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limate , which was dark coloured 

 though both the Antimony and Sa! 

 Armoniac, itconfifted of, had b I 

 long expofed to the aftion of a Sub- 

 liming Heat 5 yet the water was 

 thereby fptedily and notably cool- 

 ed , infomuch 5 that the Spirit of 

 Wine in the Weather-glafs haftily 

 defcended 5 and continued to (ink, 

 till by our guefs it had fallen not 

 much fhort of three inches. Of 

 thefe Thtinowena, the Etiology, as 

 fome Moderns call the Theory, 

 which propofesthe Caufes of things, 

 is more eafie to be found by a little 

 confideration , than to be made out 

 in few words. 



We made alfo an Experiment like 

 that above recked > by fubliming 

 three ounces a piece of Minium and 

 Sal Armoniacs in which Trial we 

 founds that though in the Caput mot- 

 tnum> the Salt had notably wrought 

 upon the Calx of Lead , and was in 

 part aflbciated with it ^ as appeared 

 by the whitenefs of the faid Caput 

 moTtuum^ by its fweetilh Tafte, and 



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