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and the yielding a Volatile Salt., to 

 that which we have oblerved Fermen- 

 tation and Putrefa&ion to have made 

 in the juice of Grapes, Urine, and 

 fbme other bodies. How far the like 

 fuccefs may be expe&ed in other Tri- 

 alls, I cannot tell 5 efpecially not ha- 

 ving by me any Notes of the events 

 of fbme Attempts which that Inquiry 

 put me upon : Onely I remember in 

 general, that^ as fbme trials, I made 

 with dther Seeds, and even with A- 

 romatick ones, did not afford me any 

 Volatile Salt 3 fo the fuccefs of other 

 trials made me now and then thinkj 

 that fome fubjefts of the Vegetable 

 kingdom, whence we are wont to 

 drive over acid Spirits, but no dry 

 Salt, may be diftilled with fo luckily 

 regulated a heat, as to afford fome- 

 thing, though but little, of Volatile 

 Salt j and that perhaps more bodies 

 would be found to doe fo, were they 

 not too haftily or violently preft by 

 the fire, whereby fuch faline fche- 

 matifms of the defired parts of the 

 matter are (by being difiipated or 

 B 3 con- 



