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thefweatof the Bodies of Animals^ it being iniich ufed in cw/i- 
cular Difeafes ; but this 1 think neither can well be, becaufe 'tis 
a conftantly running j^ri^^, and would fure carry off what might 
be left of that nature : I therefore wholly leave it to the Readers 
greater perfpicaclty, and (liall content my felf with this fatisfa- 
ftion, that however improbable the thing may feem, that in the 
mean time 'tis an improbable truth. 
42. 1 have often fince widi'd, that I had tryed this jr^/er with 
afolutionof Alum, and feen whether it would have given any 
thing of that milky precipitation it do's with Vrines'^ which be- 
ing then quite out of my head, is left to the tryalof fome inge- 
nious perfon that lives thereabout ; though before-hand T muft 
tell him, that I believe it will not fucceed becaufe the urinous fub^ 
ftance feems not to be copious enough. 
43 . Divers might be the ufes of thefe vpaters^ and particularly 
of the two firft, as good, or perhaps better than that at Clifton^ 
for cuticular Difeafes of Men and Beafts fome whereof I have 
known carryed out of thefe Inland Country^ to the Sea fide \ 
whereas 'tis likely they might (in all the Diftempcrs for which 
we have recourfe thither) with much more eafe have had a re- 
medy at home. 
44. But far more profitable muft they furely be, if imployed 
to improve poor and barren Lands, which no queftion might 
be done by calling them on it. In Chejhin ^, near the Salt-fiti 
of Nantmch^ 'tis yearly practiced thus to hrine their Fields ; 
which though never done^ but after the fall of great ftore of 
Rain-waters into their fits^ w^hich before they can work again 
muft be gotten out , and with it fome quantity of their 
hrine too , yet even with thefe but brackifh waters do they 
fo fcafon their adjoyning Lands, that they receive a much more 
profitable return, then they could have done from any foil or 
dung. 
45. In Cornwall zn&Devonfiire-) fo confiderable are their im- 
provements by fea-fand^ that it is carryed to all parts as far as 
they have the advantage of the water, and afterwards 10 or 12 
miles up higher into the Country on horfes backs : At which i 
muftconfefsl marvel not at all, fince we are informed by an in- 
telligent Gentleman of thofe parts % that where-ever this fand is 
y Sir HughVht's Jewel-houfe of Art andNature, ca^. J04. I FhUofo^h, TranfaB-Ntm. 113. 
ufed, 
