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An Enlargement 
of the Obfervations, formerly publifht Numb. 27, made and 
generoufly imparted by that Learn d and Inquifitive Phyfv- 
tian^ Dr. Stubbes. 
I, TT can hardly be defcribed, how thofe fubftances, formerly 
I fpecified to you, viz, Sweet- Meats, Sugar of Rofes, crc. 
were diftblved by the Steams of the Sea $ thofe and fuch like 
Compofitions not only giving again, but being in the fubflantiaf 
parts fo penetrated, that I did then call to mind, what M. Ga- 
renek^s obferves of Sugar, how it intenerates the ffefli, and difpo- 
feth tq tabidnefs Englifh Ladies : upon alteration of weather,wheiv 
the Sugar, as Salts in moift weather, becomes fluid in the body, 
andproduceth effe&s not difcernabte at other times. I doubt 
not but the Saline Atomes in the Sea, and in Liquors, flote in lit- 
tle, compofures,, till a principle of another nature occafions their 
folution. And thus we fee in Difeafes, that it is not the bare 
alteration of weather, but fome peculiar mixtures in the Air, that 
incline to, or increafe Confumptkrs and Coughs fince often- 
times the greateft Raines are lefs fatal to fuch bodies, as hazy 
weather renders dangeroufly indifpofed.. All the alteration, our 
Sweet-Meats, and Lozenges, and Gamons of Bacon underwent 5 
mull: be attributed to fome peculiar principle in the Air: For, in 
all our Voyage to the Barbadoes we had not one Shower, that ! 
remember. And if any will have the Air moift, whileft a con- 
ftant Levant ( that is, a drying*) Wind fills our Sailes, at leaft 
during the long reach , how comes it to pafs, that fomuch heat 
joyn'd with moifture dorh not occafion putrid Feavers < And 
why in all that Journey, and after in Jamaica , when the GlalTes 
for many weekes ftood open and uncovefd 5 did not the Lixiviate' 
Salts of Wormwood and Jfh contradi any moifture < I am fure, I ne- 
ver fet any Salts in the Sun or near a Fire, during my ftay there P 
to preferve them, or to reftore them to their coagulated forme. 
Nor will other Sea-Salts there loofe much, if not kept dry by a 
Fire; no, nor lying on the ground. For, I have Teen it kepcfo^ 
yet if it immediately touch the ground, fome of it will moiftem 
a vay. But I have feen Tortoifes dry-falted, and lie on the ground. 
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