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As to tJm^r^^ way oi dxdBag Uatker^t h to f^eobfert'd; 
that thi^ir Leather is Dothing fo ftrong and ferviccable as chat 
in England 'j an aflured proof whereof if the Weariog, And 
though itba eotntnoaly reported, that the leather ihele 
pam^though thin and fupple^ will hold out water ^ yet this is 
to be uoderftood , that the Turks in their winter-boots/ be- 
iweeo the Jipiog and the leather, pat a Sear^cloth, which beio]^ 
(jurioufly fow'4 in the feasts, will keep out water, though you 
put them 10 it for divers hours together. la Gleaning of their 
leather, they ufe VmQ md Album Grseumi and inftead of 
Barks of trees, they employ Valoma, a fort of acorn growing 
on the Oakes. I atn perfuaded, that our Acorns in Englmd , 
if they could be (par'd for it, would pef form iht like effi a^and 
perhaps better 5 feeing that many times th^Faloma burns the 
Leather fo much as to make it lircle ferviceable 5 whereas our 
acorns are probably more tempf rate^and fo might better ferve 
thcturp^ 
^ An Accompt of two Booksv 
h Vini Rhenani, imprimk B AC C A RA CENS I S, Anatomw 
Chymica, i Joh. Da vide Portzio Fhih et Med. DMeidel-^ 
hergs^i&j2. in 12 H 
^His Author treateth in this Book of the Soile proper for 
Rhinifb Wines of thckindsofthat VineanderapejanJ 
of the Muft, Wine, Spirit^Tartar^ Vinegar, and particularly of 
the two SaltSy the Acidmd Alcali, as the chief Ingredients of 
Wine, and according to Tashenm^ of all natural things^ 
Speaking of the fertility of the 5^^?/7 proper for Vines, and^ 
difcourfingof the Nitrous Salt coming down in rain and fnow, 
he delivers away of collediing that Salt 5 of which we leave 
the skilful to judge upon the reading of the Book. 
The Grapehc affirms to be compounded of an Acid and a 
prevalent Alcali 3 ol^erving, that grapes that are thin-skio'tf 
grow fooner ripe, and thrive even in a temperat climat^ and 
taking alfo notice, that ftruck with hail when they are big and? 
begin to ripen,, they hardeo afld never grow full ripe. 
