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but rather, after a good while , it 

 would leave in the bottom of the 

 Glafs a confiderable , if not the 

 greateft, part of it fcarce, if at all, 

 fenfibly alter'd. And the Menftru- 

 urn feem'd rather to have ex t rafted 

 a Tinfture , than made an ordinary 

 Solution 5 fince the colour of it was 

 a high yellow or reddifh , whereas 

 Mars diffolved in Spirit of Salt, af- 

 fords a green Solution. Whether 

 by repeated Operations with frefh 

 Menftruum further Diflblutions 

 might in time be made^ 1 had not oc- 

 cafion to try, and it may fuffice for 

 our prefent purpofe, that Mars by 

 the operation of the fire did evi- 

 dently acquire, not, as Mercury had 

 done, a manifeft facility, but on the 

 contrary, a great indifpofition to be 

 diflblved by Spirit of Salt. 



To fecond this Experiment , we 

 vary'd it, by employing, inftead of 

 Spirit of Salt , ftrong Oyl of Vitri- 

 ol, which being pourd on a little 

 Crocus Martis made per fe , did not, 

 as that MenfirHum is wont to do up- 

 on 



