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Gold, will not be Recovered by any water of Separatum ; Except you put a 

 Greater Quantity of Silver , to draw to ir the LefTe ; which (he faid) is the 

 laft Refugein Separations. But that is a tedious way,which no Man (almoft) 

 will think on. This would be better enquired 5 And the Quantity of the 

 Fifteenth turned to a Twentieth ; And likewife with fome little Additio- 

 nal, that may further the Intrinji que Incorporation. Note that Silver in Gold 

 will be detected by Weighs compared with the Dimenfion; But LfWin Sil- 

 ver; {Lead being the Weightier Metal,) will not be dete&ed ; If you take fo 

 much the more Silver,^ will countervaile the Over-weight of the Lead. 



Qoldis the onely Subftance, which hath nothing in it Volatile, and yet 

 mclteth without much difficultie. The Melting fheweth that it is not 

 Jejune, or Scarce in Spirit. So that the fixing of it, is not Want of Spirit to 

 fly out, but the Equal Spreading of the Tangible Parts , and the Clofe Coacer- 

 vationoi them : Whereby they have the lefle Appetite , and no Meanes 

 (at all)to ifTiie forth.lt were good thereforeto try,whether GlajT Re-moulten 

 do leefe any weight > For the Parts in GlajJ'e are evenly Spred; But they are 

 not fo Clofe as in Gold 5 As we fee by the Eafie Admimon of Light, Heat, 

 and Cold s And by the SmalneJJe of the Weight. There be other Bodies, Fixed, 

 which have little, or no Spirit: So as there is nothing to fly out-, As we 

 fee in the Stuff e , whereof Coppels are made ; Which they put into Furna- 

 ces-, Upon which Fire worketh not : So that there are three Caufes of Fixa- 

 tion 5 Th^ Even Spreading both of the Spirits, and Tangible Parts; The Cluf e- 

 nejje of the Tangible Parts ; And the JejuneneJJe , or Extream Comminution of 

 Spirits : of which Three,the two Firft may be joyned with a Nature Lique- 



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Jt is a Profound Contemplation^ Nature , to confider of the EmptineJJ'e, (as 

 we may call it,)or Infatisfattiou of feveral Bodies^ And of their Appetite to 

 take in Others. Aire taketh in Lights, and Sounds, and Smells , and Vapours; 

 And it is moft manifeit, that it doth it with a kind otThirft , as not fatif- 

 fied with his own former Confidence For elfe it would never receive 

 them in fo fuddenly, and eafily. Water, and all Liquours , doe haftily re- 

 ceive Drie and more Terreprial Bodies, Proportionable : And Brie Bodies, 

 on the other fide, drink in waters and Liquours : So that, (as it was well 

 faid, by one of the Ancients,^ Earthy and Watry Subjlmces,) One is a Glue to 

 another Parchment,Skins,Cloth,tkc. drink in Liquours.: though themfelves be 

 Entire Bodies , and not Comminuted , as Sand; and Afhes ; Not apparently 

 Porous: Metals themfelves doe receive in readily Strong-Waters • And 

 Strong-waters likewife doe readily pierce into Metals, and Stones : And that 

 Strong-water will touch upon Gold, that will not touch upon Silver ; And 

 e Converfo. And Gold, which feemeth by the Weight, to be the Clofeft, and 

 moft Solid Body, doth greedily drink in Quick-Silver. And it feemeth,that 

 this Reception of other Bodits,is not Violent : For it is (many times ) Reci- 

 procal , and as it were with Confent. Of the Caufeof this,and to what Ax- 

 iome'it may be referred, confider attentively*, For as for the Pretty Af- 

 fertion, that Matter is like a Common Strumpet, that defireth all Formes,it is 

 \m.aVVandringN$tion. Onely Flame doth not content it felf to take 

 in any other Body ; But either to overcome and turn ano- 

 ther Body into it Self, as by Vi&ory; Or 

 itSelftodye, and 

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