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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01552	Sylua syluarum: or A naturall historie In ten centuries. VVritten by the Right Honourable Francis Lo. Verulam Viscount St. Alban. Published after the authors death, by VVilliam Rawley Doctor of Diuinitie, late his Lordships chaplaine.	Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626.; Rawley, William, 1588?-1667.; Cecil, Thomas, fl. 1630, engraver.	1627 (1627)	STC 1168; ESTC S106909	303,154	346

you stay Neither shall you stay one day the lesse for that As for any Merchandize yee haue brought yee shall be well vsed and haue your returne either in Merchandize or in Gold and Siluer For to vs it is all one And if you haue any other Request to make hide it not For yee shall finde we will not make your Countenance to fall by the Answer ye shall receiue Onely this I must tell you that none of you must goe aboue a Karan that is with them a Mile and an halfe from the walles of the Citty without especiall leaue We answered after we had looked awhile one vpon another admiring this gracious and parent-like vsage That we could not tell what to say For wee wanted words to expresse our Thankes And his Noble free Offers lest vs nothing to aske It seemed to vs that we had before vs a picture of our Saluation in Heauen For wee that were a while since in the Iawes of Death were now brought into a place where we found nothing but Consolations For the Commandement laid vpon vs we would not faile to obey it though it was impossible but our Hearts should be enflamed to tread further vpon this Happy and Holy Ground Wee added That our Tongues should first cleaue to the Roofes of our Mouthes ere we should forget either his Reuerend Person or this whole Nation in our Prayers Wee also most humbly besought him to accept of vs as his true seruants by as iust a Right as euer Men on Earth were bounden laying and presenting both our persons and all we had at his feete He said He was a Priest and looked for a Priests reward which was our Brotherly loue and the Good of our Soules and Bodies So he went from vs not without teares of Tendernesse in his Eyes And left vs also confused with Ioy and Kindnesse saying amongst our selues That wee were come into a Land of Angells which did appeare to vs dayly and preuent vs with Comforts which we thought not of much lesse expected The next day about 10. of the Clocke the Gouernour came to vs againe and after Salutations said familiarly That he was come to visit vs And called for a Chaire and satt him downe And we being some 10. of vs the rest were of the meaner Sort or else gone abroad sate down with him And when we were sett he began thus Wee of this Island of Bensalem for so they call it in their Language haue this That by meanes of our solitary Situation and of the Lawes of Secrecy which we haue for our Trauellers and our rare Admission of Strangers we know well most part of the Habitable World and are our selues vnknowne Therefore because he that knoweth least is sittest to aske Questions it is more Reason for the Entertainement of the time that yee aske mee Questions then that I aske you We answered That wee humbly thanked him that he would giue vs leaue so to doe And that wee conceiued by the tast wee had already that ther was no wordly thing on Earth more worthy to be knowne then the State of that happy Land But aboue all We said since that wee were mett from the feuer all Ends of the World and boped assuredly that we should meete one day in the Kingdome of Heauen for that we were both parts Christians wee desired to know in respect that Land was so remote and so diuided by vast and vnknowne Seas from the Land wher our SAVIOVR walked on Earth who was the Apostle of that Nation and how it was conuerted to the Faith It appeared in his face that he tooke great Contentment in this our Question Hee said Yee knit my Heart to you by asking this Question in the first place For it sheweth that you First seeke the Kingdome of Heauen And I shall gladly and briefly satis fie your demaund About twenty Yeares after the Ascension of our SAVIOVR it came to passe that ther was seen by the People of Renfusa a Citty vpon the Easterne Coast of our Island within Night the Night was Cloudy and Calme as it might be some mile into the Sea a great Pillar of Light Not sharp but in forme of a Columne or Cylinder rising from the Sea a great way vp towards Heauen and on the topp of it was seene a large Crosse of Light more bright and resplendent