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fame with that of common water; nor 

 did I find many air bubbles in it, when placed 

 in the exhaufted receiver, which I expend 

 to have found ; but when referved in open 

 viols, it ftinks fooner than common water; 

 an argument that it is not pure water, but has 

 fome heterogeneous mixtures with it. 



I put alfo a large Sun-flower full blown, 

 and as it was growing, into the head of a 

 glafs-ftill, and put its ronrum into a bottle 

 by which means there diuiilcd a good quan- 

 tity of liquor into the bottle. It will be 

 very eafy in the fame manner to collect the 

 perforations of fvvect fecnted Flowers , tho' 

 the liquor will not long retain its grateful 

 odor, but ftink. in few days. 



This experiment would be very proper 

 to begin the learned Boerhaave's clear and 

 very rational chymical procetTcs with, as be- 

 ing a degree more fimple than his firft pro- 

 cefs, the diftillation in a cold {till : For this 

 is undiQurbed nature's own method of diftil- 

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Experiment XVIII. 



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