Note 3133 — BOOK XXXI. REMEDIES DERIVED FROM THE AQUATIC PRODUCTIONS.
John Bostock translation
“The water, evaporating, would leave the salt behind, but mixed with charcoal, ashes, earth, and alkaline salts; consequently it must have been moist, or at any rate nauseous, if not refined by a new solution.”—Beckmann’s Hist. Inv. Vol. II. p. 493. Bohn’s Ed.