being rcd-hot, I applied the Nonh*poIe to another Lath- nail coId> 
and untoucht before, which it took up but faintly, yet held it fufpend- 
cd for fome time. 
3. Two or three daies after, I took the fame Loadftone, and found 
that it attracted then as ftrongly, as before it was caft into the Fire. 
Whence I inferr'd, that the Fire fomewhat leflen'd its A ttraitive fa- 
cultyi but did not deprive the Stone of it. 
Cyder- feafon approaching , I know not how to conceal from 
the delicate and curious Cyder-drinker Tthough I my felf find the 
pleafures of all liquors in one,even that of fountain * xhh Gendcmans 
water the notice of a liquor as commendablcas conftant drink is fpring 
yet rare. It is a compofition of the Juyces of good ^"'^^^' 
Cyder-apples and Mulberries, producing the beft tafted and moft 
curioufly coloured liquor, that many ever faw or tafted, Ot which 
the experiment may be eafily made by thofethat arefurnitht with 
Mulberry-trees, without any confiderable cofV. 
jin Account of fome Books. 
L iheHlsrORrofthe%S>YAL S O €1 EtT of LO NT) 07<l^, 
for the K^Avetncement of 8 XP E.R IME NT A L Fhilofo^hy^ by 
rHO..SP RAT. 
IT was indeed highly fatabic, that the of the iS<?y4/ Experi- 
menting Societj {hould be dedicated, as the Candid Author it 
hath done, to that Khg^ who is the frfl of all the Kings of Europe » that 
confirmed this Noble Dtfignof ExperimentSi hoih by His own 1k- 
ample, and by a publick Eftablifhment. 
The Difcourfe it felf, which is modeft anielegant; isdtvrcfcdby 
the Author into thefe three general Heads : 
The Firfi gives a ftiort view of the Ancient and Modern Phifofophy 5 
and of the moCt Famous Attempts that have been made for its Ad^ 
n/ancement^hy the ChaUeanSy Egyptians ^ Grecians^ Arabians , Romans^ , 
of old, and then, by feveral Ntx^ voaies of Fhilofophy ^inihe compafs of 
our memones,and the Age before us, reprefenting what hath been at- 
tempted by the Modern Dogmatiftj^ the Revivers of ancient Seffs^ the 
late Experimenters^ the ChjmifiSy and ih^ Writers o( Particular Suk^ 
yeffs .: All which he deduceth, to the enJ, that by obfcrving, wherein 
^hcrs have exc^Red^ and wherein they have bcea thought xofaiK he 
