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filver to be pure, meerly from its ha- 

 ving been diftilled over. 



There remains but one body 

 more heavy than thofe I come from 

 naming, and that is Gold--, which, be- 

 ing alfo of a fixity fo great that 'tis in- 

 deed admirable , I doe not wonder 

 that not onely the more wary Natur 

 ralifts, but the more fevere among 

 theChymifts themfelves (hould think 

 it incapable of being volatilized. 

 But yet> if we confider, how very 

 minute parts Cold may be rational- 

 ly fuppofed to confift of, and to be 

 divisible into, me thinks it (hould not 

 feem impoffible ^ that, if men could 

 light on Volatil Salts endowed with 

 figures fit to ftick faft to the corpu- 

 fclesofthe Gold, they would carry 

 up with them bodies, whofe folidity 

 can fcarce be more extraordinary 

 than their minutenefs is : And in ef- 

 fect, we have made more than one 

 Men (lr num.; with which fome particles 

 of Gold may be carried up. But 

 when I employed that which I recom- 

 mended to you formerly under the 



name 



