4^4* The fifteenth Bboke of 



cake cither r6pofe or repaft under it, are fure to die prefently* And hereupon it commeth, that Q 

 thofe poyfons wherewith arrow heads be envenomed^ after ft)mc were called in times paft Taxi- 

 ca^which now wee name Toxica-. But to conclude^ it is fecnc by good proofe, that if a brafen 

 *sedgc or fpikc be driven into the very bodic of the tteejitioofeth ail the venomous naturcj and 

 , becommech bar mciede^ 



- GHA-ip;- Xr. ■ . 



}^ Horv to make all kinds of Pitch, The manner how Cedrium is made, 

 t^Jfo^of thicke pitch yhm it is made ^ ajnd in tphat 

 fort RoJin is boiled, 



THc liquid Pitch or Tarrc ttifdughout all Europe, is boiled out of tlic Torch tree : and thi^ 

 kind of Pitch fervethtocalkcfhipswithail, and fdr iliany other efes. Now themanner of . 

 drawing Tarrc out ofthistreejis, to cut the wood thereof into peeces^ and when they are 

 j)iled up hollow into an heape,to make a grcarfire within^asit were under afurnacejbcingciaicd 

 withouf-forth : thus with the heat of the fire it doth frie andfeeth againe. The firft liquour that 

 fweatcth and ifliicth forth, runneth clearc as water, inach^nnellorpipcmadc fortheputpofe « 

 and this the Syrians call Cedrium : which is of fuch force and efficaeiej that in ^Egypt they ufe 

 to cmbaulme thcdead bodies of men and women departed5and kecpe them from putrifadion. 

 At the next running it is thickdrjand this fecond liquor is very Pitch. Howbeitjthis is caft again 

 into certain coppers or cauldrons of braffcjand together with vinegre fbdden a fecond timCjUn- 

 ^Paimpip, till it come to a thicke ^confiftcncc : and when it is thus tbickencd, it taketh the name of Brutian I 

 /. Stone- piccb. pitph^good oncly for tuns^bkrrelsjand Other fuchvtflels.Mtich like it is to the former Piichjbut 

 tha t it is more glutinous and claiiimic, redder alfo of colour, and more fattie. And thus much 

 concerning die Pitch made of the Torch-tree. • ' 



As for that which commeth of the Pitch frccjthe Rofin thereof is drawn with red hot ftoncs in 

 certain veflcls made oi firong and thicke Okcn plankesi or^in default thereof the wood is clo- 

 ven into peeces^and piled logethcrjafter the order of a charcolc hearth^ and fo the pitch boilcth 

 foorth . The ufc hereof, when it is beaten into a kind of meale or powder, is to bee put into 

 winCjand it is of a blacker colour than the reff. The lame pitch-rofin, if it be boiled more light- 

 fy with watcr,& be let to run through a ftrainer,comm€th to a rcddifh colour,and is glewie: and 

 fFicreupon it is called Stilled pitch. And for this purpofe lightly ,is let by the more grofle & faul- K 

 ticfubftanceof therolin^togetherwiththebarkeofthetice. Butthe'reisanodier coirrpofition 

 and manner of making pitch that ferveth for headic wine,called Crapula. For the Sower of the 

 rofin is taken greeneand frefh, as it diftilleth from the tree j together tvitha good qiiantitie 

 of li-nalljthinnCjandfhortfptlsorchips of the tree plucked away with the fame: the fame are 

 fliired and minced fo finall, as they may paifc through a ficvc or a riddle : which done, all is put 

 into Icalding wafer, and there boilednmtill it be incorporate with the water. Thefat fubftance 

 fliat is ftrained and preflcd from hence, is the excelieht'piteh-rofin, hard to come by, and not 

 to bee found inlcalie, unlcflc it bee in few places under the Alpes ; and fingulargoodit is in 

 Phy ficke. Now for ro make it pafifing white, there mutt bee taken one gallon of the tofin, and £ 

 fodden in two gallons of rainc-water. But fomethinkeitthe better way, to feeth it a whole 

 day together at a foft fire,without any matter at all, in a pan or vcflell of latton. Others there be 

 likewife that boile Terpentine in a bote frying pan, andare of opinion,that this is the beft of all 

 toriiers. And the next to it in goodneflcjisthe Lentiskc rbfin,called Maftich, 



;r, ^ of the Pitch Zopijpi, which Is [craped from [hips^ and of.Sapim\ Alfo^ 

 'f'' ' what trees artin requeji for thftr tm(^sr, 



I' t would not bee forgotten, that the Greckes have a ccrtaine Pitch, fcraped together with ^ 

 Waxe fromfhips that have lien at fea j which they call Zopi(ra(fo curious are men to make 

 ^ ' txpcrimcnts and trie concJufion&iii cVctythingt) and this is thought tobee much more effe- j 

 ;^tiall for all ^natters that pitch and rofin are good fbf, by reafon of the fall: temperature that i% A 



ii^rh gotten by the fait water; ^ ^ 



. For 



