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edges blew or greenllk Being applyed to the.' Wound, it 
adheres to it of it felf, and fails not off, but after it hath 
fucked th.ePoy.fon- : Then they wafh it in Milk, wherein *tis 
left awhile, till it return to its natural condition. It is a 
rare Stone, for if it be put the fecond time upon the Wound, 
and ftick to it, *tis a 1 ffgn it had not fuck’d all the Venorne 
during its firft application , but if it ftick not, kis a mark 
that all the Poyfon was drawn out at firft. Sofar our French 
Author: wherein appears no confiderable difference from 
' the writteii Rdatipir before mentioned. 
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Of the iv ay, njed in the MogolV Dominions , t@ 
make Saltpetre, , 
This is’ delivered in the fame Book of Monffeur Tkevenot, 
and the manner of it having been inquired after, by feve- 
ral curious Perfons, to compare it with that which is uftd in 
Europe^ ’tis prefum’d, they will not bedifpleafed to finde it 
inferred here in Exglijh , which is as followeth .* 
Saltpetre is found in many places of the Eafl Indie*, but 
chiefly about A<zra, and in the Villages, that heretofore have 
been numeroufly inhabited, but are nbw defer ted. They 
draw it out of three forts of Earth, black, yellow, and 
white : the beft, is that which is drawn out of the black, for 
it is free from common Salt, They work it in this manner : 
They make two Pits, flat at the bottom, Iikethofe where- 
in common Salt is made 5 one of them having much more 
compafs then the other, they fill that with Earth,upon which 
they let run Water,, and by the feet of People they tread it, 
andreduceittotheconfiftencyof a Pap, and fo they let ife 
ftandfor two days, that the Water may extrad all the Salt 
that is in the Earth : Then they pafs this Water into another 
Pit, in which itdchriftallizes into Saltpetre. They let it boil 
onceortwicte in a Caldron, according as tffey will have it 
whiter and purer,- Whilft it is over the Fire, they feu m it 
continually, and fill it out into great Earthen Pots, which 
P hold 
