Part VI

or Frojl : Frofi^ when it congealeth before it ' refolves into water ^ Dcvo.^ when it turns into water, fo as the twirmth cannot dry it up, nor the cold freeze ir.
k Snoiii is a congealed, cloud ; Iva/V, Dew Froji and Snow differ almoft only in bignefs and Imalnels.
/ Hail., tho’ it be of the fame nature as Ice, yet is feldom produced in Winter, as beingjeauied by Antiperiflafis.
m As the Air above the Earth condenfed, be- cometh vapour, and vapour by- cold becometh water^ fcf dothit alfo in thb- caverns and recep tacles of the Earth, by a continual mutation -, firft it turns into little drops, then thole little into greater. Hence come all Springs and heads of Rivers, abundantly flowing out at one part of the Earth., Hence great Rivers and Foun¬ tains commonly flow from great Hills, which have greateft Caverns.
n The. parts of the Earth are in continual mutation, lometimes humid, Ibmetimes dry, ■fometimes. fertile, fometimes defert, by new eruptions or deletions of Rivers, or accefs or recefs of the Sea, according to certain periods of tiffie. Thus have the parts of the Earth their youth and. age, as well as Plants and living Crea¬ tures, by the heat and converfion of the Sun. Fime and ^FzWorld are Eternal ^ but IKiliis and 'TamL' were not always, for thole places whence they firlt ilfued, were once dry grounds.
' . 0 The proper place of vyater is the concave ■fuperficies of the Air: This" place the Sea, com- palfing the Earth, poflelTeth •, for the fwift and more rare water is drawn upwards by the heat of theSunVthe Salt, more thick and terrene, fet- leth dowiiwardSi, For this reafon all waters tend to the S ea, as to their proper place ; Yet, hereby tlie Sea is hot enlarged, for the, Sun draweth out of it, by reafon of its exparifion, as great a quan¬ tity of water as it received! from Rivers.
p The Sea is, as the World, Eternal, the falt- nefs thereof pfdceedeth ffom.admixtibnof fome terrene, aduft,'^exhalafioni "From the top of the Sea is drawn u|f a irplli, vapour ^ from the bottom, heated by the Sun, ah exhalation, which paffeth through the Sea, ahdicbineth up with the vapdift-, .hut falling back into the Sea, bring- eth that faltneEi with it, as wuter. palTed often through Allies."^ ,, ' F ' '
q IlY;y of ahot, drF exhalation,.,.wIiich:jaE:ending, is driven down again by the.eoldnels^of the mid¬ dle . fbe^ion of Sjte Air, ahd,!h}f feafon of the ii^tnel? At it^. nature, ;Canp6t go,dire£tly to the Eottofn','%i‘t::'iFcarried by die. Ain up and down. We calj. ft'F. hot and dry exhalation, as being inbredry diahliumidi Wind'isweakeft in thebe-
vfrith ‘by| the vy'^yi ^ .
F W^d^afe laid % heat and.cold, exeefTive-. hdat cOmurriedi' Ahe e^tharatipqsh US foon a& it cometh.oufof! the’Earth C jexeeltiye cold , binds yp' the pbrd bf. the B.hrth, fo as itfcannot pals. i^f Eanhqifakd H u trembling;., pf t|ie Earth, b^fed by'anixhitatioh hof a'nd'^yg ipcloled in .the boweils pf the' ‘ Earth, ovhich, 'lirwing to. get' ‘forth y as - it^hatu re .requirbth,' and npt able,, by reaToiroFthet^l^foy.^'o^ fatth, to pals, ma-
keth the Earth lhake, forcing a way through it, and bearing down whatfoever oppofeth it. The more hot this included Spirit is, the more ve¬ hement. *
Of the fame nature is Lightning^ Thunder., and the like. Thunder is, when an exhalation indofed in a thick cold Cloud, rolleth it up and down,and at laft breaketh through it with more or lels nolle, according to the thickne'fs of the Cloud, By this eruption it acquireth a rare kind of heat and light, which is Lightning., fub- lequent to the noife of the eruption ^ yet leen before 'the other is heard, by reafon of the quick- , nels of th.e light beyond the hearing.
t As of dry exhalations, the rare and dilper- ^ Cap. j. fed produce Thunder and Lightning-, fo of the great and condenled is made Tvpuv, tjh-
and Thunderbolts.
u Of lucid Meteors appearing in the Clouds, ^Cib. ^.cap.2. are Haloes^ Rain Bows.^ Farelies., and Streaks :
All thefe are catifed by reffabfion, but differ ac¬ cording to the objebfs from which they are re- fiebled. A Halo appeareth about fome Star,when there hapneth a Cloud to be, the middle part whereof, by reafon of its rarity, being diflipated the reff of the parts about, by reflebfion, repre- lent the colour of the Star. Rainbow is a reffa- bfion of the Sun’s beam upon a humid Cloud, ready to dilTolve into Rain. In like manner are caufed Farelies and Streaks.
X There are likewife imperfe£l mixt Bodies, Cap. 7. under, or within the Earth, and thefe alfo of two kinds -, Ibme caufed by exhalation, called Minerals -, .others by vapour, called Metals.^ fu- file or duftile.
CHAP. XIII.
OJ perfebl mixt Bodies.
a H E common affeHions of perfeH: mixt
X Bodies, are thofe which proceed from * ^'^*4
the primary qualities of the Elements, whereof two are abfive. Heat and Coldj two paffive, hu¬ midity and ficcity. The natural effeft of thefe is Generation., when Heat and Cold overcome the Matter otlierwife it is inquination and * inconcobiion. The oppofite to fimple Generation is FutrefaUion y every thing, unlels violently diC 5
folved, putrifieth. Hence thofe things that putri- fie, become firft humid, then dry for the exter¬ nal heat expelleth the internal, and at laft confu- , meth it. All things therefore putrifie except fire, for, putrefabfion is the corruption of the natural- -
heat in every humid body, by the external. For this reafon, things are lefs liibjecf to putrifie in i cold or in motion, and the hotter or greater they I are as a part of the ^ea may putrifie, the whole 1: cannot.
j Out of putrid thingsarebredlivingcreaturesj- ! for the natural heat, whilft it is feparating, en- t deavoureth as much as polfible, that what is ta- .
'ken afunder and fegregated by corruption, may j gather together in fome Imall parts, which after¬ wards, by help of the Sun, receive life. Thus are Worms, Beetles, Gnats, and other Infefls bred. .
b ConcoSidn is the efFefl; of heat, incon-^^ ^
I coftion of cold. Concofition is a perfe^ion cau- 1 fed