Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	cold_a	hot_a	moist_a	1,558	5	9.6254	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67006	Brief instructions for making observations in all parts of the world as also, for collecting, preserving, and sending over natural things : being an attempt to settle an universal correspondence for the advancement of knowledg both natural and civil / drawn up at the request of a person of honour and presented to the Royal Society.	Woodward, John, 1665-1728.	1696 (1696)	Wing W3509; ESTC R7163	17,515	26

Bran or Chaff and great care taken of those that are small tender and brittle 12. The greatest Difficulty of all will be to preserve and send over safe the Flies and Insects by reason of the great Tenderness of them Endeavour to procure some of all the several sorts of these not exceeding 3. or 4. of each Worms Grubbs Caterpillars Spiders Beetles Grashoppers c. will keep best if put up as many as conveniently may together in Bottles with Brandy c. But the several sorts of Flies Bees Wasps Butterflies c. ought to be put upon Pins and stuck to the Bottoms Sides and Tops of small Boxes but care must be taken that they stick very fast for if one of them fall off and get loose 't will tumble about and so break and destroy all the rest that are in the Box. 13. It were likewise not amiss to send over some of the Idols of the East or West Indians or any other of the less civilized Nations as also of their Pictures their Writing whether upon Paper or the Leaves or Bark of Trees their Money Weights Measures their Instruments of any kind their Domestick Utensils their Habits or the things they wear Skins of Beasts Feather-dresses Rings Beads c. their Medicines their Poysons their Musical Instruments their Weapons Bows Arrows Darts especially those that are headed or pointed with Flints Bones or Shells their Drums and Tambours c. But for these and especially for the natural things that are thus sent over great Caution ought to be used that the Boxes wherein they are be not turned topsyturvy or much tumbled and shaken in carrying to and from the Ship And above all that the things be not broken or risled and confounded by the Custom-house Officers and Searchers which may be prevented by giving timely notice to your Correspondents here to get a Warrant from the Honourable the Commissioners of the Customs that the Cases and Boxes may not be searched on Ship-board but brought into the Custom-house Ware-house and that some careful person attend there at their opening to see that no Inconvenience or Damage befall them There remains now only one thing more to be hinted and that is in regard the Observations to be made both at Sea and Land are very many and the Plants Minerals and Animals to be collected are also very numerous 't is not expected that any one single Person will have leisure to attend to so many things and therefore 't is only requested that he make such Observations and Collections more or less as may be best suitable to his Convenience and to his Business If there be never so few Observations made or things collected yet even they will be very gratefully received But for such curious and inquisitive Persons who shall generously bestow a yet greater Diligence and Application in the Promotion of these many of them so very useful and considerable Parts of Knowledge the learned and better Part of Mankind will be so much the more highly obliged unto them And here are many of these things especially the gathering and preserving of Insects Shells Plants Minerals c. may be done by the Hands of Servants and that too at their spare and leisure times or in Journies in the Plantations in Fishing Fowling c. without Hindrance of any other Business the things herein desired being common and such as one or other of them occur in almost all Places Some Additions to be inserted each in their proper Places WHether some Seas be not salter than others This may be tryed partly by boyling or evaporating an equal Quantity of the Water of different Seas and then observing what Proportion of Salt each yields and partly by finding the several Gravities of the Waters of the said Seas by means of the Instrument mentioned Numb 4. in the List beneath By the same Instrument may the Weight of the Waters of Mineral-springs Hot-bathes and Lakes be tryed which it were to be wish'd might be done in all Places But above all Enquiry should be made whether the Sea in some Parts of it and Lakes have not their Water impregnated with Nitre and other Minerals besides Salt This may be discovered by the Taste or Smell of the Water by evaporating it or some other proper means The different Colour Thickness and Muddiness of the Water of the Sea and Lakes ought likewise to be noted What perpendicular Height the Sea rises at high-water I mean how much it rises above the Level of low-water Observe further at what time of the Moon and seasons of the Year the Sea ebbs lowest or flows highest in any Place not neglecting to note all other Accidents and Circumstances of the Tydes whatever they be Things flung upon the Shores by the Sea Amongst the rest look diligently for Amber-gris the Natural History of which is yet very little known 'T is supposed to be cast out by the Sea but whether it be so really or be drawn out of the adjacent Cliffs as many other Bodies are that were supposed to be owing to the Sea is to be determined by future Enquirers who would do well not only to make this a Part of their Consideration but to observe likewise its colour smell and taste The Quantity of it what other Bodies are mixt with it or lye near it Also the condition of the Sea thereabouts whether turbulent usually or calm whether the Water be frothy or oyly and to be short all other circumstances that may give any light into this matter Of Winds Also of the different Effects Constitutions and Temperatures of Winds which hot which cold which moist or attended with Mists or Rain which dry c. Of Springs And whether there do not sometimes happen extraordinary Eruptions or vast discharges of water out of them without any externally apparent Cause The same also concerning Lakes as likewise concerning Grottoes Rivers And whether these do not also suffer sudden and unusual Eruptions of Water forth of their Sources whether they have not periodical Inundations occasioned by the great Rains that fall at certain Seasons as the Nile Ganges and several other Rivers have how high the Tides rise at their Ostia or outlets and how far they flow up them with the periods of the flux or reflux Mines How deep are the deepest Mines and Colepits whether there be not water continually draining and ouzing through the Ores of Metals and the Spar and other Minerals that lie in the Clefts of the Stone what are the peculiar Diseases that attend the Miners what Mines are chiefly detrimental to Health and whether there be not some that are observed considerably to shorten the Lives of the Miners also whether the Smoke Ashes c. that fall upon the Grass near the Forges and Smelting-works be not hurtful to the Cattle that feed upon it Lastly Whether the very Waters of the Springs Rivers and Brooks near especially about Lead-Mines are not