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as Health ^Wherein the Experiments aboue mentioned may ferue. 
But for the Choice of Places, or Seats* it is good to make Trial!, not 
onely of Aptnejfe of Aire to corrupt, butalfoot the Moi(lure and Dnnejfe 
of the Aire • and the T<mper of it, in Heat, or Gold • For that may con- 
cerne Health diuerfly. We fee that there be fome Houfes, wherein Smet 
Meats will relent, and Baked Meats will mould,more than in others* And 
wainfeot swill alfo fvveat more- fo that they will almoft run with water : 
All which, (no doubt,) are can fed chiefly by the Moifimjfe of the Aire, 
in thole Seats . But becaufe it is better to know it, before a Man buildeth 
his Houfe, than to finde it after, take the Experiments following. 
Lay ivooJl , or a Sponge, or Bread , in the Place you would try, com¬ 
paring it with fome other Places- 3 And fee whether it doth not moiflen, 
and make the wooll, or Sponge , &c. more Ponderous, than the other? 
And if it doe, you may iudge of that Place, as Situate in aG rdJJ'e, and 
Moijl Aires. 
Becaufcitiscertaine, that in fome Places, either by the Nature of the 
Earth, or by the Situation ofwoods , and Hills , the Aire is more Vnequall, 
than in Others - And Inequality of Aire is cuer an Enemy to Health 5 
1 It were good to take two weather-GlaJJes , Matches in all things, and to 
let them for the lame Houres of One day, in leuerall Places where no 
Shade is, nor Emlo fares : And to marke when yon let them, how farre 
the water commtth ; And to compare them, when yon come againe, 
how the water ftandeth then: and if yon finde them Vnequalt , yon may 
be fure that the Place where the water is loweft, is in the warmer Aire 3 
and the other in the Colder. And the greater the Inequality bee, of the 
Afcent, or De/cent of the water , the greater is the Inequality of the Tem¬ 
per of the Aire. 
The Predictions likewileof Cold and Long winters^ nd Hot and Dry 
Summers , are good to be knowrie • As well for the Difcouery of the Cau- 
fes , as for diners Prouifions. That of Plenty of Hams , and Heps , and 
Briar-Berries, hath beene fpoken of before. If Wainfcot, or Stone, that 
haue vfed to Sweat, be more dry, in the Beginning of Winter- Or the 
Drops of the Eaues of Houfes come more llowlydowne, than they vie • it 
portendeth a//W, and Frofty winter. The Cau/ei s. For that it fheweth 
an Inclination of the Mre, to Dry Weather • which in winter isener ioy- 
ned with Frofi. 
Generally, a Moifl and Coole Summer, portendeth a Hard winter. The 
Caufeis , for that th e Vapours of th z Earth, are not diilipated in the Sum¬ 
mer by the Sunne • And fo they rebound vpon the winter. 
A Hot and Dry Summer, and Autumne, and efpecially if the Heat and 
Drought extend farre into September, portendeth an Open Beginning of 
winter • And Colds to fucceed, toward the latter Part of th e Winter, and 
the Beginning of the Spring : For till then, the former Heat and Drought 
beare the Sway ; And the Vapours are not fufficientiy Multiplied. 
An Open and warme Winter portendeth a Hot and Dry summer: For 
the Vapours difperle into the Winter showers - s Whereas Cold and Frofi 
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