Siris: A Chain of Philosophical Reflexions and Inquiries Concerning the Virtues of Tar Water, and Divers Other Subjects Connected Together and Arising One from AnotherDublin printed, London re-printed, for W. Innys, C. Hitch, and C. Davis, 1744 - 174 pages |
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Page 9
... Ray will have this to be the fame with the piffelæum , of the ancients ; but Hardouin in his notes on Pli- ny , thinks the piffelæum to have been produced fron the cones of cedars . What use they made , of these liquors anciently I know ...
... Ray will have this to be the fame with the piffelæum , of the ancients ; but Hardouin in his notes on Pli- ny , thinks the piffelæum to have been produced fron the cones of cedars . What use they made , of these liquors anciently I know ...
Page 11
... Ray informs us is procured from the knots of the filver fir ; it is fragrant and grows yellow with age : The fourth kind is common turpentine neither transparent , nor fo liquid as the former ; and this Mr. Ray taketh to flow from the ...
... Ray informs us is procured from the knots of the filver fir ; it is fragrant and grows yellow with age : The fourth kind is common turpentine neither transparent , nor fo liquid as the former ; and this Mr. Ray taketh to flow from the ...
Page 13
... Ray informs us ) agreeing much with the defcription of a pine growing on mount Olymphus in Phrygia , probably the only place where it is found out out of thefe iflands ; in which of late years it is fo much planted and culti- vated with ...
... Ray informs us ) agreeing much with the defcription of a pine growing on mount Olymphus in Phrygia , probably the only place where it is found out out of thefe iflands ; in which of late years it is fo much planted and culti- vated with ...
Page 20
... rays , by the peculiar powers of the capillary organs in vegetables , at- tracting and imbibing certain rays , which produce certain flavours and qualities , in like manner as certain rays , being reflected , produce certain co- lours ...
... rays , by the peculiar powers of the capillary organs in vegetables , at- tracting and imbibing certain rays , which produce certain flavours and qualities , in like manner as certain rays , being reflected , produce certain co- lours ...
Page 75
... rays or particles of light . And in like -manner , a particular odour or flavour , feemeth to depend on peculiar particles of light or fire ( b ) ; as appears from heats being neceffary to all vegetation whatfoever , and from the ...
... rays or particles of light . And in like -manner , a particular odour or flavour , feemeth to depend on peculiar particles of light or fire ( b ) ; as appears from heats being neceffary to all vegetation whatfoever , and from the ...
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