40 ' A Philosophical Discourse

and, provided that you supply the Magazine, a continu’d and siuthefIncreale. Indeed this Salt and Compos is not immediately fit for Uk,till it he well dulcify’d and purg’d from its over Acrimony, thereforemix it well with your Mould, and dilute it as you lee Cause. Th eReceipt is set down by old Glauber for the effecting of wonderful V e 'get at ion, by the Assistance of certain Circulatory Vessels to preparethe Oily Succus, and pinguid Juice, which that Author teaches in l llSMiraculum Mundi, to extract not only out of these Materials, butout of Turf Wood and Stone it self, by calcining and burning them )flclose and reverberating Furnaces, to which a Tube, adapted near thebottom, may convey the Spirits into a Recipient , as he describes theProcess. I mention this the rather, for the real Effects which I h avebeen told of this Mensruum from very good Testimony: And doubt'less he who were skill’d to extract it in Quantity ( and to dulcify ancqualify it for Use ) a true spirit Otis Nitre may do abundantly m° rC >in the way of the Improvements we have celebrated, with a small Qp aI1 'tity, than with whole Loads, nay Hundreds of Loads of the best astrichest of dry Composts, which he can devise to make. But befufthis, any House of Ordure , or rancid Mold, strong Salts , vinous Uquors, ‘Urine, AJhes, Dust, Shavelings of the Kennels and Streets,&c. kept dry and cover’d for three or four Years, will be conV ert< -^into Tetre without half this Trouble; especially if you mingst. ^with the Dung of Tigeons, Toultry, and other salacious Fowl sssfeed on Corn : Or those who would not be at the Charge offor these Advantages, may make Experiment of the lo famous•water, not long since cry’d up for the doing Wonders in the F> c 'Throw off the shortest and best Marl into your Cistern , cxcecdmgcomminute and broken, which you may do with an Iron Rake, „Instrument, till the Liquor become very thick; cast on this theof Fowl, Conies, Sheep, 8tc. frequently stirring it; to this addSoil of Horses and Cows, Grains, Lees of Wine, Ale, ■

fort of Beverage, Broths, Brine, fatty and greasy Stuff of the tw .en; then cast in a Quantity of Lime, or melting Chalk, ofthere is a fort very unctuous; also Blood, Drine, &c. mh' ed ' •

the Water, and with this sprinkle your Ground at seasonable tit^and when you have almost exhausted the Cistern of the Liqgle the Residue with the grosser Compost of your Stable andand with Layers of Earth, Sand, Lime, 8. S. S. frequentlywith uncrude Water; the taking up of which you may much j fl gby sinking a Tub or Vessel near the corner of the Ciftern , and P ie 0 uit with large Holes at the Bottom and Sides, by whichmay take it out lo clean, as to make Use of it through a great Jor watering Engine, Inch as being us’d to extinguish Fire, wn ^and let it fall by Showers on the Ground, and is much the moreral way of Irrigation, and dispatches the Work.

This Liquor has the Reputation also for lnfuccation of it,

other Grain, to which some add a sine sifting of Lime duff .^ S ;and when that is dry, to repeat it with new Infusions andBut, . . . sip'

There is yet a shorter Traces, namely, the watering wit ^ yesmongers-'wash, impregnated with the Sweepings of Snips oU ie,

^ sets trading for Salt, adding to it the Blood of the Slaughte

. with Lime, as above ; but this is also much too fierce for