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PHILOSOPHICAL
TRANSACTIONS.
Februar. 17. 1669/70.
The Contents.
A Narrative of the Conjunction of the Ocean and the Mediterranean, by a Channel, in France, Some Considerations concerning the Scarborough-Spaw, together with a short Accompt of a Salt-Spring in Somersetshire; and of a Medical Spring in Dorsetshire. The Causes of Mineral Springs further inquired into; and the strange and secret Changes of Liquors examined. Instances, Hints, and Applications, relating to a main point sollicited in the Preface to this 5th Year, concerning the Use, that may he made Vaults, deep Wells, and Cold Conservatories.
A Narrative
of the Conjuction of the two Seas, the Ocean and the Mediterranean, by a Channel, cut out through Languedoc in France, by the Authority of the Most Christian King LOUYS XIV, and the Contrivance and Management of Monsieur Riquet: Englished by the Publisher our of the French, lately sent to the same from Paris, together with the printed Mapp af the said Channel here contracted, and explained.
IT is not now, than the Conjunction or Communication of the Seas hath been though possible. In hath been always agreed upon, that it was so, and that many ways, even within the bounds of France, without any dependence on or participation with the neighbouring Contrys thereof. The thing hathalso
