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that it licks, which I take to be as certain as that 'tis not fo by 
torrefa^ion ; then if it be poffible we may have fuch Earths, as 
give the Sea thofe falino-fulphureou^ tinftures, it's altogether as' 
poffible we may have fuch waters too, without any neceffity of 
fuch communication. 
38. If it be objefted. That the waters oi" the Sea fend forth 
no fuch ftench as we find thefe do, let it be confidered that the 
flux of the one, and flagnation of the other, may well occafion 
fuch a difference ; whil'ft the Sea-waters are in their motion, 'tis 
true their ' falts and fulphurs fo involve one another, that their 
mutual imbraces hinder zWevaporations ; but whenever they come 
to (land but awhile, as they do moft times in the holds of Ships, 
then thtw fulphurs evaporate with as great a ftink, as can be fup- 
pofed ours have here at Land ; and this the Ships pump doth fre- 
quently witnefs, to the great content of all that travel by ^e^, it 
being a fure indication of the Ships health, which abundantly 
recompenccs the inconvenience of the ftench. *sc >m i 
39. Such another I have heard of in the Parifli of Chadling- 
ton^ in the grounds of one Rawlifon there, not differing in any 
thing at all from the former, but only it's fomwhat ftronger of 
the marine fait : this I muft confefs I faw not my felf, yet having 
my information from fo knowing a Perfon, and of fo unqueftion- 
able fidelity as Sir Thonm Pennyflon^ I doubt not at all the truth of 
the thing. 
48. A fait firing there is alfo at Clifton near Deddington^ with- 
in a Quoits caft of the River fide : but its faline particles are fo 
fubtilized in \i\ewater^ that they fcarcely can at all be perceived 
by the palate, and yet it lays them down plentifully enough on 
the ftones and Earth over which it paffes. What fort of fait thjs 
is, I care not to determine, becaufe it will be difficult not to 
miftake ; for upon evaporation of about a gallon, it yielded a 
fait of a urinous taft : which at firft I muft confefs was fo furpri- 
zingtome, that I could not but think, that during my abfence, 
fome waggifti fellow had either put a trick on me, orelfethat I 
might have ufed fome unfit veffel ; whereupon I caufed a new 
earthen pot to be bought, well glafed, and tjicn repeated the Ex- 
periment very carefully, but found in the end all had been honeft 
about mc, for I had a 72r// again of the very fame taft. 
41. How this ftiouldcomc about I cannot divine, unlefs from 
the 
