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eager than thofe ia England. In that I have 

 ©bferved, they require fbme quantity more 

 of Malt to make ftrong Beer than our J?;^- 

 gli^ VVatei^s, and will not bear Soap. I have 

 tryM feveral by infufing of Galls^ and found 

 little difference in the Colours, turning much 

 what the Colour of common Sack in Ta-^ 

 verns. I tried two Wells at Col. BWds^ 

 by the Falls of Jmtes River ^ feveral Wells 

 Bear James Tonm^ fome Springs in the IJle. 

 ef Wight Comty : There's a Spring in the 

 JJLe of Wight J or Nanz,amond Comty ^ vents the 

 greateft Source of Water I ever faw, ex- 

 cepting Holy-well in Wales^ but I had not op- 

 portunity to make Experiments thereof. 

 I tried likewife fome Springs on the Banks 

 of Tork. River^ in New Kent and Gloucefier 

 County^ but found them vary very little as 

 to Colour. 1 could not try any thing as 

 to their fpecifick Gravity, having neither 

 Aquapoife, nor thofe other Glafles I had 

 contrived peculiarly for making fuch Ex- 

 periments, they being all loft with my other 

 things. I had Glafles blown would hold 

 about five Ounces, others about ten Oun- 

 ces, with Kecks fo fmall , that a Drop 

 would make a confiderable Variation ; with 

 thefe 1 could make much more critical and 

 fatisfaftory Obfervations as to the fpecifical 

 Gravity of Liquors, having critical Scales, 

 than by any other way yet by me tried. I 

 ufed this method to weigh Urines, which 

 Pradice I would recommend to the Inquifi- 

 tive and critical Phyficians. \ had made ma- 

 ny Obfervations hereof, but all Notes were 



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