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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

it selfe and there were found in it a Booke and a Letter Both written in fine Parchment and wrapped in Sindons of Linnen The Booke conteined all the Canonicall Bookes of the Old and New Testament according as you haue them For we know well what the Churches with you receiue And the Apocalypse it selfe And Some other Bookes of the New Testament which were not at that time written were neuerthelesse in the Booke And for the Letter it was in these words IBartholomew a Seruant of the Highest and Apostle of IESVS CHRIST was warned by an Angell that appeared to me in a vision of Glory that I should commit this Arke to the flouds of the Sea Therefore I doe testifie and declare vnto that People where GOD shall ordaine this Ark to come to Land that in the same day is come vnto them Saluation and Peace and Good Will from the Father and from the LORD IESVS There was also in both these writings as well the Booke as the Letter wrought a great Miracle Conforme to that of the Apostles in the Originall Gift of Tongues For there being at that time in this Land Hebrewes Persians and Indians besides the Natiues euery one redd vpon the Booke and Letter as if they had been written in his owne Language And thus was this Land saued from Infidelity as the Remaine of the Old World was from Water by an Ark through the Apostolicall and Miraculous Euangelisme of Saint Bartholomew And here hee paused and a Messenger came and called him from vs. So this was all that passed in that Conference The next Day the same Gouernour came againe to vs immediately after Dinner and excused himselfe saying That the Day before he was called from vs somewhat abruptly but now he would make vs amends and spend time with vs if we held his Company and Conference agreeable Wee answered That wee held it so agreeable and pleasing to vs as wee forgot both Dangers past and Feares to come for the time wee heard him speake And that wee thought an Houre spent with him was worth Yeares of our former life He bowed himselfe a little to vs and after we were set againe he said Well the Questions are on your part One of our Number said after a little Pause That there was a Matter wee were no lesse desirous to know then fearefull to aske least wee might presume too farre But encouraged by his rare Humanity towards vs that could scarce thinke our selues Strangers being his vowed and professed Seruants We would take the Hardines to propound it Humbly beseeching him if hee thought it not fit to bee answered that hee would pardon it though he reiected it Wee said VVee well obserued those his words which hee formerly spake that this happy Island wher we now stood was knowne to few and yet knew must of the Nations of the World which we found to be true considering they had the Languages of Europe and knew much of our State and Businesse And yet we in Europe notwithstanding all the remote Discoueries and Nauigations of this last Age neuer heard any of the least Inkling or Glimse of this Island This we found wonderfull strange For that all Nations haue Enterknowledge one of another either by Voyage into Forraigne Parts or by Strangers that come to them And though the Trauailer into a Forreine Countrey doth commonly know more by the Eye then he that stayeth at home can by relation of the Trauailer Yet both wayes suffice to make a mutuall Knowledge in some degree on both parts But for this Island wee neuer heard tell of any Shipp of theirs that had been Seene to arriue vpon any Shore of Europe No nor of either the East or West Indies nor yet of any Shipp of any other part of the World that had made returne from them And yet the Maruell rested not in this For the Situation of it as his Lordship said in the secret Conclaue of such a vast Sea mought cause it But then that they should haue Knowledge of the Languages Bookes Affaires of those that lye such a distance from them it was a thing wee could not tell what to make of For that it seemed to vs a condition and Proprietie of Diuine Powers and Beings to be hidden and vnseene to others and yet to haue others open and as in a light to them At this speach the Gouernour gaue a gracious smile and sayd That we did well to aske pardon for this Question we now asked For that it imported as if we thought this Land a Land of Magicians that sent forth Spirits of the Ayre into all parts to bring them Newes and Intelligence of other Countries It was answered by vs all in all possible humblenes but yet with a Countenance