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paratively to thofe which have been named above. 
Here the ^y^?//^ is boiled in fmallL^^<^^« Pans^ and there 
is not the leaft grain of Sand at any time, which either 
falls before the Gr«2W;z^ of th^Salt, or that adheres to 
the Fans bottoms; ^ notwithftanding what hath been 
faid to the contrary : and therefore this Brine being na- 
turally without ^^w^^, itmuftyeild the more wholefome 
Salt. 
The Lower Pit at the nether l^^V^ in the fame Town, 
hath but one Proprietor, as I remember, and therefore 
is lefs drawn, but yet is conftantly and well wrought. 
Here aifo is no news or knowledge of ^ivf Sand at all. 
The water of the(e Pits ftinks like gotten Eggs, efpecially 
after Sundays reft: And ( N.BJ will, if iiefli be pickled 
in them, make it ftink in 12 Hours. 
And yet the Saltt\\2it is boiled out of thefe Pits is ac- 
counted the very beft inland Salt of England, and I beleive 
as good as any in the world. 
I doubt not but they are Jtramentous yhwt I forgot to try 
them with Galls, 
I obferved in a Ditch over agai nftthen ether Wich-^ 
houies, the water ftanding with a White Scum as at the 
Sulphur Spaws in TorkzJhire, 
1 fliall add by way of CoroUarie, 
I. That all our Tor^hire Welh called Sulphur Spaws 
{ which are many ) are no other then fo many Brine Pits^ 
and if they were well drawn and wrought would be as lit* 
tie ofFenfive in imell. 
2 That this Stone-powder is alfo to be found adhering to 
the Iron-pans, where the Sea-water is boiled into Salt, as 
it is at Shields in theBifhoprick of Durham; But I do not 
remember it to be in the lead pans at Med p and Milthrop 
in LancaJhirewhQTQ the Sea Sands arc lixiviated, and that 
Lixivium boiled into Salt \ nor is it remenibred in the ac» 
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