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(Vol. I. p. 22, seq., where is much curious learning on the subject,) Sprengol, and others, have proved from Dioscor. v. 110, compard with Plin. xxxiii. S, s. 41, § 12, that distillation was not unknown to the ancients. A passage of St Augustine, (De Gen. ad litt. imperf. 14, § 47), which gives not only a more particular description of a still, but also a correct account of the evaporation of the sea, and of the formation of clouds, rain, and springs, has, I believe, escaped notice: ""