taking knowledge that we knew he spake it but merrily That we were apt enough to think ther was some what supernaturall in this Island but yet rather as Angelicall then Magicall But to let his Lordship know truely what it was that made vs tender and doubtful to aske this Question it was not any such conceit but because we remembred he had giuen a Touch in his former Speach that this Land had Lawes of Secrecy touching Strangers To this he said You remember it aright And therefore in that I shall say to you I must reserue some particulars which it is not lawfull for mee to reueale but there will bee enough left to giue you satisfaction You shall vnderstand that which perhaps you will scarce think credible that about three thousand Yeares agoe or somewhat more the Nauigation of the World specially for remote Voyages was greater then at this Day Doe not thinke with your selues that I know not how much it is encreased with you within these sixescore Years I know it well And yet I say greater then than now Whether it was that the Example of the Ark that saued the Remnant of Men from the vniuersall Deluge gaue Men confidence to aduenture vpon the Waters Or what it was but such is the Truth The Phoeniceans and specially the Tyrians had great Fleetes So had the Carthaginians their Colony which is yet further West Toward the East the Shipping of Egypt and of Palestina was likewise great China also and the great Atlantis that you call America which haue now but Iunks and Canoa's abounded then in tall Ships This Island as appeareth by faithfull Registers of those times had then fifteene hundred strong Ships of great content Of all this there is with you sparing Memory or none But we haue large Knowledge thereof At that time this Land was knowne and frequented by the Shipps and Vessells of all the Nations before named And as it commeth to passe they had many times Men of other Countries that were no Saylers that came with them As Persians Chaldeans Arabians So as almost all Nations of Might and Fame resorted hither Of whom we haue some Stirps and little Tribes with vs at this day And for our owne Ships they

such as they are a little till true Axiomes may be more fully discouered I haue heard his Lordship say also that one great Reason why he would not put these Particulars into any exact Method though he that looketh attentiuely into them shall finde that they haue a secret Order was because hee conceiued that other men would now thinke that they could doe the like And so goe on with a further Collection which if the Method had been Exact many would haue despaired to attaine by Imitation As for his Lordships loue of Order I can referr any Man to his Lordships Latine Booke De Augmentis Scientiarum which if my Iudgment be any thing is written in the Exactest Order that I know any Writing to bee I will conclude with an vsuall Speech of his Lordships That this Worke of his Naturall History is the World as GOD made it and not as Men haue made it For that it hath nothing of Imagination W Rawley NATVRALL HISTORIE I. Century DIGG a Pitt vpon the Sea shore somewhat aboue the High-water Marke and sincke it as deepe as the Low-Water marke And as the Tide commeth in it will fill with Water Fresh and Potable This is commonly practized vpon the Coast of Barbary where other fresh Water is wanting And CAESAR knew this well when he was besieged in Alexandria For by Digging of Pitts in the Sea shoare hee did frustrate the Laborious Workes of the Enemies which had turned the Sea-Water vpon the Wells of Alexandria And so saued his Army being then in Desperation But Caesar mistooke the Cause For he thought that all Sea-Sandes had Naturall Springs of Fresh Water But it is plaine that it is the Sea-Water because the Pitt filleth according to the Measure of the Tide And the Sea-water passing or Strayning through the Sandes leaueth the Saltnesse I remember to haue Read that Triall hath beene made of Salt Water passed through Earth through Tenn Vessells one within an other and yet it hath not lost his Saltnesse as to become potable But the same Man saith that by the Relation of Another Salt Water drained through twenty Vessells hath become Fresh This Experiment seemeth to crosse that other of Pitts made by the Sea side And yet but in part if it be true that twentie Repetitions doe the Effect But it is worth the Note how poore the Imitations of Nature are in Common course of Experiments except they be led by great Iudgement and some good Light of Axiomes For first ther is no small difference betweene a Passage of Water