_Aristotle_ with better reason refers it to the grosse and unctuous saltnesse which is therewith mingled. Salt being fat and unctuous, which is the cause that salt water doth not so easily quench fire, as fresh water. But this saltnesse is equall throughout all the sea. _Plinie_ himself _lib._ 19. _ch._ 11. specifies, Certain herbes which salt waters do much profit. These are secrets of Nature to which mans discourse can hardly arrive. For herbs by a providence thereof may well suck and draw from salt water, a fresh or sweet substance wherewith they are procreated and nourished as the fishes. But this is not our principall drift: we have here endeavoured to shew that Salt is not unfruitfull, but the cause of fertility provoking venereall appetite, whence _Venus_ is said to be begotten of the sea; if men give salt unto animalls to heat them the more, and make them eat salt as _Plutarch_ puts it in his 3. queston of Naturall causes. And wee see by experience, that in ships laden with salt, rats and mice, are sooner engendred then in others; this which must so much the more cry down salt in regard of holy things, from whence all mutability and lubricity must be bannished; but salt is in the number of things that are applyed to the good, and to the bad part. Of the good we have heretofore alledged many places. Of the bad for the sterility, _Gen._ 14. 3. All shall assemble themselves in the wild valley which is now the sea of salt. And in the 19. chap. 26. as also in the 10. of _Wisdome_, v. 7. of _Lots_ wife, who for her incredulity and disobeying the Angels voice, she was turned into a pillar of salt: And _Judges_ 9. 45. the habitations of Rebells and Traitors were razed and sowed with salt. And in the 2 of _Zephaniah_ v. 9. _Moab_ shall be as _Sodome_, a desolation of nettles, and thistles and heaps of salt.