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retains the old word nitre and fait peter conjointly with that of 

 nitrat oi potajb, fee his Treatife of Chymiftry, vol. I. p. 79 and 

 232, French) and yet they difapprove of my retaining a few 

 of the antient denominations that were as well known to all 

 chymifls as the names /o;?/ or glafs in the language of common 

 life, fuch as G/auber, Epjom and Sylvian (rejecting only the term 

 fait ufually tacked to them -, but evidently fuperfluous) alfo fele- 

 nite, gypfum, borax and alum, thefe I retain for two reafons, 

 firft, becaufe they exprefs their refpedive objedls by a Jingk 

 name, which appears to me a confiderable advantage, and fe- 

 condly, becaufe thofe names continually occur in all treatifes 

 of chymiftry publiflied before the year 179c, and in many 

 firice, and confdquently muft be known by all who wifli to un- 

 derdand thero. 



j^&^vEAu and the French School in general rejedl the names 

 of. Inventors " as having no conformity either generic or indi^- 

 '■ vidual with things," and for the fame reafon they fhould 

 rejedl the names Alexandria znd Conjlantinople derived from the 

 founders, and in general, by the fame rule, all names of places 

 ihould be changed for fuch as would exprefs their fituation. 

 Is it nor therefore evident that when the fignification of names 

 is already fixed and generally known, that they fhould be re- 

 tained*, 



* 19 Rox. p. 374. 