through twenty small Vessells And through such a distance as betweene the Low water and High water Marke Secondly there is a great difference betweene Earth and Sand. For all Earth hath in it a kinde of Nitrous Salt from which Sand is more free And besides Earth doth not straine the Water so finely as Sand doth But ther is a Third Point that I suspect as much or more then the other Two And that is that in the Experiment of Transmission of the Sea-water into the Pitts the Water riseth But in the Experiment of Transmission of the Water through the Vessells it falleth Now certaine it is that the Salter Part of Water once Salted throughout goeth to the Bottome And therfore no meruaile if the Draining of Water by descent doth not make it fresh Besides I doe somewhat doubt that the very Dashing of the Water that commeth from the Sea is more proper to strike of the Salt part then wher the Water slideth of her owne Motion It seemeth Percolation or Transmission which is commonly called Straining is a good kinde of Separation Not onely of Thicke from Thin and Grosse from Fine But of more subtile Natures And varieth according to the Bodie through which the Transmission is made As if through a wollen Bagg the Liquour leaueth the Fatnesse If through Sand the Saltnesse c. They speake of Seuering Wine from Water passing it through Iuy wood or through other the like porous Body But Non Constat The Gumm of Trees which wee see to be commonly shining and cleare is but a fine Passage or Straining of the Iuice of the Tree through the Wood and Bark And in like manner Cornish Diamonds and Rock Rubies which are yet more resplendent then Gumms are the fine Exudations of Stone Aristotle giueth the Cause vainely why the Feathers of Birdes are of more liuely Colours then the Haires of Beastes for no Beast hath any fine Azure or Carnation or Greene Haire He saith It is because Birds are more in the Beames of the Sunn then Beasts But that is manifestly vntrue For Cattle are more in the Sun then Birds that liue commonly in the Woods or in some Couert The true Cause is that the Excrementious Moisture of liuing Creatures which maketh as well the Feathers in Birds as the Haire in Beasts passeth in Birds through a finer and more delicate Strainer then it doth in Beastes For Feathers passe through Quills And Haire through Skin The Clarifying of Liquors by Adhesion is an Inward Percolation And is effected when some Cleauing Body is Mixed and Agitated with the Liquours wherby the grosser Part of the Liquor sticks to that Cleauing Body And so the finer Parts are freed from the Grosser So the Apothecaries clarify their Sirrupes by whites of Eggs beaten with the Iuices which they would clarify which Whites of Eggs gather all the Dreggs and grosser Parts of the Iuyce to them And after the Sirrupe being sett on the Fire the whites of Egges themselues harden and are taken forth So Ippocrasse is clarified by mixing with Milke And stirring it about And then passing it through a Wollen Bagge which they call Hippocrates Sleeue And the Cleauing Nature of the Milke draweth the Powder of the Spices and Grosser parts of the Liquour to it And in the passage they stick vpon the Woollen Bagge The Clarifying of Water is an Experiment tending to Health besides the pleasure of the Eye when Water is Crystaline It is effected by casting in and placing Pebbles at the Head of a Current that the Water may straine through them It may be Percolation doth not onely cause Clearenesse and Splendour but Sweetnes of Sauour For that also followeth as well as Clearenes when the Finer Parts are seuered from the Grosser So it is found that the Sweates of Men that haue much Heat and exercise much and haue cleane Bodies and fine Skins doe smell sweet As was said of Alexander And we see commonly that Gumms haue sweet Odours TAke a Glasse and put Water into it and wett your Finger and draw it round about the Lipp of the Glasse pressing it somewhat hard And after you haue drawne it some few times about it will make the Water friske and sprinckle vp in a fine Dew This Instance doth excellently Demonstrate the Force of Compression in a Solid Body For whensoeuer a Solid Body as Wood Stone Mettall c. is pressed ther is

