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gers, Porcupins, Civet-cats, which latter the more they are fed with 
• pulfe of me^l and honey, the more Civet they yield. 
Difcourfingof their S^^/f, he takes notice, thac they Jet in Sea« 
water, which having flood a while,is in great Earthen veflTels pur o- 
ver a great fire, and boyled to Salt, which they let dry in the Sun , 
of en itirring ic ; whereupon 'tis found both fo ftrong and white, 
that 'tis inferior to no European Salt whether in taft or whltenefs. 
Speaking of the Commodities,bought of the Europeans by tbofe 
of F^'^/^ and their Neighbours of AcmUy he obferves, that tfiey are 
by Slaves carried tS^ JJJingrud in Jcmu^ and from thence through 
Alance to Accnbel^ which he faith is another and a potent and opu- 
^ leniCoiiQtry, twelve dayes Journey behind ^^•^;?/^, and that very 
Couatryj.wherein are thofe rich Ga/i»//;^^, out of which comts 
tbemoftaod beft Gold, for which the European Cotnniodicies axe 
broughr, c^c. 
If. the firft Book of the ART of MbTTJLS, V0ritten in Spanifii 
by Alonfo Barba^ &q, and Englifbt hy the R, H. Edward Earl 
^/Sandwich. London, 1 674. in So» 
1'His Piece being originally written by one, thac had lived a 
confiderable time mFeruzt Fotoji^ and having been thought 
v/oTihy to be Engliflic by fo noble and intelligent a perfon, as the 
httEsLYloi Sandrvich^ we cannot but take notice and give fon e 
accountof it to the Curious in this argument; pafling by thofe 
particulars that are obvious and common , about the afTociating 
fubftances of Mettals, ffuch as Scones, Earths, Juyces,)3nd their va- 
rious qualifications, and confining our felves to thofe chat are lefs 
fo, viz,, 
1. that the Provinces of the Wejl-hdiesdo as much abound in 
Snlt^ as they do in Mettals ; that a piece of the Sea between the 
Lipesd'id coagulated intoaCryftallin id\t;that the Sait-pits,caird 
Garci ^SMendoza^ are forty leagues long, and (where narroweft) fix- 
teen broad 5 that in the Lifes^ four leagues from the Mines of S". 
Chri/lopher de yfchocolla^ in the middle of a Lake, on the top of a 
Hill, the water boy ling up, there is one fmall gutter, where it run- 
ning over, the water iflfued forth becomes red Salt, as it runs along 
in little channels, and proves a njighty ftrong Salt,having double ihc 
vertue of common Salt in the workingof Metals* Which Salt be- 
ing an excellent remedy for the Dyfentery, 'tis thought to have a 
mixture of a kind of red Allum, found alfo in thofe parts. 
2. That that Sulphureous liquor Naphtha and Petreolmn will 
take fire at a great diftance from the flame 5 here confinif d by a fad 
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