(50) 
amongftusi Wefindfome White Salt very faint 5 and the 
price imports a difference between Sfmijh^ French and Por- 
tugal Salt. . ' 
5. The Illuftrious Pal/adm^v^ho wrote about the Year 350, 
and had his ample Manors or Territories in halj/^ Naples and 
Sardwia , and thereby had great experience in Sheepykms to 
give furerfiles, Hereto freferve the Flocks Jomd ; JMovewLtit. 
1 3.6>(^.2. Amongfl: his Advifo's he faith ; Salts tamen crebra 
(onfferjto^ 'vel fafcuis mijla^'velcanalibus frequenter oblata, des 
bet fecoris levare yij(?/W/^f». All thefe three, PaUadius^dXidVar' 
roj -and Columella^ do give infallible inftrnfiions for thepre- 
fervation of our Flocks ; but the Rules cannot be obferved 
by thofe that have the greateft Flocks; To change Fajlures of- 
ten ; to be fufpied m rainy feafons with dry fodder \ to lick [at- 
ted troughs y to have feme turns in Salt- marjhes : The words of 
Palladius L cit.zrt ; Fafcua ovtllogenert uttlia (unt^ qua, vel in 
novaltbus ^ vel in fratis jiccioribm excitant ur-^ falujiriaverj 
noxia Junt, A^id Gabr.Prat, from his own and his anceftors ex- 
perience of 80 years, bids us take heed of the pregnane ver- 
dure, when much rainfalls in the vernal months of ^pril and 
May : And all Sheep-mafters are afraid of rainy Autumns.Buc 
whence fliall the relief be had The charge will be heavy, if 
the fame fodder be provided for every year, and the deftroy- 
ingyears do furprize us. I hear, that about Salisbury Tomt 
do plough up a few^cres, and fow a kind o£ pulfe,which they 
there call tilth. And now we have in England fo many kinds 
of Frenfh feeds, and French grafs, that one kind or other is 
like to profper in moil: places ; and fodder well ordered in 
{lacks will hold out for many years ; perhaps for Sheep the 
older the better. And hereabout they hold fuch friendly cor- 
refpondence, that in Autumn I fee the Shepheards drive the 
flocks out oi^SomerfetJhire into Dorfetfhire^ and thofe of Dcr- 
fetjbire \x\to Somerfetjhire^ for the benefit on bothiidesby 
change of Soil. Note^ that cxwd^ Antimony cures Sheep and o* 
therCattel,and fateetis them alfo.I omit many particulars com- 
monly known,and obferv'd by careful Shepheards,as in fliow^ 
ers and foon after a fliower,to drive the flocks gently,that they 
may beat off the dew with their feet, before they befuffered 
to feed on the wet grafs ; efpecially in cold mornings, when 
