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rcoverd with fak a year, and the fait under all viciflitudes of 
weather never give much, or fpoil the faked Tortoife. 
2. The way of drinking Brand] with Water., as Sir Chriflofher 
Mings obferv'd, was this. Firft to take a mouth-full of Brandy , 
and whiFft it was yet hot in your mouth and unfwaliow'd, to 
drink the Water and fo wafli it down ^ it being his and a com- 
mon obfervation at Sea, that it was ever wholefome to drink it * 
fo, then either mixt with the Water, or after it. For, [aid be^ if 
you drink the Water firft, it gives inftantly fuch animpreflionof 
coldnefs to your Stomadi and Lungs, as that it is too late to cor- 
rect it by the fucceeding Brandy. Which reafon I could not but 
allow of 5 for in thofe parts the paffages or porofities of the Bo- 
dy are fo pervious, that what you drink, though cold, inftantly 
difchargeth it felf in fweat, or checks your conftant and necel* 
vfary Diaphorefts, before you can get the fubfequent Brandy down. 
And in Man there is fo exa& a Machine^ that a much lefs thing 
.diforders him there then here. And if a little Brandy fhould be 
.mixt with a draught of water, it would not be effacacious^ the 
coldnefs of the water being more powerful in bodies fo tender 
(as we are there if hot) to hurt them, then fo little brandy to 
coifed it. But the o' her way wafhes the brandy down firft^ and 
as that goes, it fortifies nature every where to receive and diftri- 
bute the fubfequent cold liquor. 
3. About the Colour of the Sea^l have this to add, That as 
we went, and pafTed from a Green Sea to an Azure, in the way 
when it was dark colour'd ( which we formerly have fpoken of, ) 
the top of each wave, as it was caft up before the Sun, fliew'd 
it felf to be A&ure^ the reft of the wave beinp dark-coloufd P 
approaching to black And the like I obferv'd coming home 5 
for, though the Sea in its dark-colom refembled exa&ly what we 
faw before, as we went out 5 yet did the tops of the wave break 
and appear to be green, long before the great Waves or body of 
the Sea became green. I obferv'd , that the Sea, which was 
Azure^mA tranfparent in Sun-fhiny dayes, was black and dark- 
colour 'd, and much lefs tranfparent , when the Sun did not 
ihine. But in the Green Sea there happens not the like Diffe- 
rence. 
4. As to thofe Plants, whofe roots I faid were ftony ; it may be 
noted 
