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to bre^k the Veflel) it will afford, 

 among other things, a copious red 

 Spirit, which, being ilowly re&ified, 

 will lofe its colour, and come over 

 clear* The Caput Alottuum of the 

 Sugar, which I have more than once 

 had of an odd Contexture, may be 

 found either almoft or altogether 

 infipid. And though the Spirit will 

 be of a very penetrant taft, yet it will 

 be very far from any kind of fweet- 

 nefs§ and though that liquour be 

 thought to be homogeneous, and to 

 be one of the Principles of the ana- 

 lized Sugar, yet (as I have elfewhere 

 (hewn} I found it to be a mixture 

 of two Spirits 3 with the one of 

 which, befides bodies of a lefs clofe 

 Texture, I diflblved (even in the 

 cold) crude Copper, as was eafie to 

 be feen by th^deep and lovely co- 

 lour of the folution. And to thefe 

 four Spirits, afforded by Sugar it 

 felf, we have reftored a kind of Sac- 

 charine fweetnefs-j by compounding 

 them with the particles of fo infipid 

 a body as Minium j^part of which 

 B they 



