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fVine-Caunton,- not many years ago, they Digged for Colt, where the CoI emcn were endangered by a Fcetid Damp ; And when they aflayed the Cole inthe Fire it proved very Noysom, so that they forsook thole Cole-mines Per-haps it may be serviceable to them that know not how to tnake an honest vleos Arfenic and other Poyfons.

Here again, wich some Timorousreß, I propose the Inquiry, whether Sub-terraneous Stearns might not give the Dark Yellow Tintfure to the llamdenQuarre , and the propertv to this Water of Rußy well for the Fulvous Colora -tion : It cannot be expected, that Materials, differing so much as Stones leernto differ from Water, when perfectly Petrifyed, stiould retain the very someGolour, though both received it from the very fame Stearns. The fame I pro-pole for the Blackneß and Foecidneß of the Spring in Weß-Camel , and of theCole near IVtne-Caunton, that both may receive the some TmSlure, and Odöurfrom Subterranean Steames, which may perhaps be of so many kinds, andmixtures, as to cause much of the great diversiries of Metals , Minerals ,Earths, and Sofies ; and of some minute Differences in the Colour , laß, 0-dour, and Dre/s of Vegetables • Yea and of the Furres , Haires , fVool, and otherlittle varieties in Animals (particularly in Sheep) in several places; more im-mediately in Vegetables , and of Animals by Remoter circumstances; I will notexcept the Ethiopick-Huc , and Humours of Men in Diftant Climates, thoughVegetables and Animals do (for the most pari) retain their Seminal Properties inDißant Climates for many. Generations. And perhaps from these Terrefir'talSteames the Vegetables do imperceptibly draw some of their Saks, and much oftheir Nutriment.

For theso Overtures I will at present instance n» more than thus. The II-lustrious Mr .Boyle hath, methinks, evinced, that the most Solid Bodtes weknow, have their Atmofpheres of Stearns and Exbalations: And whatever theMaterials be, which are under our Terrene Crufi towards the Center, whetherFluid, Flammg, or groß Substances, they must needs hold an Intercourse ofTranjpirations, and mutually operate by their perpetual Agitations, and Whir-lingsabout: And by the Vulcano’ s, frequent in Japan, and in several otherplaces, and by the Heats in Deepest Mtnes , and by many other manifest Ar-guments, it appears, that there are always strong Stearns Ascending towards theSurface of th eEartb: And, it their Generative Power, and other Efficacies wereduly examined, and prosecuted to the best purposes, we might perhaps in timefind them to have a greatcr V irtue, and more useful for us, than many of theConßellatiom and Celestial Inßuences , which make no fmall Noise amongst A-Jlrologers.

X L 111. Viliring the Famous Boyling Foimtain at Piroul, not fär fromMontpelur, I found the Water to Heave t and Boyle up very furioufly in (mallBubbks\ which manifestly proceeded from a Vapour breaking out of the Earth ;for upon Digging any where near the Ditch, and pouring other Water uponthe Dry place newly Dugg, I observed in it immediately the some Boyling , asthe Exquisite Naturalist Mr. Ray has related in bis Travels. The like Bttbblingof Water 15 also found round about Peroul, upon the Sea (höre; and in the E-

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