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Ao Account of four Books, 
E TtaSs^ confifiingof Ohfervationf about the SAL^ 
SEA : An Acchnt of a Statical HTGROSCOFE and its Vfes 3 
t ogether with an Appendix about ih FORCE of the AlKS 
MOISIVREt A^d a Fragment about the NATVRAL and 
PRBTERNArVRAL StJTE of BODIES : B) the Honorable 
R.Boy le» Toali vphich k premfed^ A Sceptical Dialogue about 
thePOSIUVE or PRIFATIFE NjrVRE of COLD: By a 
Member of the Society. London^ 1675, i» 8^. 
THe Dialogue about Cotdft^kntrng is felf firft Id thcBody 
of this Book, though it be named laft in the Title- 
page, we (hall firft of all take notice of the fame ia the Ac- 
count we intend to give of thcfc Tra(9:s. 
One of thefe Dialogifts therefore having taken occafioo 
fromMr«B^?y/eVHiftory ofCold to exprefi his wonder, that 
that Noble and Intelligent Author had in that Hiftory omit- 
ted to tell the Learned world, whether he aflerts Cold to be 
a P^^^*2^^ quality, or a bare Privation of Heat - and aDOtber 
of them having conjedur*d the principal reafon of that fileoce 
to be that Author's uowillingnefs to deliver in abftrufcfub- 
jefts a pofitive opinion before a coropleat Hiftory of the Tha- 
»o«iew^bedeliver'd5 itbcing much fafer to referve that for 
the latter end, when the Nature of the thing inquired into 
may of it felf refult from the Confiderations, fuggefted by the 
precedent matters of fa6t furvcyed and compared together 
Thefe two, Ijay^ having thus made an Introduftion to this 
Difcourfej the Author of it make^hithis bufioefi to examine 
all the weighty Arguments, alWged by Gaffendus ^ feeming 
ftrongly to maintain tht Pojltive nature of Cold 5 but yet in 
ftrift ratiocination found to be not cogent.Where the Author, 
^moDg other particulars^fht wSjthat thofe Bodies muft be Cold 
astofenfe, whofe parts are lefs agitated than thofe of our 
Handsjand confequently Metals,Stooe5Wood,and other Solid 
bodies, as aUo all unmingled Liquors we know, being hea- 
ted by the fire, will grow cold again of themfelves, becaufe 
the adveotitious motloo ceafiog by degrees, cither upon the 
