that eat the Mortar, which keep not above eight days alive. 1 have obfervcd 
all their parts with a very good Microfcofe, without which, and a great deal 
of attention, 'tis difficult to fee ihem well. 
I have feen other very old Walls altogether eaten, as ihofe of the Tern fie 
at PijmjWhere I coold find no Womns, but the Cavities were full of shells 
of various kinds, diver fly figured and turr/d ; all which 1 believe to be liccle 
Animals'petrified. 
S/?me promjfcHons Ohfervatiofis^ made in Somerfet fiiire , and 
impartediy the ahove-menUoned Dr. Beale. 
His words are thefe, ina Letter tc the Pf^/'/Z/^fr, of the 24. Stpmb^ 
lCi66.ziTeovill in Somerptjhke ^ 
I have two or three remarks, perhaps not unworthy to be recorded for 
further application in Hke cafes of time and place 
!♦ In the Moores froni hence towards Bridgewattr^ in the extreme 
droughtjWe have endured this Sunnroer, force lengths of padure grew much 
fooner whitheredand parched, than the other pafture. And this Parched part 
feem'd to bear the length and Hiape ( in grofs ) of Trees. They digg'd, and 
found, in the place, O^hs indeed, as black as Ebony* And hence they 
have been inftrufted to find and take up many hundreds of Oakes, as a 
neighbour of good credit affures me. This advertifement may be inftrudive 
for other parts, as Kent, Efjex, Lincoln^ 
1. My Cofen Fhilifs of Mor/tague has in his paftures of Socke, about 
three miles off, a large Pool, to which Pigeons refort • but the Cattle will 
not drink of it, no not in the estream wsnt of water in this drought. To the. 
tafte it is not only brackifh, but hath othej loathfome tafts. InaVenice- 
glafs it looked greenifti and clear, ju ft like the moft grcenifh Cider as foon as 
it is perfedly clarified. I boy l*d a pint of it inaPofnet of Bell-Mettall 
( commonly ufed to prefer ve Sweatmeats: ) fuddenly it yeilded a thick froth, 
whence I fcumm'd half a fcoreSpoonfulls • of which the inclofed is a part, 
*Sufferingthe water tobe boyi'd all away, 
it left much of the fame on the fides and fomewhat of a vhnolau 
bottom of the Pofnet^ ^^^f- But the Experiment being mah 
r «^ r ^ * j« -n • ; With neater quantities of this li/ater, 
3. From Lamport towards Brt^ge.wa- which %ueBimlefs mil be done, the 
ter^ Eeles are lo cheap in the frofts of nature and kind of it may he better 
Winter, that they vend them for little* known. 
Their abundance is from hence, that as 
the people walk, in the frofty Mornings^on the banks of river, they difcern, 
towards the edges of the banks, fome parts not ho4r, as the reft, but grtcft ^ 
where fcarching the holes of the banks, they find heaps of Eeles* 
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