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to the refpe&ive bodies that afforded 

 them., and having all the Qualities 

 of Pvain- water* which if they have, I 

 need not tell you that they rnuft be 

 very Volatile. And I fee not how 

 thole that admit the Truth of this 

 ftrange Alkaheftical operation, can 

 well deny, that Volatility depends 

 upon the Mechanical affe&ions of 

 matter fince it appears not, that the 

 Alkaheft does, at leaft in our cafe D 

 work upon bodies otherwife than 

 Mechanically. And it rauft be con- 

 fetti that the fame material parts of 

 a portion of corporeal fubftance , 

 which, when they were aflbciated 

 and contexed (whether by an Arche- 

 us , feed , form , or what elfe you 

 pleafe,) after fuch a determinate man- 

 ner, conftituted a folid and fixt bo- 

 dy, as a Flint or a lump of Gold 3 by 

 having their Texture diflblved 5 and 

 (perhaps after being fubtilized) by 

 being freed from their former impli- 

 cations or firm cohefions, may be- 

 come th^ parts of a fluid body total- 

 ly Volatile* 



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