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rident from the very nature of liquid bodies/ for the 
parts of all liquid bodies being in a conftant motion, and 
mixing with one another, any Vertue received in one 
part,muft neceffarily be diffus'd through the whole^at leaft 
in fome degree, but the ftakes in this experiment had not 
luffered the leaft alteration laft Summer, though they 
had been almoft three times leven years in the water. 
2. Whether thh ^ualitie he equally diffuid throughout 
the whole Lough, or be more ftrong in any particular parts 
^^^r^^?//* Becaufe there have been no certain experi- 
ments made upon all parts of the Loug^hy and much time 
required to make this tryall we cannot expert a fpeedy 
relolution of this Qu^ry; Report for the Weft fide, 
and Dr. Boat (^an Author for whofe fidelity 1 vouch not) 
in h\s N^tufdlHtJtory o^IrelandyiiQ\h \xsi\i^t as his Bro- 
ther informed him^ who lived in thofe parts, that water- 
has efpecially this Virtu about thofe places, where the 
Black^sv^ttr difcharges it felf intd the Lake, but con- 
fefles he never could find any perfon who himlelfehad 
made the tryall, and therefore had this information 
from report, or fome other way equally uncertain ; lo 
that theTe is ftill good reafon to believe the water is 
wholy deftitute of this petrifying qualitie. 
What -woods ^re petrified by the Lough? or whether 
only Holly. That not only Holly, but alfo Oa\^^ and 
fome other wood has been petrified about this Lough^ 
and in the foil adjacent, I havefofficient grounds to 
conje<Stur^ on this account ; becauie fome Fifiiermen, 
being tenants of a gentleman from whom I had this re- 
lation, told him, they had found buried in the mud of 
this Lough great trees, with all their roots and branches 
petrified ; and fome of that bignefs, that they believ'd 
ihey could fcarcely be drawn by a teem of Oxen, They 
broke off feverall branches as big as a mans legg, and 
many bigger, but could not move the great trunk. If 
we may credit this relation, we muft allow fome other 
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