vnder the Arme-Holes and on the Sides The Cause is the Thinnesse of the Skin in those Parts Ioyned with the Rarenesse of being touched there For all Tickling is a light Motion of the Spirits which the Thinnesse of the Skin and Suddennesse and Rarenesse of Touch doe further For we see a Feather or a Rush drawne along the Lip or Cheeke doth tickle Whereas a Thing more Obtuse or a Touch more Hard doth not And for Suddennesse We see no Man can tickle himselfe Wee see also that the Palme of the Hand though it hath as Thinne a Skin as the other Parts Mentioned yet is not Ticklish because it is accustomed to be Touched Tickling also causeth Laughter The Cause may be the Emission of the Spirits and so of the Breath by a Flight from Titillation For vpon Tickling we see there is euer a Starting or Shrinking away of the Part to auoid it And we see also that if you Tickle the Nosthrills with a Feather or Straw it procureth Sneezing Which is a Sudden Emission of the Spirits that doe likewise expell the Moisture And Tickling is euer Painfull and not well endured It is strange that the Riuer of Nilus Ouer-flowing as it doth the Country of AEgypt there should be neuerthelesse little or no Raine in that Country The Cause must be Either in the Nature of the Water Or in the Nature of the Aire Or of Both. In the Water it may be ascribed either vnto the Long ●●● of the Water For Swift Running Waters vapour not so much as Standing Waters Or else to the Concoction of the Water For Waters well Concocted vapour not so much as Waters Raw No more than Waters vpon the Fire doe vapour so much after some time of Boyling as at the first And it is true that the Water of Nilus is sweeter than other Waters in Taste And it is excellent Good for the Stone and Hypochondriacall Melancholy Which sheweth it is Lenefying And it runneth thorow a Countrey of a Hot Climate and flat without Shade either of Woods or Hills Whereby the Sunne must needs haue great Power to Concoct it As for the Aire from whence I conceiue this Want of Showers commeth chiefly The Cause must be for that the Aire is of it selfe Thin and Thirsty And as soone as euer it getteth any Moisture from the Water it imbibeth and dissipateth it in the whole body of the Aire And suffereth it not to remaine in Vapour Whereby it might breed Raine It hath beene touched in the Title of Percolations Namely such as are Inwards that the Whites of Eggs and Milke doe clarifie And it is certaine that in AEgypt they prepare and clarifie the Water of Nile by putting it into great Iarres of Stone and Stirring it about with a few Stamped Almonds Wherewith they also besmeare the Mouth of the Vessell And so draw it off after it hath rested some time It were good to trie this Clarifying with Almonds in New Beere or Must to hasten and perfect the Clarifying There be scarce to be found any Vegetables that haue Branches and no Leaues except you allow Corall for one But there is also in the Desarts of S. Macario in AEgypt a Plant which is Long Leauelesse Browne of Colour and Branched like Corall faue that it closeth at the Top. This being set in Water within House spreadeth and displayeth strangely And the People thereabouts haue a Superstitious Beleefe that in the Labour of Women it helpeth to the Easie Deliuerance The Crystalline Venice Glasse is reported to be a Mixture in equall Portions of Stones brought from Pauia by the Riuer Ticinum And the Ashes of a Weed called by the Arabs Kall which is gathered in a Desart betweene Alexandria and Rosetta And is by the AEgyptians vsed first for Fuell And then they crush the Ashes into Lumps like a Stone And so sell them to the Venetians for their Glasse-workes It is strange and well to be noted how long Carkasses haue continued Vncorrupt and in their former Dimensions As appeareth in the Mummies of AEgypt Hauing lafted as is conceiued some of them three thousand yeeres It is true they finde Meanes to draw forth the Braines and to take forth the Entrailes which are the Parts apteft to corrupt But that is nothing to the Wonder For wee see what a Soft and Corruptible Substance the Flesh of all the other Parts of the Body is But it should seeme that according to our Obseruation and Axiorne in our hundredth Experiment Putrefaction which we conceiue to be so Naturall a Period of Bodies is but an Accident And that Matter maketh not that Haste to Corruption that is conceiued And therefore Bodies in Shining-Amber In Quicke-Siluer In Balmes whereof wee now speake In Wax In Honey In Gummes And it may be in Conseruatories of Snow c. are preserued very long It need not goe for Repetition if we resume againe that which wee said in the aforesaid Experiment concerning Annihilation Namely that if you prouide against three Causes of Putrefaction Bodies will not corrupt The First is that the Aire be excluded For that vndermineth the Body and conspireth with the Spirit of the Body to dissolue it The Second is that