“ And again, when Gods peculiar People after the Conquest of their Enemies, were first establisht in peace and prosperity, their Philosophical Monarch was inspired with the sublimest Wisdom, not only for the Building of a Glorious Temple in the Holy City, but also for the Culture of the Land of Promise with the Plantations of Gardens and Orchards ”

“ The Leach-brine, that runs from the Barrows, they put into the next Boyling for 'tis to their advantage, being salt melted, and wanting only hardning.
This work is perform'd in 2. hours in the smaller panns, which are shallower, and generally boyle their brine more away; wherefore their Salt will last better, though it does not granulate so well, because, when the Brine is wasted, the fire and stirring breaks the Cornes. But this Salt weighs heavier, and melts not so soon; and therefore is bought by them, that carry it farr. ”

“ Thus they have a rich Brine in their chief Pit atMidle-wich, which yields a full fourth part of Salt, like the rich Burgundian Springs, mentioned in Kircher's Mundus Subterraneus; yet this is so thrifty of its Brine, that the Inhabitants are limited to their proportions out of it, and their quantity is supply'd out of Pitts that afford a weaker Brine. Our, Pitt at Nantwich yields but a sixth part; but then 'tis so plentiful a Spring, that, whereas they seldome Wall, that is, make Salt, in above 6. Houses at a time, and there are or should be about 50. ”

“ What is the Manner of their Work? or What Time of boyling the Salt-water? Whether they use any peculiar thing to make it granulate, and if so, What that is? Their manner of working is this: They have formerly boyl'd their Brine in 6. Leaden pans with wood-fire; upon which accompt they all claime their interest in the Pitt by the name of so many Six Leads Walling; by which they each know their proportion; but in the memory of many alive they changed their 6. Leads into 4 Iron-pans, something better than a yard square, and about 6. ”

“ I shall tell you, that March 8. 1668. I weighed two pounds of distilled water in a narrow-mouthed Glass-bottle, that I might make an exact marks for a quart. This Bottle, being fil'd with our Brine to the very same mark, weigh'd (besides the tare of the Bottle) two pounds three ounces and five drachmes. This was taken up, when the Wich-houses but began to work, so that the Pitt was but little drawn. I fill'd up the Bottle with the same Brine, and it weighed just three drachms more. This Brine, boyled away without any addition or clarification, made five ounces and two drachmes of Salt. ”

“ Now when our idle Multitudes shall be strongly inured to those innocent and profitable Employments, till all our Hills, which are now bald, shall be shelter'd with the Cheinut, the Beech, the Pine, Box, Maple, and the Royal Oak ”

“ Out of which Pitt they drew Brine with a pitcher tyed to a cart-rope, but could then find no bottom with the ropes they had there: Since, the Pitt is filled up with water, and now doth not taste Salt, but a very little brackish, a very small rindlet pulling through it. The nearest Salt-springs to this place are at Dartwich about 3. miles from it, belonging to the present Lord Keeper, and My Lord Cholmondeley.
Some Hills we have, but no bigg ones, near our Springs; which generally lye all along the River Weever, as Hankollow Hatherton, Osterson, Batherton, Nantwich, Weever, Lestwich, Northwich ”

“ Thus He, and other Generous persons, can in the crowd of public business, find, or make leisure to oblige all men; whilst Morose Schoolmen, and Narrow Criticks, make it their main business to outgoe Satan in their false Accusations, disingenuous Surmises, and immodest Disturbances of the noblest endeavors and atchievments. ”

“ What kind of Country 'tis thereabout, where the Springs are, whither Hilly &c.; And what Plants grow near them? Our Country is generally at low ground, witness the name given to it (the Vale Royal of England;) yet 'tis very full of Collicular Eminencies, and various Risings, to distinguish it from being all Meadow. ”

“ After all their Leach-Brine is in, they boyle gently till a kind of Scum come on it like a thin Jce; which is the first appearance of the Salt: then that sinks, and the Brine every where gathers into Cornes at the bottom to it, which they gently rake together with their Loots: I say, gently; for much stirring breakes the Corne. So they continue, till there is but very little brine left in the Pann ”

“ Christopher Wren's Engin, designed for Grinding Hyperbolical Glases.⁠ Some Inquiries concerning the Salt-springs at Nantwich, answered.⁠ An Extract of a Letter, concerning the Death of the Bigg-breasted Woman, discoursed of in Numb. 52.⁠An accompt of some Books:⁠ I. CERTAIN PHILOSOPHICAL ESSAYES, and other TRACTS by the Honorable ROBERT BOYLE: The Second edition, enlarged. London ”