The Triumphal Chariot of Antimony. 113 



Take one part, of finely pulverized 

 Antimony, and " pulverized salt-armo- 



niac,* so called because it comes from 

 Armenia ; mix these together, place 

 in a retort, and distil together, t On 

 the product of this distillation pour hot, 

 distilled (common) rain water, removing 

 thereby every salt and acrid taste. Then 

 the Antimony will be of a pure, brilliant, 

 and feathery white ; dry with subtle heat, 

 place in the circulatory vessel called 

 pelican, pour to it highly rectified spirit 

 of vitriol, and circulate till they are 

 properly amalgamated. J Then distil 



* The quantities of the two should be equal. 



tThe retort should be of the kind exhibited on page 

 114, consisting of A Furnace, P. Retort, C Receiver, D Tube, 

 between Receiver and Alembic E. F is a furnace which 

 sublimes by its moderate heat all that is in the Receiver into 

 Alembic E ; and so the substance which is distilled from the 

 Retort B is immediately sublimed by the fire of the furnace 

 F. This retort is useful in every kind of sublimation. 



JThis union must be so close that in distillation the 

 two shall rise together, otherwise you will lose both your 

 oil and your labour. Amalgamation in Alchemy is not 

 merely mixing two liquids : the union must be inseparable, 

 and the ingredients must really change and modify each 

 other. The union should be like that of male and female 

 seed, which produces a real organism, that is, something more 

 than a mere mixture of the two ingredients. Later on in 



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