Monfieur Hauton maintains , that his diftiird Sea-water 
fwhcreof 1 formerly wrote to you the procefle)is altogether 
falubrious. Heproveth it firft (vom Experience , it having 
been given to Men and Beafts without any ill cfflcft at all up- 
on them. Secondly^ from Reafon, grounded on this^ that that 
peculiar Earthy heretofore made mention of, being mixed 
with the diftillcd Water, blunts the points of the Volatil Spi- 
rits of the Salt, and ferveth them for (heaths, if 1 may fo 
fpeak, taking away their force and maligne fliarpneft^ &c» 
. St» Germain^ Oftoher 30. 1670. 
A Rdation 
Of the abundance of IVood y found under ground in Lincaln- 
(hire communicated by a Friend ^ well acquainted mth 
that Country. 
THat Fenny Trafl-jcall'd the Jfle of Axholme-^Xymg part in 
Lincoln-JInre and part in Tor^-J/jrre^znd extending a con- 
fiderable way^ hath anciently been a Woody Country, witnels 
the abundance of Oak, Firr, and other Trees, of late frc- 
q«ently found in the Af^^re^ whereof fome Oak are five yards 
incompafs.and fixteen yards long^ others fmaller and longer, 
with good Gfuantities of Akornsnear them, lying fomewhat 
above three foot in depth, and near their roots, which do ftiJl 
fcand as they grew, viz^ in firm Earth below the Moor. The 
Firrs lyea foot or eighteen Inches deeper, more in number 
than Oak, and many of them thirty yards longs one of 
them being, not many years fince, taken up of thirty fix yards 
longbefidesthetop^ lying alfo near the root, which flood 
likewife as it grew,having been burnt and not cut down,as the 
Oak had been alfo. The Number of thefe trees is reported by 
Mv^Dugdak , in his Book of Drayning the Fens in Engl arid 
(where you will find this whole narrative confirmed) ta be.fo 
great, that the Inhabitants have, for divers years laftpali, ta- 
ken up many Cart-loads in a year, t ; 
As rathe firft time of the overflowing of this Woody leveli, 
fio Account is given,tbat I knowof^not by the Inquifitive and 
Learapd Antiquary MnZ>^^tfi!U/ehimfelf^ He only faith ^ that 
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