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An ABSTRACT out of the Gazette, Numb. 1676.
HIS Majesty was pleas'd to Command the Ho∣nourable Mr. Boyle to attend Him,* 1.1 to give His Majesty an Ocular Proof of the Nicety of his way of examining the freshness and saltness of Water, and to apply it to the Sea-Water, prepar'd according to the Patentees Invention; which being done before his Majesty, his Royal Highness, and the Duke of Grafton, several Persons of Quality being also present, it was made apparent, by a certain prepar'd Liquid which Mr. Boyle had brought with him, that a Discovery could be made if there were so much as a thousandth part of Salt in a pro∣pos'd Water: By which Tryal His Majesty, finding that the Prepar'd Sea-Water, for which he has granted his Royal Patent, was at least as free from Salt as the best Waters used in this Town: received such Satisfaction as to the wholsomness of the said Water, that He was pleased to declare his Royal Intentions both to encourage the said Invention, and to have the said Water made use of in his seve∣ral Maritime Garrisons, which Nature has not furnished with wholsom Water.