then the Body of the Pillar Vpon which so strange a Spectacle the People of the Citty gathered apace together vpon the Sands to wonder And so after put themselues into a number of small Boates to goe nearer to this Marueilous sight But when the Boates were come within about 60. yeards of the Pillar they found themselues all bound and could goe no further yet so as they might moue to goe about but might not approach nearer So as the Boates stood all as in a Theater beholding this Light as an Heauenly Signe It so fell out that ther was in one of the Boates one of our Wise Men of the Society of Salomons House which House or Colledge my good Brethren is the very Eye of this Kingdome Who hauing a while attentiuely and deuoutly viewed and contemplated this Pillar and Crosse fell downe vpon his face And then raysed himselfe vpon his knees and listing vp his Hands to Heauen made his prayers in this manner LOrd God of Heauen and Earth thou hast vouchsafed of thy Grace to those of our Order to know thy Workes of Creation and the Secretts of them And to discerne as farre as appertaineth to the Generations of Men Between Diuine Miracles Workes of Nature Works of Art and Impostures and Illusions of all sorts I doe here acknowledge and testifie before this People that the Thing which we now see before our eyes is thy Finger and a true Miracle And for-as-much as we learne in our Bookes that thou neuer workest Miracles but to a Diuine and Excellent End for the Lawes of Nature are thine owne Lawes and thou exceedest them not but vpon great cause wee most humbly beseech thee to prosper this great Signe And to giue vs the Interpretation and vse of it in Mercy Which thou doest in some part secretly promise by sending it vnto vs. VVhen he had made his Prayer hee presently found the Boate he was in moueable and vnbound whereas all the rest remained still fast And taking that for an assurance of Leaue to approach he caused the Boate to be softly and with silence rowed towards the Pillar But ere he came neere it the Pillar and Crosse of Light brake vp and cast it selfe abroad as it were into a Firmament of many Starres which also vanished soone after and there was nothing lest to be seen but a small Arke or Chest of Cedar dry and not wett at all with water though it swam And in the Fore-end of it which was towards him grew a small greene Branch of Palme And when the wise Man had taken it with all reuerence into his Boate it opened of

the effect will follow For that Artificiall Conuersion of water into Ice is the worke of a few Houres And this of Aire may be tried by a Moneths space or the like Induration or Lapidification of Substances more Soft is likewise another degree of Condensation And is a great Alteration in Nature The Effecting and Accelerating thereof is very worthy to be inquired It is effected by three Meanes The first is by Cold vvhose Property is to Condense and constipate as hath beene said The Second is by Heat which is not proper but by consequence For the Heat doth attenuate And by Attenuation doth send forth the Spirit and moister Part of a Body And vpon that the more grosse of the Tangible Parts doe contract and serre themselues together Both to Auoid Vacuums as they call it And also to Munite themselues against the Force of the Fire which they haue suffered And the Third is by Assimilation when a Hard Body Assimilateth a Soft being contiguous to it The Examples of Induration taking them promiscuously are many As the Generation of Stones within the Earth which at the first are but Rude Earth or Clay And so of Mineralls which come no doubt at first of luyces Concrete which afterward indurate And so of Porcellane which is an Artificiall Cement buried in the Earth a long time And so the Making of Bricke and Tile Also the Making of Glasse of a certaine Sand and Brake-Roots and some other Matters Also the Exudations of Rock-Diamonds and Crystall which harden with time Also the Induration of Bead-Amber which at first is a soft Substance As appeareth by the Flies and Spiders which are found in it And many more But wee will speake of them distinctly For Indurations by Cold there bee few Trialls of it For wee haue no strong or intense Cold here on the Surface of the Earth so neare the Beames of the Sunne and the Heauens The likeliest Triall is by Snow and Ice For as Snow and Ice especially being holpen and their Cold actiuated by Nitre or Salt will turne Water into Ice and that in a few houres So it may be it will turne wood or Stiffe Clay into Stone