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and we use them for all coagulations, indurations, refrigerations, and 

 conservations of bodies. We use them likewise for the imitation of 

 natural mines, and the producing also of new artificial metals, by com 

 positions and materials which we use and lay there for many years. 

 We use them also sometimes, which may seem strange, for curing of 

 some diseases, and for prolongation of life in some hermits that choose 

 to live there, well accommodated of all things necessary, and, indeed, 

 live very long ; by whom also we learn many things. 



&quot; We have burials in several earths, where we put divers cements, 

 as the Chinese do their porcelain ; but we have them in greater variety, 

 and some of them finer. We also have great variety of composts and 

 soils for making of the earth fruitful. 



&quot; We have high towers, the highest about half a mile in height, 

 and some of them likewise set upon high mountains ; so that the 

 advantage of the hill with the tower is, in the highest of them, three 

 miles at least. And these places we call the upper region, accounting 

 the air between the high places and the low as a middle region. We 

 use these towers, according to their several heights and situations, for 

 insolation, refrigeration, conservation, and for the view of divers 

 meteors ; as winds, rain, snow, hail, and some of the fiery meteors 

 also. And upon them, in some places, are dwellings of hermits, whom 

 we visit sometimes, and instruct what to observe. 



&quot; We have great lakes, both salt and fresh, whereof we have use 

 for the fish and fowl. We use them also for burials of some natural 

 bodies; for we find a difference in things buried in earth, or in air 

 below the earth, and things buried in water. We have also pools 

 of which some do strain fresh water out of salt, and others by art do 

 turn fresh water into salt. We have also some rocks in the midst of 

 the sea, and some bays upon the shore for some works wherein arc 

 required the air and vapour of the sea. We have likewise violent 

 streams and cataracts, which serve us for many motions ; and likewise 

 engines for multiplying and enforcing of winds, to set also agoing 

 divers motions. 



&quot; We have also a number of artificial wells and fountains, made in 

 imitation of the natural sources and baths ; as tinctcd upon vitriol, 

 sulphur, steel, brass, lead, nitre, and other minerals. And again, we 

 have little wells for infusions of many things, where the waters take 

 the virtue quicker and better than in vessels or basins. And amongst 

 them we have a water which we call water of paradise, being by 

 that we do to it made very sovereign for health and prolongation of 

 life. 



&quot; We have also great and spacious houses, where we imitate and 

 demonstrate meteors, as snow, hail, rain, some artificial rains of Ixxlics, 

 and not of water, thunders, lightnings : also generations of bodies in 

 air, as frogs, flics, and divers others. 



&quot;We have also certain chambers, which we call chambers of 

 health, where we qualify the air, as we think good and proper for the 

 cure of divers diseases, and preservation of health. 



&quot; We have also fair and large baths, of several mixtures, for the 



