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which therefore fome will have to be 

 an Alcalizat liquor, and others lift it 

 among Acids,though I did not find it 

 neither to bedeftroyedor much al- 

 tered by being put upon Coral or fait 

 of Tartar,as would happen to an acid 

 Met7Jlruum*> nor yet by being digefted 

 with and diftilled from fea Salt, as 

 might be probably expe&edfrom an 

 Alcalizat onerAand among thofe very 

 bodies which their Tafts perfwade 

 Chy milts to reckon amongftAcids,one 

 may (according to what I formerly 

 noted) obferve fo great a difference 

 and variety of relilhes, that, perhaps 

 without being too fevere, I may fay 5 

 that if I were to allow Acids to be 

 One Principle, it fhould be only in 

 fome fuch Metaphyseal fenfe, as that 

 wherein Air is faid to be One Body, 

 though it confift of the aflbciated ef- 

 fluviums of a multitude of Corpufcles 

 of very differing Natures, that agree 

 in very little fave in their being mi- 

 nute enough to concur to the Com- 

 politionof a fluid aggregate, confift- 



