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Mercury : which., by fome trials^ not 

 fo proper to be here mentioned, 

 feemed to have its falivating and e- 

 metick powers extraordinarily infrin- 

 ged^ and fometimes quite fupprefled. 

 But this onely upon the bye. In all 

 the other Inftances^ ( wheretvith I 

 (hall conclude thefe Notes,) I (hall 

 employ one Menfiruum^ Oil Of Vi- 

 triol^ and (hew you the efficacy of it 

 in fixing fome parts of volatile bo- 

 dies with fome parts of it felf j by 

 which examples it may appear, that 

 a Volatile body may not onely lefleri 

 the volatility of another body,* as in 

 the lately mentioned cafe of our fpi- 

 rituous Sal Armoniac 5 but that two 

 Subftances, that apart were volatile, 

 may compofe a third, that will not 

 onely be lefs volatile, but confidtra- 

 bly (if not altogether) fixt. 



We mixed then, by degrees^ a- 

 bout equal parts of Oil of Vitriol and 

 Oil of Turpentine : and though each of 

 them fingle D efpecially the latter, will 

 afcend with a moderate fire in a 

 Sand-furnace J yet^ after the Diftil- 



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