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tbeKitchlnj would^ as often as (he was bid to bring her Salt^ 
or couldelfe comeat it^ fill her Pockets therewith, and eat 
it} as other children doe Sugar ; whence ihe was fo dried up^ 
and grown fo ftiff, that (he could not ftirre her limbsj and 
was thereby ftarved to death. 
That Learned and OhkvvmgDo&otJohn Beal^ upon the 
perufal of the forementioned Nu^h^ 6, was pleafed to com* 
inunicate this Note 
To your Obferva tion^of Milk in Veinesj I caa add a Pi5^- 
«^«*e/^(;itt of fome refeoablance to it 3 which I received above 
2o* years agoe (torn Th0mas Daj^ an Apothecary in Cam'^ 
bridge md. That hitnfclf let a man blond fn the arme^by 
order ofDoftor Bade^ a Phyfitian there The mans bloud 
was white as Mi k, as it run out of his arme^ it had a littlcdl^. 
lute rcdncfs,but itamediatelys as it fell into the Veffel, it was 
prefcntly white ; and it continued like drops of Milk on the 
pavement, where ever it fell. The conjcdure which the 
I (aid Phyfitian hid of the caufe of this appearance* was^ that 
the Patient had much fed on Fiflb ; affirming wichallat hat he 
had foon been a Leper, if not prevented by Phy fick' 
Ai^ayoffrefermnglceandSnowbyChaffe. 
The Ingenious Mr. William Ball did communicate the re- 
lation hereof^ as he had received it from his Brotherg now rc^ 
fiding at Li'vome^ as follows s 
The SnoWyOr fce-houfes are here commonly built on the 
fide of a fteep hillj being only a deep hole in the groundj by 
which meanes, they esifily makea paffageout from rhe bot- 
tom of it J to carry aw^y all the water^ which, if it (hould re- 
main ftagnating thereinj would mvlt the Ice and Snow but 
they thatch it wich flraWj iu the ftiape of a Saucepan cover , 
, that the rain may not come at it.The fides ((uppofing it dry) 
.fhey line not with any thing, as is done in St Jedmes^s Park^ 
by reafon of the moiftnefs of the ground. This Pit they fill 
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