The supplement to a small treatise called Salt-water sweetned shewing the great advantages both by sea and land, of sea-water made fresh. Together with the Honourable Mr. Boyle's letter, and the approbation of the Colledge of Physicians, of the wholsomness of this water. And also the conditions on which the patentees and others concern'd, do intend to contract with such as shall please to deal with them for the use of his invention.

Title

The supplement to a small treatise called Salt-water sweetned shewing the great advantages both by sea and land, of sea-water made fresh. Together with the Honourable Mr. Boyle's letter, and the approbation of the Colledge of Physicians, of the wholsomness of this water. And also the conditions on which the patentees and others concern'd, do intend to contract with such as shall please to deal with them for the use of his invention.

Author

Fitzgerald, R. (Robert)

Publication

London :: Printed by John Harefinch in Mountague-Court ...,

[1684]

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Subject terms

Seawater -- Distillation -- Early works to 1800.

Saline water conversion -- Early works to 1800.

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"The supplement to a small treatise called Salt-water sweetned shewing the great advantages both by sea and land, of sea-water made fresh. Together with the Honourable Mr. Boyle's letter, and the approbation of the Colledge of Physicians, of the wholsomness of this water. And also the conditions on which the patentees and others concern'd, do intend to contract with such as shall please to deal with them for the use of his invention." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A39600.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 27, 2025. content_copy

Contents

• title page
• TO THE KING'S Most Excellent Majesty.
• The fore-going Dedication, Humbly of∣fered to His Majesty, having disco∣vered the Intention of this Underta∣king; it remains now to satisfie all Reasonable Scruples which have been raised concerning the Wholesomness and Cheapness of Water thus prepa∣red.
  • The Queries and Answers follow.
  • The Approbation of the Colledge of Phy∣sicians, and other Doctors of Physick, Practising in and about London.
  • The Benefits and Advantages of Sea-Water made Fresh.
  • A LETTER of Mr. BOYLE's to the Learned Dr. JOHN BEALE, Fellow of the Royal So∣ciety, concerning Fresh-water made out of Sea-water: Printed at the desire of the Patentees.
• addendum
  • An ABSTRACT out of the Gazette, Numb. 1676.
  • A Copy of a Letter from Captain Macdonnel, from aboard his Majesties Ship the Grey∣hound, near the Coast of Spain, to one of the Patentees of Sea-Water.
• advice
  • White-Hall, Feb. 28.
• The Conditions upon which the Patentees for making Salt or Brackish Water Fresh and Wholsom, do intend to con∣clude with such Persons that shall please to agree with them for the Ʋse of this Invention either by Sea or Land.
• July 2. 1684.