. Sylva sylvarvm : or, A naturall historie, in ten centuries. NATVRALL HISTORIE I. Century. .. IG G a Pitt vpon the Seajhore, fomewhac a-bouc the High-water Maike, and finckc it asdrcpcasthe Low-Water markcj AndastheT/W^commeth in, it will fill with Water^ Frcfh and Po-tabic. This is commonly praiflized vpon theCoaft of 54r^4r)f,whcreother frcfli fr4/^r is wan-ting. And C ^ s A R knew this well, when hewas bcfieged in •Alexandria. : For by Diggingof Pitts in the Sea pare, heedid fiuftrate the Laborious Workcs ofthe Enemies, which had turned the Sea-fVaier vpon the Wells ofAlexandrta-^ And fo f

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. Sylva sylvarvm : or, A naturall historie, in ten centuries. NATVRALL HISTORIE I. Century. .. IG G a Pitt vpon the Seajhore, fomewhac a-bouc the High-water Maike, and finckc it asdrcpcasthe Low-Water markcj AndastheT/W^commeth in, it will fill with Water^ Frcfh and Po-tabic. This is commonly praiflized vpon theCoaft of 54r^4r)f,whcreother frcfli fr4/^r is wan-ting. And C ^ s A R knew this well, when hewas bcfieged in •Alexandria. : For by Diggingof Pitts in the Sea pare, heedid fiuftrate the Laborious Workcs ofthe Enemies, which had turned the Sea-fVaier vpon the Wells ofAlexandrta-^ And fo faued his Army, being then in Dcfpcration. ButCxfir miftooke the Caufe, For bethought that all Sea-Sandes had Na-turall Springs of Frejl Waiter . But it is plaine, that it is the Sea- Water jbecaufethe Pittfilleth according to theMcafure of the Ttde .• Andl^^ ^iJ^*^^ pafsing or Strayning through the Sandcs, Icaueth theSaltnclTc. I remember to hauc Read, that Trial! hath beene made of Salt Waterpalled through £4r;^ ; throughtenn VcffcllSjOnc within an other,and yet It hath not loft hisS

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