tually act upon each others ſubject. Now by this meanes there is a conception made in the water, which now begins to be turgid, puffed up, and troubled, as alſo to be groſſer, and more ſlimie, untill cut of the ſpermatick veſſels the ſpermes be caſt upward, in which ſpermes after a while appear black ſpeckes, which are the ſeed of the Frogs, and by the heat of the ſun, are in a ſhort time turned into the fame; by which it appears there are diſſimilary parts in water.
2. Stones are produced out of water that hath a mucilaginous Mercury, which the Salt, with which it alſo abounds, fixeth into ſtones. This you may ſee cleared by putting ſtones into water, for they will after a time contract a mucilaginous ſlimie matter, which being taken out of the water and ſet in the fun becomes to be of a ſtony nature. And whence come thoſe ſtones, gravell and fand which we ſce in ſprings? they are not waſhed down out of the mountains and hils (as ſome think) from whence the waters ſpring, neither were they in the earth before the ſprings brake forth, (as ſome imagine) and now appear by washing away of the earth from them; for if you dig round about the ſprings, even beyond the heads of them, you ſhall find no ſtones at all in the earth, only in the veins thereof through which the water runs ; Now the reaſon of the ſmallneſſe of theſe ſtones is the continuall motion of the Water, which hinders them from being united into a continued bigneſſe. I ſhall make a further confirmation of this in the artificiall proceſſe of maniſeſting the heterogeneity of water. I ſhall here only adde the aſſertion of Helmont, ſaying that with his Altaheſt all ſtones, and indeed all things may be turned into water: If ſo then you know what the Maxime is, viz. All things may be reſolved a into that from whence they had their beginning.
3. Vegetables are produced out of water, as you may clearly ſee by the waters ſending forth plants that have no roots fixed in the bottome; of which ſort is the hearb called Duck-weed, which putteth forth a little ſtring into the water, which is as it were the root thereof. For the confirmation of this, that this hearb may be produced out of meere
