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 1 2|       touch proper consists of earth, and the faculty of taste
 2 4|    evidently exist also in the earth. Hence many of the old natural
 3 4|    qualities like those of the earth through which it flows,
 4 4| springs, for salt is a form of earth. Hence also when liquids
 5 4|      of Fire, as Dryness is of Earth, according to what has been
 6 4|      on the elements. Fire and Earth, therefore, taken absolutely
 7 5|      elements, viz. Fire, Air, Earth, Water, are inodorous, because
 8 5|        allied to ["elemental"] earth more nearly than salt. Again,
 9 5|         which is a compound of Earth and Air, as the essence
10 5|  remarked, composed of Air and Earth. The former when condensed
11 5|        a particular species of earth. Now, it is unlikely that
12 6|        the eye, or reaches the Earth. This might plausibly seem
13 7|       which one sees the whole earth by seeing some given part