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the uncommon manures. And the fat flower thus wafhed from the 

 Iran, is let ftand again in its own water for about a week, then be- 

 ing all fetled at the bottom, it is ftirred up again and frefh Pump 

 water added, and ftrained from its fmalleft bran through a Lawn 

 fieve ; which done, they permit it to fettle again, which it does 

 in one day, and then they draw off' the water from it all to a fmall 

 matter .* then ftanding two days more, it at laft becomes fo fixt* 

 that with a burchen broom they fweep the water left at the top, 

 (which is a (limy kind of matter) up and down upon it to cleanfe 

 it from filth, and then pouring it off, they wafli its furface yet 

 cleaner, by dafhing upon it a bucket of fair Pump water. 



178. Which done, they then cut it out of the tubs in great 

 pieces with flharp trowels, and box it up in troughs, having holes 

 in the bottom to drain the water from it, always puting wet cloths 

 between the wood and it, for the more commodious taking it out 

 of the troughs again to dry, which they do within a day ; laying 

 it firft on cold bricks for about two days, which fuck away a great 

 deal of moiilure from it, and after over a Bakers oven four or five 

 days together, which will dry it fufficiently, if intended only to 

 be ground to powder for bairns it is chiefly here ; but if intended 

 to be fold asjlarcb, they then ufe a fiove to give it the fiarch- grain, 

 which the oven will not do. 



179. From the inferior, I proceed to the fuperior Arts and Sci- 

 ences, and others inftrumental to them, for in thefe too, there 

 have been many Inventions and Improvements made in this Vniver- 

 fity. In enumeration whereof, if we begin fo low as the very 

 Elements of Speech, we (hall find that the Reverend and Learned. 

 Dr. Walln, Savilian Profejjbrof Geometry here, firft obferved and 

 difcovered thePhyfical or Mechanical formation of all founds in 

 Speech, as plainly appears from his Tie'dt'ifedeLoquela, prefiVd 

 to his Grammar for the Englijb Tongue , firft publifh'd in the 

 Year 1653. 



1 8c. In purfuance whereof, foalfo found out a way whereby 

 he hath taught dumb per fons (who were therefore dumb becaufe 

 deaf) not only to underftand what they read, and by writing to 

 exprefs their minds, but alfo to (feak and read intelligibly, ac* 

 cording to directions for the artificial pofition and motion of the 

 Organs of Speech, and thereby alfoaffifted others who have fpoken 

 very imperfectly. Of which no more, there being a particular 



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