diftempers for which 

 we have recourfe thither) with much more eafe have had a re* 

 medy at home. 



44. But tar more profitable muft they furely be, if imployed 

 to improve poor and barren Lands, which no queftion might 

 be done by calling them on it. In Chejhire y , near the Salt-pits 

 of Nantwicb, 'tis yearly practiced thus to brine their Fields ; 

 which though never done, but after the fall of great ftore of 

 Rain-waters into their pits, which before they can work again 

 muft be gotten out , and with it fome quantity of their 

 brine too , yet even with thefe but brackifh waters do they 

 fo feafon their adjoyning Lands, that they receive a much more 

 profitable return, then they could have done from any foil or 

 dung. 



45. In Cornwall and Devon/hire, fo confiderable are their im- 

 provements by fea-fand, that it is carryed to all parts as far as 

 they have the advantage of the water, and afterwards 1 or 12 

 miles up higher into the Country on horfes backs : At which I 

 muft confefs 1 marvel not at all, fince we are informed by an in- 

 telligent Gentleman of thofe parts % that where-ever this fand is 



SirHughVhes Jewel-hovfe of Art and Nature, cap. I04. * Fhilofoph. Trdnfacl. Uum. 113. 



ufed, 



