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the bituminous fubftances from the water, making very 
confiderable advantages of them, for Mechanical, and 
Medicinal ufes ; I have leen them gather it up with 
Ladles, and put it into large filtresj or into great Fun- 
nels ftopt at the bottom, or elfe into Barrels let on 
one end, which have Spiggots near their bottoms, when 
they are full and have ftood a while, they open the 
fpiggot orftoppell to let out the water, and when the 
oyl or bituminous fnbftance begins to come, they pre- 
lently flop it again; the laiftof whichMr. "R^y did like- 
wife obferve at Gabian in. Languedoc* Obferv, Topograph. 
p. 4(^2. Whether they make ufe of any ofthefe ways ia 
^nt, I am yet to learn, though both the learned Sr. 
George Wheeler and Monjieur Spon^ in their excellent 
Voyages have delcribed the Pitch-fprings of that If- 
land. 
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