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For it implies, that every Quality in 

 a compounded body muft arife from 

 fomeoneofthe tria prima j whereas 

 experience allures us^ that bodies 

 may, by Composition^ obtain Quali- 

 lies, that were not to be found in any 

 of the feparate Ingredients. As we 

 fee in painting, that though blew and 

 yellow be neither of them green, yet 

 their mixture will be fo. And though 

 no fingle Sound will make an ottave 

 or diapafon 5 yet two founds, whofe 

 proportion is double, will have an 

 eighth. And Tinn and Copper mel- 

 ted and mingled together in a due 

 proportion, will make a bell-metal far 

 more fonorous than either of them 

 was before. Tis obvious enough 

 for Chymifts themfelves to obferve, 

 that., though Lead be an infipid body, 

 and Spirit of Vinegar a very (harp 

 one, ,yet Saccharum Saturni^ that is 

 compounded out of thefe two, has 

 a fweetnefs that makes it not ill de* 

 ferve its name. 



But this ill-grounded Suppofition 

 of the Chymifts, is extended farther 



in 



