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is a middle way, and that is by new compounds, if 

 the ways of incorporating were well known. 



What incorporation or imbibition metals will re 

 ceive from vegetables, without being dissolved in 

 their substance : as when the armourers make their 

 steel more tough and pliant, by aspersion of water 

 or juice of herbs ; when gold being grown some 

 what churlish by recovering, is made more pliant 

 by throwing in shreds of tanned leather., or by leather 

 oiled. 



Note, that in these and the like shews of imbibi 

 tion, it were good to try by the weights, whether 

 the weight be increased, or no ; for if it be not, it is 

 to be doubted that there is no imbibition of substance, 

 but only that the application of that other body doth 

 dispose and invite the metal to another posture of 

 parts, than of itself it would have taken. 



After the incorporation of metals by simple colli- 

 quefaction,, for the better discovery of the nature 

 and consents and dissents of metals, it would be 

 likewise tried by incorporating of their dissolutions. 

 What metals being dissolved in strong waters will 

 incorporate well together, and what not ? Which 

 is to be inquired particularly, as it was in collique- 

 factions. 



There is to be observed in those dissolutions which 

 will not easily incorporate, what the effects are : as 

 the bullition ; the precipitation to the bottom ; the 

 ejaculation towards the top ; the suspension in the 

 midst ; and the like. 



Note, that the dissents of the menstrual or strong 



