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kto the Fire. Whence I inferr’d, that the Fire fomewhat lef- 
fend its Attra&ive faculty, but did not deprive the Stone of 
Cyder-feafon approaching, I know not how to conceal 
from the delicate and curious Cyder-drinker (though I my 
felf find the pleafures of all liquors in one, even 
that of fountain water*) the notice of a liquor 
as commendable, as yet ra re. It is a compoliti- ^ rink ^ spring- 
on of the Juyces of good Cyder*apples and water# 
Mulberries, producing the beft tafted and tnoft 
curioufly coloured liquor, that many ever faw, or tafted. Of 
which the experiment may be eafily made by thofe that are 
furnifht with Mulberry-trees, without any confiderable coft. 
An Account of fome Boo\f. 
I. 7k HIS70R 7 of the ROTAL SOCIE- 
TT (f LONDON, for the Advancement of 
EXPER IMEN7A LPhilofyhy,by 7H 0, 
SPRAT. 
] T was indeed highly futable, that the Hiftory of the Royal 
Experimenting Society fhould be dedicated, as the Candid 
Author of it hath done, to that iQrag, who is the firft of all the 
Kings of Europe 9 that confirmed this Noble Defignof Expe* 
rments, both by His own Example, and by a publick Eftablifl>- 
ment. 
The Difcourfe it felf, which is modeft and elegant, is divi- 
ded by the Author into thefe three general Heads : 
The Firft gives a ihort view of the Ancient and Modern Phi- 
lofophy j and of the moft Famous Attempts, that have been 
made for its Advancement , by the Chaldeans ftFpyptidns , Grecians , 
Arabians, Jtymans 3 of old 5 and then, by feverai Neiv naies of 
Fhilofephy 
