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IF we put highly reftified Spirit of 

 Wine upon crude Sulphur , or 

 even Flowers of Sulphur 5 the Li- 

 quor will lie quietly thereon, efpe- 

 cially in the cold, for many hours 

 and days without making any vifi- 

 ble Solution of it } and if fuch ex- 

 actly dephlegmed Spirit were put on 

 very dry Salt of Tartar 3 the Salt 

 would lie in an undiffolved powder 

 at the bottom : and yet , if before 

 any Liquor be employed , the Sul- 

 phur be gently melted^ and then the 

 Alkali of Tartar be by degrees put 

 to it and incorporated with it 3 as 

 there will refult a new Texture dis- 

 coverable to the eye by the new 

 colour of the Compofition, fo there 

 will emerge a difpofitioa that was 

 not before in either of the Ingredi- 

 ents., to be diflTolved by Spirit of 

 Wine $ infomuch, that though the 

 mixture be kept till it be quite cold, 

 D 4 or 



