When near the buildings I met a white man, in such an unexpected elegance of get–up that in the first moment I took him for a sort of vision.

Glory be to God, all sublunary coastings will soon be over. Yet a little while, and we shall get into an eternal harbour.

Secondly, The branches of Plants have been us'd in religious Purgations or Expiations. In the Moſaical Law there was one general kind of Sacrifice commanded for Purgation, which conſiſted of an Heifer ſacrificed and burnt to Aſhes; with which, and ſpring water, a Lee was made to ſerve for many ſorts of Purgations.

A sponge soaks up water; the skin soaks in moisture.