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The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing-World
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Duchess of Margaret Cavendish Newcastle
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After
all
this,
the
Empress
desired
the
Worm
men
to
give
her
a
true
Relation
how
frost
was
made
upon
the
Earth?
To
which
they
answered,
That
it
was
made
much
after
the
manner
and
description
of
the
Fish-
and
Bird-men,
concerning
the
Congelation
of
Water
into
Ice
and
Snow,
by
a
commixture
of
saline
and
acid
particles;
which
relation
added
a
great
light
to
the
Ape-men,
who
were
the
Chymists,
concerning
their
Chymical
principles,
Salt,
Sulphur,
and
Mercury.
But,
said
the
Empress,
if
it
be
so,
it
will
require
an
infinite
multitude
of
saline
particles
to
produce
such
a
great
quantity
of
Ice,
Frost
and
Snow:
besides,
said
she,
when
Snow,
Ice
and
Frost,
turn
again
into
their
former
principle,
I
would
fain
know
what
becomes
of
those
saline
particles?
But
neither
the
Worm-men,
nor
the
Fish-
and
Bird-men,
could
give
her
an
answer
to
it.
Then
the
Empress
enquired
of
them
the
reason,
Why
Springs
were
not
as
salt
as
the
Sea
is?
also,
why
some
did
ebb
and
flow?
To
which
it
was
answered,
That
the
ebbing
and
flowing
of
some
Springs,
was
caused
by
hollow
Caverns
within
the
Earth,
where
the
Seawater
crowding
thorow,
did
thrust
forward,
and
drew
backward
the
Spring-water,
according
to
its
own
way
of
ebbing
and
flowing;
but
others
said,
That
it
proceeded
from
a
small
proportion
of
saline
and
acid
particles,
which
the
Spring-water
imbibed
from
the
Earth;
and
although
it
was
not
so
much
as
to
be
perceived
by
the
sense
of
Taste;
yet
it
was
enough
to
cause
an
ebbing
and
flowing-motion.
And
as
for
the
Spring-
water
being
fresh,
they
gave,
according
to
their
Observation,
this
following
reason:
There
is,
said
they,
a
certain
heat
within
the
Bowels
of
the
Earth,
proceeding
from
its
swift
circular
motion,
upon
its
own
axe,
which
heat
distills
the
rarest
parts
of
the
Earth
into
a
fresh
and
insipid
water,
which
water
being
through
the
pores
of
the
Earth,
conveighed
into
a
place
where
it
may
break
forth
without
resistance
or
obstruction,
causes
Springs
and
Fountains;
and
these
distilled
Waters
within
the
Earth,
do
nourish
and
refresh
the
grosser
and
drier
parts
thereof.
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