in longer time Put therefore into a Conseruing Pit of Snow and Ice adding some quantity of Salt and Nitre a Peece of Wood or a Peece of Tough Clay and let it lye a Moneth or more Another Triall is by Metalline Waters which haue virtuall Cold in them Put therefore Wood or Clay into Smiths water or other Metalline water And try whether it will not harden in some reasonable time But I vnderstand it of Metalline waters that come by Washing or Quenching And not of Strong Waters that come by dissolution for they are too Corrosiue to consolidate It is already found that there are some Naturall Spring-waters that will Inlapidate Wood So as you shall see one peece of Wood whereof the Part aboue the Water shall continue Wood And the Part vnder the Water shall be turned into a kinde of Grauelly Stons It is likely those Waters are of some Metalline Mixture But there would be more particular Inquiry made of them It is certaine that an Egge was found hauing lien many yeeres in the bottome of a Moate where the Earth had somewhat ouergrowen it And this Egge was comen to the Hardnesse of a Stone And had the Colours of the white and Yolke perfect And the Shell shining in small graines like Sugar or Alablaster Another Experience there is of Induration by Cold which is already found which is that Metalls themselues are hardned by often Heating and Quenching in Cold Water For Cold euer worketh most potently vpon Heat Precedene For Induration by Heat it must be considered that Heat by the Exhaling of the Moister Parts doth either harden the Body As in Bricks Tiles Or if the Heat be more fierce maketh the grosser part it selfe Runne and Melt As in the making of ordinary Glosse And in the Vitrification of Earth As wee see in the Inner Parts of Farneces And in the Vitrification of Brick And of Mettals And in the former of these which is the Hardening by baking without Melting the Heat hath these degrees First it Indurateth and then maketh Fragile And lastly it doth Inciuerate and Calcinate But if you desire to make an Induration with Toughnesse and lesse Fragility A middle way would be taken Which is that which Artistotle hath well noted But would be throughly verified It is to decoct Bodies in water for two or three dayes But they must bee such Bodies into which the Water will not enter As Stone and Metall For if they be Bodies into which the Water will enter then long Seething will rather Soften than indurate them As hath beene tried in Eggs c. Therefore Softer Bodies must be put into Bottles And the Bottles hung into Water seething with the mouths open aboue the Water that no Water may get in For by this Meaues the virtuall Heat of the Water will enter And such a Heat as will not make the Body adust or fragile But the Substance of the Water will be shut out This Experiment wee made And it sorted thus It was tried with a Peece of Free-stone and with Pewter put into the Water at large The Free-stone we found receiued in some water For it was softer and easier to scrape then a peece of the same Stone kept drie But the Pewter into which no water could enter became more white and liker to Siluer and lesse flexible by much There were also put into an Earthen Bottle placed as before a good Pellet of Clay a Peece of Cheese a Peece of Chalke and a Peece of Free-stone The Clay came forth almost of the Hardnesse of Stone The Cheese likewise very hard and not well to be cut The Chalke and the Free-stone much harder than they were The colour of the Clay inclined not a whit to the Colour of Bricke but rather to white as in ordinary Drying by the Sunne Note that all the former Trialls were made by a Boyling vpon a good hot Fire renewing the water as it consumed with other hot water But the Boyling was but for twelue houres onely And it is like that the Experiment would haue beene more effectuall if the Boyling had beene for two or three daies as we prescribed before As touching Assimilation for there is a degree of Assimilation euen in Inanimate bodies wee see Examples of it in some Stones in Clay-Grounds lying neare to the top of the Earth where Pebble is In which you may manifestly see diuers Pebbles gathered together and a Crust of Cement or Stone betweene them as hard as the Pebbles themselues And it were good to make a Triall of purpose by taking Clay and putting in it diuers Pebble-Stones thicke set to see whether in continuance of time it will not be harder then other Clay of the same lump in which no Pebbles are set Wee see also in Ruines of old Walls especially towards