the P yr iTEs. 373 



IX. Cancparius § pretends to have feen with his 

 own eyes, rubbed marcafite, or pyrites changed, 

 by pouring on vinegar, to quickfilver ; which well 

 agrees with what I adduced above from Boyle, at 

 the clofe of chap. XIII. 



X. Pomet was allured, a certain abbot had, from 

 a certain marcafkical vitriol-yielding pyrites, to be 

 found in the clay-earth near Pafii, a mile from 

 Paris, prepared his univtrfale. 



XI. That pyrites is of a mercurial nature, Al- 

 bertus affirms may be concluded from its giving 

 to copper a white colour ||. 



XII. Mathefius mentions a marcafite holding 

 quickfilver and an arfenicore (cadmia) from which, 

 upon ftriking, there fquirted out quickfilver §§. 



XIII. How to draw quickfilver from vitriol, fee 



Caneparius. ff. 



XIV. Calx of lead digefted with fal ammoniac, 

 fait of tartar, and dale urine, and at length di- 

 flilled, yields an arfenical odour, nay, at lad, a 

 beautiful phofphorus. 



XV. I have had from Neu fol, in Hungary, a white 

 fait, under the appellation of a white vitriol, there 

 called Jirep, of an oblong, tender, cryftaJline form, 



XVI. The Radberg-bath comes from a pyrites 

 extremely pure, above all other groove- pyrites, in 

 iron vitriol. 



XVII. In Sweden, in the large copper-groove at 

 Fahlun, there was found, as Leyel ** relates, a 

 man's body, which had lain there for forty years at 



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