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4 Experiment 
26. 
Experriment 
Solitary, 
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quality of 
Mans Flefh. € 
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Experiment: 
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touching! thes 
Fa Arun 
Tranfauraric 
on of SEF ine | 
to Water. 
‘| called Mots Plage. In this common Experiment, the: caufe of the enclofut 
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Natural Hiflory, 
of the Bubble isfor that the Appetite to refift Separation, or Difcontinu-| 
| ance: (which in folid Bodies is ftrong) is alfo in Liquors, though fainter and 
| weaker : As wefee in this of the Bubble; we fee italfo in little Glafles ¢ f ki 
Spittle that Children make of Rufhes ; and in Caftles of Bubbles, w hich 
| they make by blowing into Water, having» obtained a little degreeiof} - 
| Tenacity by Mixture of Soap: We fee it alfo in the Stillicides.of Waser, 
| which, if there be Water enough to follow, will draw themfelves into al] 
| {mall Thred; becaufe they will difcontinue ; | but if there.be no remedy, | 
then they caft themfelves into round Drops; which is the Figure, that) 4 
faveth the Body moft from Difcontinuance: The famereafon is of the|| i 
Roundnefs of the Babble, as wellfor the Skin of Water, as forthe Airwith-| 
| in: For the 47 likewife avoideth Difcontinuance'; and thereforercafteth it | — 
felfinto a round Figure. And for the ftop: and ‘arreft of the 4iralittle|| — 
| while, it fheweth, that: the —/ir of it {elf hath little, or no Appetite of a 
Afcending. 7 | “di Jo oni bvay 
ly bene baa 
He Rejection, which I continually ule, sof Experimems (though reid 3 
peareth not) is infinite ; but yet if an Experiment be: probable in the | 
Work, and of great ufe, I receiveit, but deliverit'as doubtful. It was) 
reported: by afober man, thatan /rtificial Spring may be made thus: Finde | — 
| out ahanging Ground, where there is a good quick Fall of Rain-water. Lay | 
| a Half-Troughof Stonc, of agoodlength, three or four foot deep with- | 
_in:thefame Ground; with one end upon the high Ground; the other upon | — 
| thelow:: Cover the Trough with Brakesagood thicknefs, and caft Sand | — 
upomthe top of the Brakes: You fhall fee (faith he) that afterfome fhowres | 
are pat, the lower end of the Trough willbelikea Spring of Water; which| . 
is no marvel, if ithold, while the Rain-waterilafteth; but he faid it would | ~ 
| continue long time after the Rain is paft : As if the Water did multiply it | 
felf upon the Air, by the help of the Coldnefs:and Condenfation of the | — 
| Earth, and the Confort of the firft Water. 9.) - a oulli tus od30h @ 
WHe French: (which put off thename of the French: Difeafes unto the nafidat ‘4 
To the Difeafe of: Naples) doreport, Thai atthe fiegeof Naples, there | 
were'certain wicked Merchants that barrelled up Mans Flesh (of fomethat | 
Jvad been lately flain'in Barbary) and fold it: for Tanney ;> andthat, ‘upon | * 
that foul'and high Nourifhment, was the Original of that Difeafe. Which }. 
may well be; For chat itis certain, that the Canibals, in the VWVeft-Indies, ea 
Mans Flesh; andthe VV eft- indies were full of the Pox when they were firkt } 
| difcovered ; And at thisday the Mortaleft poyfons,, pra@ifed by the 7ref-Tmdis} 
‘ans, havefome mixture of the Blood, or Fat;or Flefhof Mant And divers} 
Witches, and: Sorcereffes, as well amoneft the Heathen, aolamonpéiitiie ft 
| Cbriftians, have fed upon Mans fleth; tocaid (as it feemeth) their Imaginationg | 
with hich and foul Vapors. Pa set seclont shee ae 
| etactnat thac there be thefeways (in likelihood)-of Verfion of Vapors |, 
| or 24 ir, into: Walter and Moifbures> The firffiis Cold, which doth manie | 
tefthy Condenfes sasi we. fee in the contra@ing of! the ir inthe Weatl 
Glafs;‘\ wherebycit is adegree nearerto Water. We fee itialf inthe: 
ration of Springs; whichthex Ancienssithought (very probably) to bema 
the Ferfion of dix into VFarer, holpem-by the: Ref,: whichthow4ir hathi¢n4) 
thofeparts, whereby it cannor-diflipate. And by the coldnels of Rocks fot|) 
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