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intire Rock standing in the middle of the Sea.
S
r. Ionas more vndertooke to Di
scour
se him further
concerning his other obseruations & to giue the
Society an account thereof.
m
r. Hooke Read ^ /part of/ a Di
scour
se sent him from m
r. Iames Young
of Plimmouth conteining a breif De
scription of the Island
of mayo and of the bay in that Island from w
ch.
they fecht the salt. together w
th. his ob
seruations of
a well Dugg in the sand for the procuring fresh water
which though incompa
ssed w
th the sea almo
st afforded
notw
thstanding good store of water pretty fresh
concerning the producing of
water fre
sh water this way
viz
t. by the straining of salt water through the sand
the vice president very much Doubted, as of a thing
hitherto not known. nor was there yet known any
other way of filtration that would make a separation
of fre
sh water from salt water.
D
r. whi
stler obserued that all ouer Holland Zealand
and We
st Frei
sland where the country Lay Lower
then the Sea, there could be noe springs found
by Digging.
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