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PHILOSOPHICAL
TRANSACTIONS.
September 20. 1669.
The Contents.
The Process used in France of making Sea-salt by the Sun. An Answer to some Inquiries about the late Eruption of Mount Ætna. An Account of two Books: I. DISCOURS de M. STENON sur L' ANATOMIE du CERVEAUII. The former Accompt of Dr Witties ANSWER to HYDROLOGIA CHYMICA enlarged: Where the sanative vertue of the Scarborough Spaw is asserted from long experience; and on that occasion the Healing performance of many other Waters, both in England and elsewhere, discoursed of; together with their particular Cures, Ingredients, Mixtures, and the Wayes of Analysing them; as also the Necessity of using them or most of them at the Spring-head, &c.
An Extract of a Letter
Containing the whole Process, used in France for making Sea-Salt by the Sun; communicated to the Publisher in French, by an Ingenious Dr of Physick of that Nation, residing near the chief place, where 'tis practised; and Englished as follows:
Sir,
I Can at present acquit my self but of one of the Commissions, you gave me when I took my leave of you, referring the other no more leisure.* See the Figure. And I herewith send you the Plan * of our Salt-making Marishes, together
