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and of different Magnitudes) did yet agree iu a like /' 
gure^ as is defcribed. 
This £A;/m;W(?w^ I repeated with the like fuccefs; and 
do not doubt, but that itwillfucceed with any Sea Wa* 
ter^ which fhall be brought from any other part of the 
world, which x\\\^Society fhall pleafe to diredl to be done. 
Further, I fay that probably the Sea-water was the on- 
ly £/^;w^;2^ of Water created a t the beginning. And the 
congregation of the waters was called ^'i? /35. Genes, i. that 
is, before any Animal or Vegetable was created, or the Suti 
it felf. But upon the Creation of thefe t\\QfreJb nater had 
its rife accidentally , becaufe it owes its being in great part 
aslhaveelfewherefliewn) to the Vapours of Plants 
and the Breath of Animals and the Exhalations raifed by 
the Sun. and by this means the levers may be furniflied 
from the Sea by the Breath of its own Plants and Animals, 
fo as to make what the wife man fays very intelligible. Ec- 
cles: I. All theT^^V^rj- runinto the -5:^^, and the is not 
full ; into the place from whence the l{ivers come, thi- 
ther they return again j that is by way of Exhalation 
and Vapours. 
f . Now that the Sea water is made frejh by the Breath of 
Plants growing in it, I have elfewhere demonftrated thusg 
1 took a long G/^^/f -B^?^/^ and having filled it pretty fuU 
with Sea-water, taken up at Scarborough^ I put therein 
common weed [Alga Marina ) frefti and new gather- 
ed, fome with thQ^ats naked, and fome growing on and 
adhering to Stones : theGlafs Bodie being full, I put there- 
on a heady^\t\\ a BecJ^^^ and adapted a Receiver thereto, all 
without any Lute or clofing the joints; from thefe Plants 
did diftil dayly ^ tho' in a imall quantity^ a frefti, very 
fweet, and potable Water, which hath no Empegreuma^ 
or unpleafant taft, as all thofe difliiled by fire necefTari- 
ly have. 
f De Font, Med. Ar gl g DeF. M, Angl 
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