The Hot, Dry, Aromatic, Cordial and friendly to the Brain, may be qualify’d by the Cold and Moist:  The Bitter and Stomachical, with the Sub-acid and gentler Herbs:  The Mordicant and pungent, and such as repress or discuss Flatulency (revive the Spirits, and aid Concoction;) with such as abate, and take off the keenness, mollify and reconcile the more harsh and churlish:  The mild and insipid, animated with piquant and brisk:  The Astringent and Binders, with such as are Laxative and Deobstruct:  The over-sluggish, raw, and unactive, with those that are Eupeptic, and promote Concoction:  There are Pectorals for the Breast and Bowels.  Those of middle Nature, according as they appear to be more or less Specific; and as their Characters (tho’ briefly) are describ’d in our foregoing Catalogue:  For notwithstanding it seem in general, that raw Sallets and Herbs have experimentally been found to be the most soveraign Diet in that Endemial (and indeed with us, Epidemical and almost universal) Contagion the Scorbute, to which we of this Nation, and most other Ilanders are obnoxious; yet, since the Nasturtia are singly, and alone as it were, the most effectual, and powerful Agents in conquering and expugning that cruel Enemy; it were enough to give the Sallet-Dresser direction how to choose, mingle, and proportion his Ingredients; as well as to shew what Remedies there are contain’d in our Magazine of Sallet-Plants upon all Occasions, rightly marshal’d and skilfully apply’d.  So as (with our [52]sweet Cowley)

  If thro’ the strong and beauteous Fence
  Of Temperance and Innocence,
  And wholsome Labours, and a quiet Mind,
    Diseases passage find;
    They must not think here to assail
  A Land unarm’d, or without Guard,
  They must fight for it, and dispute it hard,
    Before they can prevail;
  Scarce any Plant is used here,
  Which ’gainst some Aile a Weapon does not bear.

We have said how necessary it is, that in the Composure of a Sallet, every Plant should come in to bear its part, without being over-power’d by some Herb of a stronger Taste, so as to endanger the native Sapor and vertue of the rest; but fall into their places, like the Notes in Music, in which there should be nothing harsh or grating:  And tho’ admitting some Discords (to distinguish and illustrate the rest) striking in the more sprightly, and sometimes gentler Notes, reconcile all Dissonancies, and melt them into an agreeable Composition.  Thus the Comical Master-Cook, introduc’d by Damoxenus, when asked [Greek:  pos esin autois onmphonia]; What Harmony there was in Meats?  The very same (says he) that a Diatessaron, Diapente, and Diapason have one to another in a Consort of Music:  And that there was as great care requir’d, not to mingle [53]_Sapores minime consentientes_, jarring and repugnant Tastes; looking upon him as a lamentable Ignorant, who should be no better vers’d in Democritus.  The whole Scene is very diverting, as Athenaeus presents it; and to the same sense Macrobius, Saturn. lib. I. cap. I. In short, the main Skill of the Artist lies in this: