Chap. 14. ^ Tredttfe ^/BODIES. 15$ 



ardentes. Thcfe will lofe their virtues merely by remaining 

 uncovered in the aire ; for fire doth not incorporate ftrongly 

 with water ; but, if it find means, railech it felf into the airc; as 

 we fee in the fmoke of boyling water which is nothing elfc but 

 little bodies of fire, that cntring into the water ,do rarifie fbme 

 parts of it; but have no inclination to flay there,and therefore as 

 faft as they can get out, they fly away ; but the humide ports of 

 the water, which they have rarified( being of a ftickingnaturc^ 

 do joyn them/elves unto them, and afccnd in the airc as high as 

 the fiery atomes have frrength to carry them : which whenic 

 faileth them that fmoke rallcth down in a dew, and fo be- 

 cometh water again as it was. All which one may canlydi- 

 fcern in a glafle-verTell of water fetover die fire ; in which one 

 may obfcrve the fire come in at the bottome,and prcfently fwim 

 up to the top like a link bubble, and immediately rife from 

 thence in fmoke' and that will at laft convert it felf into drops 

 and fettle upon fbme folid fubftance thereabouts.. 



Ofthefe fiery fpirits,fome are to fubtile,as of themselves they 

 vrill vanifh, ami leave no refidue of a body behind them ; and 

 Alchymifts profefle to make them Jo etheriall and volatUe,thac 

 being poured out of a glaflfe from fome reafonable height, they 

 fhall never reach the ground : but that before they come thtthcr. 

 they will be fo rarified by that little motion, as they fiiall grow 

 invifible like tl^e aire, and difperting thcmfelves all about in ic> 

 they will fill the chamber with the ftnell of that body which 

 can no longer be feen. 



The laft exce(Te in watery bodics,mufl: be of water it felf, 15. 

 W* is,when fo little a proportion of any of the other is mtnqled ofthofcbed-'es, 



... .. -it c \ f ' i -./ whrre water r$ 



with it, as is hardly perceptible: out or this compohtion do anic ; n excefft, icx- 



all thofe feverall forrs ofruiccs or liquors, which \\c commonly ; C n l:r' n " b 4 0tfl 



- i i -11 t i -r^t tntftwi,*M 



call waters: which by their mixture with the other three Elc- the prr.-tomi- 



ments, have peculiar properties beyond fimple Elementall wa- nailt Elstwiaf ' 

 ter. The generall qualitie wlicreof, weflaall not nteci any ftnr- 

 ther to exprefle, becaufe by what we hare already laid of water 1 6". 

 rn common, they are fufficiencly known. ^?h f c t r h c 0^ ^ a S I " - 



In our next furvey,we wil take earth for our ground to work lone is the ba- 

 upon.,as hitherto we have done watcrtw*" if in any body,k be in predominallt^* 

 the utmott excelTe of it beyond all the other three;;hen rocks atnl "j ii.- of fr 

 ftones will grow due of it ; whofc drincftc and hardnsile may "' ' 



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