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EXPER* VIII. 



By the bare addition of a Body almofl 

 inodorous^ and not well fented^ to 

 give a pie af ant and Aromaticl^fmeU 

 to Spirit of Wine* 



THis we have feveral times done D 

 by the ways elfewhere related 

 for another fcope, the fumm of which, 

 as far as it needs be mentioned in 

 this place, is this. 



We took good Oil of blew Vitriol 

 (that was brought from DantzicJ^y) 

 though the very common will ferve 

 well-, and having put to it, by de- 

 grees, an equal weight of Spirit of 

 Wine totally inflammable, we dige- 

 fted them together, for two, three* 

 or four weeks , ( fometimes much 

 longer, and then with better fuccefsj) 

 from which, when we came to diftill 

 the mixture, we had a very fragrant 

 Spirit, which was fometimes fo fub- 

 tile, that, though diftilled in a tall 

 drlafs with a gentle Heat, it would 



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