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full of Snow or Ice (taking care that the Tee be made of the 
pureft water 9 becaufe they pot it into their wine ) over- 
fpreading firft the bottom very well with chafe ? by which 
I mean not any part of the draw, but what remains upon 
the winnowing of the Corn? and I think, they here ufe Bar- 
ley-chaffe* This done , they further, as they pot in the 
Ice , or the Snow , ( which latter they ram down , ) line it 
thick by thefides with Fuch ChafFe , and afterwards cover 
it well with the fame? and in Haifa years lying fo, us found 
not to want above an eight part of what it weighed, when 
firft put in. When ever they take it out into the Aire? they 
wrap it in this Ghaffe, and it keeps to admiration* The ufe 
ofit in England would not befo much for cooling of drinks, 
as »tis here generally ufed 5 but for cooling of fruit ,fweet- 
meats &c. So far this Author . 
The other ufual way both in Italy and other Countries s 
to coaferve Snow and Ice with Straw or Reed , is fet down 
fo punftually by Mr. Boyle in his Experimental Hiftory of Cold, 
pag. 4oS« 409. that nothing is to be added. It feeras Pliny 
could not pafs bythefe Confermtories , and the cooling of 
drinks with Ice, without palling this fevere,though elegant 
and witty, Animadverfion upon them: Hi Nines, ills gUciem 
pot ant, pcendfque montium in voluftatem gul<e vertunt : Serva~ 
tur algor &Jtibus , excogitaturque ut alienis mcnftbm nix al- 
geaP-, lib. 19. cap* 4. But the Epigramwatift fports with it 
thm l 
Non pot are mvem,fed squaw pot m ngentem 
m nine, comment a eft ingettiofa Martial, 14^.117. 
Directions for Sea*men y bound for far Voyages . 
It being the Defign of the JR. Society , for the better at- 
taining the End of their f nftitution $ to ftudy Nature rather 
than Books e and from the Observations, made of the pjjfc 
momma and Effcfts (he ptcfeati s to compofe fuch a Hifto- 
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