5° Vegetable Staticks. 



fame with that of common water 5 nor 

 did I find many air bubbles in it, when placed 

 in the exhaufted receiver, which I expe&ed 

 to have found 5 but when referved in open 

 viols, it {links fooner than common water 5 

 an argument that it is not pure water, but has 

 fome heterogeneous mixtures with it. 



I put alfo a large Sun-flower full blown, 

 and as it was growing, into the head of a 

 glafs-ftill, and put its roftrum into a bottle, 

 by which means there diftilled a good quan- 

 tity of liquor into the bottle. It will be 

 very eafy in the fame manner to coiled): the 

 perfpirations of fweetfcented Flowers, tho' 

 the liquor will not long retain its grateful 

 odor, but ftink in few days. 



This experiment would be very proper 

 to beg:in the learned Boerhaaves clear and 

 very rational chymical proceffes with, as be- 

 ing a degree more fimple than his firft pro- 

 cefs , the diftillation in a cold ftill : For this 

 is undifturbed nature s own method of diftil- 

 ln 



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Experiment XVIIL 



In order to find out what flores of moi- 



fture 



