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SECT. CCLXXXIV. 



1. Saline extraneous bodies, or fuch as are pe- 

 netrated by mineral falts, Corpora peregrina 

 infalita. Lcrvce injalittf. 

 A. With the vitriol of iron, Vitriolo martis 

 infalita. 



1. Animals. * 



a. Human bodies have been twice found 

 in the mine at Falun in Dalarne ; the 

 laft was kept a good many years in a 

 glafs cafe, but began at laft to moulder 

 and fall to pieces. 



2. Vegetables. 



a. Tiirf, and 



b. Roots of trees. 



Thefe are found in water ftrongly 

 impregnated with vitriol •, for inftance, 

 in the moor at Ofterfiifberget in Da- 

 larne. They do not burn with a flame, 

 but only like a coal in a ftrong fire •, 

 neither do they decay in the air. 



SECT. CCLXXXV. 



3. Extraneous bodies penetrated by mineral in- 

 flammable fuKftances, or mineral phlogifton, 

 Corpora peregrin a phlogiflis miner ah bus im- 

 pregnata. 



A. Penetrated by the fubftance of pit-coals, 

 Lithantrace impregnata. 

 1. Vegetables, which commonly have been 

 woods, or appertaining to them. 

 a. .bully faturated. Gagas. Jet, 



S 4 The 