the Body Adiacent and Ambiens be not Commateriall but meerely Heterogeneall towards the Body that is to be presured For if Nothing can be receiued by the One Nothing can issue from the Other Such are Quick-Siluer White-Amber to Herbs and Flies and such Bodies The Third is that the Body to be preserued be not of that Grasse that it may corrupt within it selfe although no Part of it issue into the Body Adiacent And therefore it must be rather Thinne and Small than of Bulke There is a Fourth Remedie also which is That if the Body to be preserued be of Bulke as a Corps is then the Body that Incloseth it must haue a Vertue to draw forth and drie the Moisture of the Inward Body For else the Putrefaction will play within though Nothing issue forth I remember Liuy doth relate that there were found at a time two Coffins of Lead in a Tombe Whereof the one contained the Body of King Numa It being some foure hundred yeares after his Death And the other his Bookes of Sacred Rites and Ceremonies and the Discipline of the Pontises And that in the Coffin that had the Body there was Nothing at all to be seene but a little light Cinders about the Sides But in the Coffin that had the Bookes they were found as fresh as if they had beene but newly Written being written in Parchment and couered ouer with Watch-Candles of Wax three or foure fold By this it seemeth that the Romans in Numa's time were not so good Embalmers as the AEgyptians were Which was the Cause that the Body was vtterly consumed But I finde in Plutarch and Others that when Augustus Caesar visited the Sepulchre of Alexander the Great in Alexandria he found the Body to keepe his

Inuentions as wee thinke good And wee doe also declare Naturall Diuinations of Diseases Plagues Swarmes of Hurtfull Creatures Scarcety Tempests Earthquakes Great Inundations Cometts Temperature of the Yeare and diuerse other Things And wee giue Counsell thereupon what the People shall doe for the Preuention and Remedy of them And when Hee had sayd this Hee stood vp And I as I had beene taught kneeled downe and He layd his Right Hand vpon my Head and said GOD blesse thee my Sonne And GOD blesse this Relation which I haue made I giue thee leaue to Publish it for the Good of other Nations For wee here are in GODS Bosome a Land vnknowne And so hee left mee Hauing assigned a Valew about two Thousand Duckets for a Bounty to mee and my Fellowes For they giue great Largesses they come vpon all occasions The rest was not Perfected MAGNALIA NATVRAE PRAECIPVE QVOAD VSVS HVMANOS THe Prolongation of Life The Restitution of Youth in some Degree The Retardation of Age. The Curing of Diseases counted Incurable The Mitigation of Paine More Easie and lesse Loathsome Purgings The Encreasing of Strength and Actiuity The Encreasing of Ability to suffer Torture or Paine The Altering of Complexions And Fatnesse and Leannesse The Altering of Statures The Altering of Features The Encreasing and Exalting of the Intellectuall Parts Versions of Bodies into other Bodies Making of New Species Transplanting of one Species into another Instruments of Destruction as of Warre and Poyson Exhilaration of the Spirits and Putting them in good Disposition Force of the Imagination either vpon another Body or vpon the Body it selfe Acceleration of Time in Maturations Acceleration of Time in Clasifications Acceleration of Putrefaction Acceleration of Decoction Acceleration of Germination Making Rich Composts for the Earth Impressions of the Aire and Raising of Tempests Great Alteration As in Induration Emollition c. Turning Crude and VVatry Substances into Oyly and Vnctious Substances Drawing of New Foodes out of Substances not now in Vse Making New Threds for Apparell And New Stuffes Such as are Paper Glasse c. Naturall Diuinations Deceptions of the Senses Greater Pleasures of the Senses Artificiall Mineralls and Cements FINIS In the New Atlantis Pag. 28. lin 27. for both read bath Pag. 36. lin 6. for procueed read produced This Epistle is the same that should haue been prefixed to this Booke if his Lordship had liued Experiments in Consort touching the Straining and Passing of Bodies one through another which they Call Percolation Experiments in Consort touching Motion of Bodies vpon their Pressure Experiments in Consort touching Separations of Bodies by Weight Experiments in Consort touching Iudicious Accurate Infusions both in Liquors and Aire Experiment Solitary touching the Appetite of Continuation in liquids Experiment Solitary touching the Making of Artificiall Springs Experiment Solitary touching