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pofition, wherein it finds the metal to 

 be tranfmuted,and the changes it pro* 

 duces in the conftituentTexture of it* 

 Thus it brings Quick*fi!ver to befixr 5 

 which it was not beforehand deprives 

 it of the Fluidity which it had before j 

 it brings Silver to be indiffolvable in 

 Aquafortis^ which readily diffolved 

 it before^ and diffoluble in Aqua Re* 

 ^which before would not touch itj 

 and which is very confide rable to our 

 prefent purppfe, whereas it makes 

 Iron much more fufible than Mars it 

 makes Lead much left fufible than 

 w'hileft it retained its priftine faring 

 fince Saturn melts ere it come to ig- 

 nition., which Gold requires to bring 

 it to fufion. But this is propofed 

 only as an Argument ad hoMinem y \\\\ 

 the Truth of the tranfmutation of 

 metals into Gold, by way of projecti- 

 on j be fufficiently proved, and the 

 circumftances and phenomena of \t 

 particularly declared. 



I muft not forget to take notice^ 

 that fome learned modern. Chymifts 

 would be thought to explicate divers 



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