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St. Augustine on Distillation.
Mangetus (Vol. I. p. 22, seq., where is much curious learning on the subject,) Sprengol, and others, have proved from Dioscor. v. 110, compard with Plin. xxxiii. S, s. 41, § 12, that distillation was not unknown to the ancients. A passage of St Augustine, (De Gen. ad litt. imperf. 14, § 47), which gives not only a more particular description of a still, but also a correct account of the evaporation of the sea, and of the formation of clouds, rain, and springs, has, I believe, escaped notice: "Nam neque..."
