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though one would expeft a great 

 Cognation between the particles of 

 Fire adhering to Quick- Lime , and 

 thofe of high rectified Spirit of 

 Wine ^ which is of fo igneous a na- 

 ture 5 as to be totally inflammable $ 

 yet I have not found., that the afFu- 

 fion of Aikaol of Wine upon 

 Quick-Lime , would produce any 

 fenfible Incalefcence , or any vifible 

 diffolution or diffipation of the Lime, 

 as common Water would have done* 

 though it feemed to be greedily e- 

 nough foaked in by the lumps of 

 "Lime. And I further tried^ that, if 

 on this Lime fo drenched I poured 

 cold water, there infued no manifeft 

 Heat , nor did I fo much as find the 

 lump (welled , and thereby broken, 

 till fome hours after? which feems 

 to argue 5 that the Texture of the 

 Lime was fuch^ as to admit the par- 

 ticles of the Spirit of Wine into 

 fome of its pores , which were ei- 

 ther larger or more congruous, with- 

 out admitting it into the moft nu- 

 merous oneSj whereinto the Liquor 



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