Some Protestant Reformers retained the sacrament as sign but shorn of Canonical accretions. Bridge presented Purcell's "Te Deum" "purged of the 18th century accretions which had overlaid it". The Nuristani/Kafir people practiced a form of ancient Hinduism, infused with accretions developed locally. Restoration continued until 1948, allowing some accretions from the 19th century to be removed. Bacon made it clear he was looking for more than "a botany" with discursive accretions. Stromatolites are similar but consist of layered accretions. He occasionally resorted to wetting the bread to remove the more stubborn accretions. The Christian accretions have already disappeared in the 16th century. The pledge was repaid when the debt was settled, along with any accretions. New forest accretions is often conspicuously dominated by keora ("Sonneratia apetala") and tidal forests. She touches on all the essentials, including even more modern accretions. Neither alleged that there had been any change in this line by accretions. Building on past knowledge, normal science advances by accretions in a knowledge base. It thus increased in popularity as the other accretions to the story reduced.