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fall to the ground and continue 

 undiffolved 3 and that if when 

 water is fatiated, any of the liquor 

 be evaporated or otherwife waited, 

 it will in proportion let fall the fait 

 it had already taken up; I conclu- 

 ded, that if I could mingle with 

 water any liquor, with which its 

 particles would more readily aflbci- 

 ate than with thofe of Salt, the 

 depriving the folution of fo many 

 of its aqueous particles would be 

 equivalent to the evaporation of as 

 much water or thereabouts, as they, 

 by being united, could compofe. 

 Wherefore making a lixivium of di- 

 ftilled water or clean rain-water, 

 and of Salt of Tartar foftrong, that 

 if a grain more were caft in it , it 

 would lie undiffolved at the bot- 

 tom 5 I put a quantity of this fiery 

 Lixivium into a f lender cylindrical 

 veflel, till it had therein reached 

 fuch a height as I thought fit 5 then 

 taking as much as I thought fuffi- 

 cient of ftrong fpirit of wine, that 



would 



