confounded ) deftroyed or vitiated ? 

 as in a flow 5 dextrous, or fortunate 

 way of management would come 

 fortb > not in a liquid, but a faline 

 form. Of which Obfervation we 

 may elfewhere mention fome Inftan* 

 ees 5 and (hall before the clofe of this 

 Paper name one D afforded us by crude 

 Tartar. 



3. Though Silver be one of the 

 fixedft bodies that we know of, yet 

 that 'tis not irnpoffiblebut that,chief- 

 ly by a change of Texture, it may 

 ftrangely bedifpofed to Volatility^ I 

 was induced to think by what I re- 

 member once happened to me. A 

 Gentleman of my acquaintance, ftu- 

 dious of Chymical Arcana, having 

 lighted on a ftrange Menftruum, 

 which he affirmed, and I had fome 

 caufe to believe, not to be corrofive, 

 he abftra&ed it from feveral metalls, 

 (for the fame Liquour would ferve 

 again and again,) andbrought me the 

 Remainders , with a delire that I 

 would endeavour to reduce thofe of 

 J-ead and S Jver into the priftine me- 

 tals 



