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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
land_n	little_a	sea_n	see_v	1,312	5	3.4874	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60267	Hydrologia chymica, or, The chymical anatomy of the Scarbrough, and other spaws in York-Shire wherein are interspersed some animadversions upon Dr. Wittie's lately published treatise of the Scarbrough-spaw : also a short description of the spaws at Malton and Knarsbrough : and a discourse concerning the original of hot springs and other fountains : with the causes and cures of most of the stubbornest diseases ... : also a vindication of chymical physick ... : lastly is subjoyned an appendix of the original of springs ... / by W. Simpson.	Simpson, William, M.D.	1669 (1669)	Wing S3833; ESTC R24544	218,446	403

a Beast these again by a putrid solution of the Compage are transmuted into Worms Flies and other Insects which often retain some shape of the Animal whence they proceed and that which even now was in the shape of a Beast as Beef Mutton c. is forthwith by the Ferment of an humane stomach transmuted into Man's Blood Flesh c. and these again degenerate into Worms or other Insects in Fevers and being let out of their vessels they undergo any other Analytical putrefaction they become animated in strange different shapes all which is but Water ●or●eus-like under various disguises transmuted by Seed and Ferments out of one shape into another according to the great round of Circulations And all as they have their beginning and subsistence so are also reducible into Water Yea further as Vegetables and Animals have their original from and are reducible in water so also Minerals and Metals And though this is not so demonstrable as the former because we have not that occasion usually to converse with the Subterraneal Products as with Vegetables and Animals yet I find to this purpose what the Learned Squire Boyle cites out of a French Author Monsieur De Rochas who as a Chymist speaking what he could perform by water Having saith he discerned such great wonders by the natural operation of water I would know what may be done with it by Art imitating Nature wherefore I took water which I well knew not to be compounded nor mixed with any other thing than the Spirit of Life and with an heat artificial continual and proportionate I prepared and disposed it by graduations of coagulation congelation and fixation until it was turn'd into earth which earth produced Animals Vegetables and Minerals the Animals did move of themselves eat c. and by the true Anatomy I made of them I found they were compos'd of much Sulphur little Mercury and less Salt The Minerals began to grow and encrease by converting into their own Nature one part of the earth they were solid and heavy and by this truly demonstrative Science namely Chymistry I found they were composed of much Salt little Sulphur and less Mercury By which Experiment according to the relation of the Author Minerals were generated out of water which I suppose was done by some Mineral Seeds or the Analysis of some Mineral Concretes into their secondary Principles which by due digestions assum'd Water for their bodies For Mineral Seeds in their due Matrixes concenter water more or less according to the nature of the Seed and fitness of the place and accordingly give more or less pondus as the purity of the Seed and disposition of the place is whence are lighter and heavier Minerals and Metals Also Metals are reducible into water witness what the foresaid Author saith That by a certain artificial way of handling Mercury without any addition may be separated therefrom a fourth or fifth part of water or clear liquor which for ought I have heard or seen saith he is not reducible into Mercury again and so is more then a disguise That Mercury or rather Quicksilver should in its weight to the like bulk of Water be as fourteen to one is from the Seed of the Quicksilver concentring the body of water according to that proportion towards whose reduction two credible Persons told the foresaid Ingenuous Author That after as he saith many trials which they made to reduce Mercury into Water in order to Philosophical work they did once by divers Cohobations reduce a pound of Mercury into almost a pound of water and this without the addition of any other thing but onely by pressing the Quicksilver by a skilful managed Fire in purposely-contriv'd vessels To the like purpose Isaac Holland and some others speak of separating a water from Quicksilver which they call Aqua Nubis quâ tanquam Hydrops Mercurius turget Not to mention the experiment of increasing the bulk of a stone by the single addition of fountain-water till it swell to the bigness and figure of the glass it 's put into for we see that water needs no more then a petrefying Seed to compress it self or other things it meets with whether Vegetables or the like into a stony concretion as for instance the petrefying well at Knarsborough which hath in continuance of time wrought the earth and grass thereabouts into a rocky Compages with petrefied Isicles hanging down where the very Streams of water as they run along are actually congealed into stones which I say can be from nothing els save a petrefying Seed connatural to that sort of water This Succus lapidificus may haue its Seminals I say from a petrefying Nitre according to the experiment of the learned Kircher Si saxum inquit quodcunque in tennissimum pollinem resolveris et aquâ perfectè commixtum permanicam Hippocratis colaveris illa nil prorsus saxcum sed praeter arenaceum solummodo sedimentum nil relinquet si verò Nitrum vel Tartarum aquae perfectè commixtum addideris illa quaecunque tetigerunt intra subjectam concham posita sive frondes similiaque post exiguum temporis curriculum aeri exposita vel in Saxum ejusdem generis conversum si non totum saltem cortice Saxeo vestient So that the petrefying Seed whether in Water or in Nitre or in the Stone it self is in effect all one So that understanding the nature of a petrefying Seed and the extent of subterraneall Channels from the Sea at great distances upon the Land we need not wonder that some fish is digged up in some places petrified several of which was to be seen amongst John Tradescan's Rarityes That there are Subterraneal Channels not onely from one sea to another but from the seas at very great distances upon the land the Ingenuous Kircher doth fully demonstrate The first by a Dolphin which was taken in the Red Sea which by the command of the Bassa of the place was put into the water again cum laminis in bronchia insertis with these words in Arabick Characters ingraven Amed Abdalla Bassa Sues tibi vitam unà cum hoc munere donavit anno Hegira 720 which Dolphin was the very same year taken in the Mediterranean Sea prope Damiatam which could not possibly be that the Dolohin should swim that vast compass round Affrica and take in at the Streits and so up to the furthest part of the Mediterranean Sea whereas from the Mare rubrum to Damiata is but a small neck of land little above 30 Miles and therefore must pass along those subterraneal channels whereby one Sea communicates with another As there are Subterraneal passages from one sea to another so as I said from the seas to great distances upon the land whence all Fountains Springs and Rivers have their Original and return again into the sea contrary to the opinion of Dr. Wittie In which Subterraneal currents the things carryed along with the water whether fish or the like may when they