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rregulai* particles appeared coagulated. But when I breathed upon 

 them two or three times they again diflolved mto a tranfparent 

 liquor. 



I have mentioned, as my opinion, that there is no difference be- 

 tween ■white and black Pepper, except that the white is black Pep- 

 per ftripped of its Ikin. And, to prove this by experiment, I took 

 half a pound, or eight ounces, of black Pepper, which, in about 

 three quarters of an hour, I lli'ipped of all the (hells or hulks, and 

 was thereby confirmed in my opinion, for this Pepper might have been 

 fold for "white Pepper. From whence it appeared to me that white 

 Pepper is better than black, not only becaufe it is largeft and ripeft, 

 but alfo becaufe there is little virtue in the hulks or Ihells of black 

 Pepper, and alfo becaufe among the black there are found many 

 parts which may be taken for grains of Pepper, when, in facft, they 

 are only unripe grains, or only hulks of Pepper, When I had thus 

 converted my black Pepper into white, I weighed it again, and 

 found I had not fo much as five ounces, fo that out of eight ounces 

 I had loll more than three, though I mull confefs I had not been 

 very careful in the operation. 





