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Salt, whofe auftere taft will very 

 much refemble that of Sloes,, or of 

 unripe Bullace. And this taft, with 

 fome little variety, I found in Gold 

 diffblved without any diftilled Li* 

 quour at all 3 and alfo^ if I much for- 

 get not, in Gold that by a peculiar 

 Menftruum I had volatilized. 



The laft Inftance I (hall give of 

 the imitation of Tafts, I found to 

 have been., for the main, known to 

 fome ingenious Ladies. But to make 

 the Experiment fucceed very well, 

 a due proportion is the principal Cir- 

 cumftance, which is wont to be neg- 

 Je&ed. I cannot readily call to mind 

 that which I found to fucceed beft 5 

 but the Trial may be indifferently 

 well made after fuch a manner as 

 this : 



Take a pint or a pound of Malaga 

 or Canary Sack , (for though French 

 and the like Wines may (erve the 

 turn, yet they are not fo proper j) 

 and put into it a drachm or two of 

 good odoriferous Orrice Roots, cut 

 into thin dices, and let them infufe • 



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