164. 
ee ee eee 
773° 
Experiment 
Solitary, } 
Occonomical — 
, touching cheap 
| Fewel. 
776. 
Expesiment | 
Solitary, | 
touch: ve the 
Gathering of 
Wind for 
Frefbnep. 
777° 
Experiment 
Solitary, 
touching the 
Tryals of 
Airs, 
778. 
Experiment 
Solitary, 
touching 
Increafing of 
Milk in 
Milk- Beafts 
779+ 
Experiment 
Solityyy 
{routhitiges 
Sand of the» 
Nature of — 
| Slap. 
i ie name ao 
OR inte etn generar ellie aceite na se tine 3 tA . 
| are fome Rooms in /taly and Spain for frefhnefs, and gathering the Winds and | 
‘more Milk. Surely, there would be fome better Tryals made of Mixtures 
of Warer in Ponds for Cattel, to make them more Milch, or to fatten them, 
| of HeatintheEarth, and yetthey donot{peak of any Eruption of Fl 
Itwere good to try, inGlafs. works, whether the crude Materials of 
— | e 2 re Say a 
Se a 
Neawural Hiftory ; 
is made of forme tangible Body which hath weight; bur it isnot impoftible, 
perhaps, thatic fhould bemade of Spirit or Vaporin a Body, (which Spirit 
or Vapor hath no weight) fiichas isthe matrerof Jens furum. But chen you 
will fay, thatthat Vapor allo can lat buta fhorctime. To chat it may be an- 
{wered, That by the help of Oyl and Wax, and other Candle: ty the Reais 
may continue, and the wick notburnt. DOD 
Ea-coal laf longet then Char-coal 5 and Char=coal of Roots , being camel 
into great pieces, laft longer then ordinary Char-coal. Turf, and Pest, 
and Cow-/heards are cheap Fewels, andlattlong. Small.coal or-Char-coal pout. | 
ed upon Char-coal make them aft longer... Sedge is acheap Fewel to Brew | 
or Bake with, the rather, becaufe it is good for nothing elfe. Tryal would | 
be made of fome mixture of Sea-coal with Earth, or Chalk; for if that mix- 
ture be, as the Sea-coal-men ule it privily , to make the Bulk of the Coal) 
greater, itis deceit ; butif it be ufed purpofely, and be made known, it is 
faving Sa | ‘wane 
T is at this day inufe inGaza, to couch Pot-sherds or Vefels of Earthin their | 
Walls, to gather the Wind from the top, and to pafs it down in Spouts |} 
into Rooms. Itis a device for ‘refhne fs ingreat Heats. _ And iris faid, there | 
Air in the Heats of Summer; but they be but. Pennings of the Winds, and } 
enlarging them again, and making them reverberate , and goround in ee 
cles, rather then this device of Spouts i in shed ell oi 
Here would be ufed much diligence in the choice of fome Bodies and | 
Tene (as it were) forthe'talting of Ait, to difcover the wholefomenefs Fa 
or unwholefomnefs as well of ;Seafons, as of the Seats of Dwellings. Iris} 
certain, that there be fome Houfes wherein Confitures and Pies, will gather | 
Mould more then in others; and 1 am perfwaded, that apiece of raw Flefh 
ot Fifh, will fooner corrupt in fome Airs then in others, They benoble 
Experiments that can make this dilcovery 5 for they ferve for a Natural 
Divination of Seafons,, better then the Aftronomers can by es oy 
and again, they seagh men where to chufe their dwelling for their better} 
health. ; a J 
eo 
Here is a kinde of Stone about Baden which they stinde to powder, | 
T and putinto Water, whereof Cattel drink, which maketh them give} 
or to keep them Be CMurrain, It oa be, Chalk and ice are of the 
beft. mie if 
|i reported, that inthe Valley near the Mountain Carmel in tudes, inal 
sa Sand, which of all other, hath moft affinity with Glafs, infomuch, - 
cother Minerals laid init, turn to a glaffie fubftance without the fire ; and 
again, Glafs put into it, turnerh into the Mother-fand. ‘The thing is 
ftrange, if ic betrue 5 and itis Jikelieft to be caufed by fome natural Fur 
mingled with Glais, already made and remoniien, 99 not facilitate the: makii 
of Glals with lef3 heal He Ln oe ay ato 
