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arguments, for such an assertion. The Irish comes in with us, (the Welsh,) 

 and is a dialect of the old Latin, as the British is of the Greek. : but the Gothic 

 or Teutonic, though it has also much affinity with us, must needs make a band 

 apart. 



Remarks concerning Factitious Salts, drawn from a Discourse written by Sig. 



Francisco Redi. N° 243, p. 28 1 . , 

 The method of extracting the factitious salts here mentioned was by burning 

 the vegetables experimented on to ashes, afterwards lixiviating the said ashes, 

 then filtrating the lixivium, and lastly, evaporating and crystallizing. Of this 

 paper it is only necessary to reprint the tables, showing the relative quantities of 

 ashes and salts obtained from various vegetables. 



Pounds. Vegetables. 



100 Of dried flowers of oranges 



800 Of gourds new gathered 

 which dried in the oven 

 were 36"ft 



400 Red onions being (720) 

 roasted, the coals turned 

 to l6ft lo the coals new 

 added 45 of sulphur. . . . 



150 Eyebright fresh, and after- 

 wards stilled and burnt 



120 Distilled roses 



100 Of maidenhair 



150 Roots of black hellebore, 

 which dried came to 5oft 



150 Roots of wh'te hellebore 

 fresh, which dried came 



to50fc 



96 Roots dried and burnt of 



fresh esula 



30 Roots of liquorice 



20 Pellitory 



100 Green endive 



Ashes. Salts. 



ft 3 5 5 5 

 4 6 5 



4 10 



160 22 



5 

 4 1 

 .9 



600 10 



2 4 



3 



2 



10 



2 



2 



1 4 

 6 



2 



Pounds. Vegetables. 



90 Green bindweed 



2000 Leaves of laurel 



500 Leaves of laurel 



1000 Water melons well ripe, 

 the seeds being taken . . 



2400 Cucumbers 



300 Wood of ivy 



50 Scorzonera dried 



300 Pine apples, the nuts taken 



out 



150 Mugwort dried 



1 30 Leaves of Cyprus 



1 Pcf 1 of pomegranates dried 



2 Sassafras 



12 Lignum sanctum 



4 Yellow Sanders 



4 Black pepper 



30 Ginger 



12 Turbith 



Wood of fir 



Scopae 



Scopae 



Ashes. 



lb 5 5 



1 



33 4 



600 



25 1 



18 



900 



8 



3 



8 



6 



8 







6 



1 4 



2 4 



7 

 

 



16 1 

 16 I 



Salts. 



5 5 



2 

 



10 



9 























































3 O 



4 



6 



A Table of the Ashes which 100 lb. give. 



[This and the following table exhibit the differences between the ashes, after the rate of 100 ft of 

 vegetables, and between the salts, after the rate of 1 ft of ashes, set down according to the order of 

 the excesses.] 



ft 



Red onions 



Gourds 



Cucumbers 



Pine nut-shells 1 



Yellow Sanders 1 



Bindweeds 1 



ft 



Laurel leaves 1 



Roots of white hellebore 1 



Other leaves of laurel 1 



Endive 2 



Wheat flour 2 



Water melons 2 



