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would burn every drop away, that 

 fo it might have no flegm nor wa- 

 ter of its own, I poured this upon 

 the faline,folution 3 and (baking the, 

 liquors pretty well together to 

 bring them to mix as well as I could, 

 I laid the tube in a quiet place, 

 and afterwards found, as I expefted, 

 that there was a pretty quantity of 

 white fait of Tartar fallen to the 

 bottom of the vefTel, which fait had 

 been meerly forfaken by the aque- 

 ous particles that fuftained it be- 

 fore 5 but forfook it to pafs into the 

 fpiritof wine, wherewith they were 

 more difpofed to aflbciate them- 

 felves 3 which I concluded, becaufe 

 havings before I poured on thislaft 

 named liquor, made a mark on the 

 glafs to (hew how far the lixivium 

 reached 5 I found ( what 1 looked 

 for ) that after the Precipitation, the 

 Lixivlum^'thdX remained yet ftrong 

 enough to continue unmixed with 

 the incumbent fpirit, had its furface 

 not where the mark (hewed it had 



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