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that eat the Mortar, which keep not above eight dayes alive, I have obferved 
all their parts with a very good Mlcnf tops, without which , and a great deal 
of attention,, 5 tis difficult to fee them well. 
I have feen other very old Walls al together-eaten, as thofe of the Temple- 
at Paris, where I could find no Worms, but the Cavities were full of Shells 
of various kinds, dlverfly figur’d and turn’d ; all which I believe to be little 
Animals petrified. 
Some promifcuous, Obfervations 3 made in Spmerfet-fihire , and 
imparted bp the above-mention d Dr. Beale. 
His words are thefe, in a Letter to the Ptthlifher ,. of the 24 .Zeptemh, 
1.666. at Teovlll in Somsrfetjbire •, 
I have two or three remarks , perhaps not unworthy to be recorded for 
further application in like cafes of time and place. 
1. In the Moores from hence towards Bridgewater , in the extreme 
drought, we have endured this Summer, forne lengths of pafture gre'w much 
foonerwithered and parched, than the other pafture. And this parched part 
feem’d to bear the length and fhape (in groffe) of Trees. They digg’d, and 
found, In the place, Oakes indeed, as black as Ebony. And hence they 
have been inftru&ed to find and take up many hundreds of Oakes , as a 
neighbour of good credit allures me. This adver tifemen t may be inftrudlive 
for other parts, as Kent , Ejfex, Lincoln, Uc. 
2. My Cofen Philips of t \Montagne h s in his paftures of Socks , about 
three miles off, a large Pool, to which Pigeons refort ; but the Cattle will 
not drink -of it, no not in the extreamwant of water in this drought. To the 
tafte it is not only brackiih, but hath other loathfome tails. In a Venice- 
glafs it looked greenifh and clear, juft like the mod greenifh Cider as foon as 
itisperfedily clarifyed. I boyl’d a^Pint of it in a Pofnet of Bell-Mettali 
(commonly ufed to preferve Sweatmeats :) fuddenly it yeifded a thick froth 1 , 
whence I fcumm’d half a fcore Spoonfulls ; of which the indofed is a part. 
*Suffring the water to be boyl’d allawayy it 
left much of the fame on the Tides and bot- * ThU'had fomewhat of a Attribute 
tom Of the Pofnet. tafie. But the Experiment being made 
„ t . . v ’J „ whb treater quantities of this water, 
3. From Lamport, towards .Bridge-water, whk f^ efi will be done, the 
Eeles are.fo cheap in the frofts of Winter, nature and\ind of it maybe better 
that they vend them for little. Their abun^ \nown. 
dance is from hence, that as the people 
walk, in the frofty Mornings, on the banks of the river , they difcern, to- 
wardsthe edges of the banks, fome parts not hoare , as the reft, but greets • r 
where fearching the holes of the banks, they find heaps of Edes, 
