±86 Mr. Pafchal to Mr. Ray. 



faw it lying upon the Leaves as well as Bloflbms. I 

 have noted Honey Dews, which do much hurt to our 

 Corn? but never thus early, nor in this Form of 

 M^nna. Taking fome on a broad fmooth Leather, I 

 obferv'd they did not diflblve prefently, but run along 

 as fmall round Seeds, upon the motion of the Lea- 

 ther. 



Chedfey, Apr.l^. 1694. 



Mr. Pafchall to Mr. Ray. 



I Was engaged in a Journey when your laft came^ 

 and obferv'd in both going out and coming home, 

 that taking in both the rifing Senaries I was much 

 lejfs weary than I ufe to be if I travel in a falling Se- 

 nary. This holds with me generally, as I have many 

 times noted* I alfo noted, as I have done frequent- 

 ly, that in the Ebbs, the Mid-heaven about the Ze- 

 nith was clearer, and more free from Clouds in a 

 cloudy, and Nebula in a nebulous Seafon , than ih6 

 Parts nearer the Horizon $ and that it was vice versd 

 in the fides. 



I know one who commonly finds that if he take 

 but a very gentle Purgative in a rifing Senary , or the 

 former part of ^Tide^ it works not till the ebbing Senary 

 begins, and then doth very kindly. And he takes it 

 for a Rule, that in fides the healthy are beft , and 

 the fickly worft > but in Ebbs the contrary holds. He 

 alfo thinks, upon feveral tryals, that the Surface of a 

 wholfome Earth opened in a Zyde 9 emits Steams that 

 are more falutary and healing, and corroborating than 

 the fame doth fend forth in Ebbs. But I flop a ram- 

 bling Pen, and ever reft, 



Chedfey, May 2,5, '1694. 



