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fens, that all folid Bodies, as Stones, 

 Minerals, and Metals shemfelves, by 

 having this Liquor duly abftra&ed 

 ordiftill'd off from them > may be 

 changed into Salt , equiponderant 

 to the refpe&ive bodies whereon the 

 Menfcruum was put. So that fup- 

 pofing the Alfyheji to be totally ab- 

 drafted , ( as it feems very proba* 

 ble to be , fince the weight of the 

 body whence 'twas drawn off is not 

 altered 5 ) what other change than of 

 Texture can be reafonably imagin'd 

 to have been made in the tranfmu- 

 ted bodies > and yet divers of them, 

 as Flints, Rubies Saphyrs, Gold 5 

 Silver, &c. that were infoluble be- 

 fore, (bme of them in any known 

 Menfhuums, and others in any but 

 Corrofive Liquors, come to be capa- 

 ble of being diflblv'd in common 

 water* 



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