the Venemous Quality of Mans Flesh. Experiment Solitary touching the Version and Transmutation of Aire into Water Experiment Solitary touching Helpes towards the Beauty and good Features of Persons Experiments Solitary touching the Condensing of Aire in such sort as it may put on Weight and yield Nourishment Experiment Solitary touching the Cōmixture of Flame and Aire and the great Force therof Experiment Solitary touching the Secret Nature of Flame Experiment Solitory touching the Different force of Flame in the Middest and on the Sides Experiment Solitary touching the Decrease of the Naturall motion of Grauity in great distance from the Earth or within some depth of the Earth Experiment Solitary touching the Contraction of Bodies in Bulke by the Mixture of the more Liquid Body with the more Solid Experiment Solitary touching the Making Vines more fruitfull Experiments in Consort touching Purging Medicines Experiments in Consort touching Meats and Drinks that are most Nourishing Experiment Solitary touching Filum Medicinale Experiment Solitary touching Cure by Custome Experiment Solitary touching Cure by Excesse Experiment Solitary touching Cure by Motion of Consent Experiment Solitary touching Cure of Diseases which are contrary to Predist sition Experiment Solitary touching Preparations before Purging and setling of the Body afterward Experiment Solitary touching Stocking of Bloud Experiment Solitary touching Change of Aliments and Medicines Experiment Solitary touching Diets Experiments in Consort touching the Production of Cold. Experiments in Cōsort touching the Version and Transmutation of Aire into water Experiments in Consort touching Induration of Bodies Experiment Solitary touching the Version of water into Aire Experiment Solitary touching the Force of Vnion Experiment Solitary touching the Producing of Feathers and Haires of diuers Colours Experiment Solitary touching the Nourishment of Liuing Creatures before they be brought forth Experiments in Cōsort touching Sympathy and Antipathy for Medicinall vse Experiment Solitary touching the Secret Processes of Nature Experiment Solitary touching the Power of Heat Amalgama Experiment Solitary touching the Impossibility of Annibilation Experiments in Consort touching Musicke Experiments in Consort touching Sounds and first touching the Nullity and Entity of Sounds Experiments in Cōsort touching Production Conseruation and Dilation of Sounds And the Office of the Aire therein Experiments in Cōsort touching the Magnitude and Exiluy and Damps of Sounds Experiments in Consort touching the Loudnesse or Sofinesse of Sounds and their Carriage at longer or shorter Distance Experiments in Consort touching the Communication of Sounds Experiments in Cōsort touching Equality and Inequality of Sounds Experiments in Consort touching the ●●● treble and the ●●● Base Tones or Musicall Sounds Experiments in Consort touching the Proportion of Treble and Base Tones Experiments in Consort touching Exteriour and Interiour Sounds Experiments in Consort touching Articulation of Sounds Experiments in Consort touching the Motions of Sounds in what Lines they are Circular Oblique Straight Vpwards downwards Forwards Backwards Experiments in Cōsort touching the Lasting and Perishing of Sounds And touching the Time they require to their Generation or Delation Experiments in Consort touching the Passage and Interceptions of Sounds Experiments in Cōsort touching the Medium of Sounds Experiments in Consort what the Figures of the Pipes or Concanes or the Bodies Diferent conduce to the Sounds Experiments in Consort touching the Mixture of Sounds Experiments in Consort touching Melioration of Sounds Experiments in Cōsort touching the Imitation of Sounds Experiments in Consort touching the Reflexion of Sounds Experiments in Cōsort touching the Consent and Dissint between Visibles Audibles Experiments in Consort touching the Sympathy or Antipathy of sounds one with another Experiments in Consort touching the Hindring or Helping of the Hearing Experiments in Consort touching the Spirituall and Fine Nature of Sounds Experiment Solitary touching the Orient Colours in dissolution of Metalls Experiment Solitary touching Prolongation of Life Experiment Solitary touching Appetite of Vnion in Bodies Experiment Solitary touching the like O●●●●●●ons of Heat and Time Experiment Solitary touching the differing Operations of Fire and Time Experiment Solitary touching Motions by Inuitation Experiment Solitary touching Infectious Disease Experiment Solitary touching the incorporation