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ROSICRUCIAN APOLOGISTS: JOHN HEYDON. 377
in the midst of the seas, and some bayes upon the shore,
for works wherein are required the aire and vapour of the
sea. We have likewise violent streams and cataracts which
serve us for many motions, and engines for multiplying and
enforcing winds to set on going divers other motions.
" We have a number of artificiall wells and fountaines, in
imitation of the natural sources ; also baths tincted upon
vitrioll, sulphur, steell, brasse, lead, nitre, and other mine-
rals. Again, we have little wells for infusion of many
things, where the waters take the vertue quicker and better
than in vessels or basines ; and amongst them we have
water which we call water of Paradise, being, by that we
do to it, made very soveraign for health and prolongation
of life.
" We have also great and spacious houses, where we imi-
tate and demonstrate meteors as snow, hail, raine, some
artificiall raines of bodies and not of water, thunders, light-
nings ; also generation of bodies in the aire as frogs, flies,
and divers others.
" We have certain chambers, which we call Chambers of
Health, where we qualify the aire as we think good and
proper for the cure of divers diseases and preservation of
health.
" We have also faire and large baths, of severall mixtures,
for the cure of diseases and the restoring of man's body
from arefaction, and others for the confirming of it in
strength of sinews, vitall parts, and the very juyce and
substance of the body.
" We have also large and various orchards (see the epistle
to the '
Harmony of the World ') and gardens (wherein we
do not so much respect beauty as variety of ground and
soyle, proper for diverse trees and herbs), some very spa-