1?4 An Account of some Experiments on the 



100 grains of bismuth heated with sulphvir afforded 122*3 

 grains oF salphuret. Hence bismuth being as 67*5, the 

 sulphvir is to the chlorine as 1508 to 342. 



In the following table, the proportions are collected in 

 which chlorine, sulphur, and oxygen combine with several 

 metals ; the numbers representing the metals are -kept con- 

 stantly the same, for the greater facility of comparison. 



7. On the Action of muriatic Acid on some Combinations of 

 Cklorine and MtLah. 



Sir Humphry Davy has pointed out in a great variety of 

 instances, the exisieuce of an an:dogy between chlorine and 

 oxvgen. He has sho\vn that the former, united with cer- 

 tain inflammables, conslimics, like the latter, acid com- 

 pounds ; and combined wiih meMls, as it has already bt'ca 

 observed, sul)siances similar in many respects to metallic 

 oxides. ... 



I have kept this analogy in view in iny inquiries, and 



directed 



