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i account of fome things in the Work if 
firft Book of which, our Author in the Chap- 
,i. takes notice, that Cold Baths were in ufe 
amv. ■ the Ancients in the Cure of many Difeafes 3 and 
tbit they are commended by divers Learned Phylidans, 
and especially by Sir John Floyer, Kt, and Dr Bajnard 5 
th^ firft of which, in his Excellent 'Vvxv * hath e- 
numerated the leveral forts of Cold- Baths, and the many 
Cures perform’d by them. Be likewife takes notice of 
the diyers ways of making Salt from Sea-Watery firft by in- 
folation only, as Bay Salt, the Sea- Water being in hot 
Countries grained in Pans called Salt-MarJIxs $ 2dly, part- 
ly by the Sun, and partly by Fire, as P ort-Sea-Salt at 
Limmington in Hampjhire 5 gdly, by Boyling only, as New- 
eajlle and Scotch Salt. To the fe.. he adds the manner of 
making Salt from Sea-Sand in Lancajhire and other places y'- 
and likewife obferves, that both Speed and Camden, did 
take notice of the Evaporation of Sea Water into Salt, by 
the Sun, in the hollows of certain Stones in the Biffaoprick 
of Durham. 
In the Chapter of Mineral Waters, he takes notice of 
their feveral divifions and forts made by his Neighbour 
Mr Alien , in his Book of the Chalybeat and- Purging Wa- 
ters in England. And in the Chapter of Salts, befides 
many Curious Notes concerning the Cryftals of Salt , Sal- 
Gem, Niter , AUum , and Vitriol excerpted from th c Exercita- 
iiones de Fontibm Medicaiis Anglia, of his Learned Friend 
Dr Martin Lifter 5 he takes notice of a fort of Salt made 
at Malden in Ejjex, called Salt upon Salt, by the diffolving 
Rock Salt found in Cheshire, in Sea Water, 
In the Chapter of Stones, our Author obferves, that 
the Adarce of Dr Plot is nothing but an Incruftation, oc- 
casioned upon the mixing a Chalybeat Water near its 
fourfe with another from a gravelly foil, which by dilu- 
ting the firft, caufes .the precipitation, , . 
