' hrretJts, that muldMfe very gnat inconveniences, if it were not for the care 
ufed to -prevent thetTf. The Boats that /hall come from the Mediterranean^ 
Pjall enter at the Port St. Louys^whlch is at the Cape of Cette ; und th^fe 
that Jhall come from the Ocean/fhall pafsto Bourdeaux ; they Pjall afeend 
by meanj of Since s unto f/'^ Point of DWiCion^and defiend from thence after 
the like manner. The numher of the Slices ntll be great ^IjecaMfe of the great 
declivity^ there kfrom the faid Point towards both Seas, Jn the Mapf are 
noted thofeonly, that are made from Tholofe vntothe Peine c/ Separatio^n, 
?jrMy? we are bnfy in ma^kj^g^ <f'fo thofe on the other fide with the fame exaH;^ 
mfs, 
7. The markj)f the Slices. 
Some G^nfiderations 
Relating H D. Witties Defence of Scarborough Spaw^ 
viated in Numb, 5 x. ) together mth a brief Accompt of a lefs 
corjfiderahleSd,\t'fynngmS6merfetfh; and of a Medical Sf ring 
Dorfetfhirc 5 hy the Learned Dr. Highmore/;; 4 Letter te 
Dr Beale at YtaviUn Somerfctfli. 
Worthy Sir a 
I Give you many thanks for the laft Letters, and the loane 
of your Book. The Dr. indeed hath gotten ground 
ofhisAdverfary-, but whether either of them hath gotten the 
right on his fide, I eannot Judge^ being a ftrangcr to that Wa- 
ter^much differing f it feems) from thefe about Us-, and there- 
fore may participate of other Minerals^and more^bothin quanti- 
ty and number. But^whether all thofe diftinft Minerals^reck- 
on'd up by the Dr, do confpire t ^ makeup this Medici lal wa- 
ter, and that none of them can be left ou^may be doubted: 
Audit feemSjhedothhimfelf fpeak very doubtfully as to Salt; 
acknowledging it to be the leaft of all the other , if there be a- 
ny differing from the Salt of the Metals 5 though it befometimes 
covered by the Sea,as he faith pag, Sp. 
Next, I wonder, why he fliould fet Jllom in the front of the 
Conftituents of his Medicinal v^ziaiAlumen exiccat.aflringit^ 'm" 
craffat. Now how the Water fliould be fo highly deopilative, 
and fo beneficial to Hypochondriacal and Cachefitical perfons , 
being impregnated with fo great an Aftringent, I underitand not, 
neither doth the Dr. declare : Befides^he confefleth^Allum- wa- 
ter will not tinge with Galls as he acknowledges this will 
do. Fur- 
