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a general way deduced from the Commixture^F thcf& Minci 
f al Corpufcks 5 lb the greatnefs of thofij virtues and the va^ 
fiety of thofe proprieties in particular may be afcribed to the 
peculiar nature of the impregnating h'quorSjtp the diverfity of 
thcns, and to the greater and leffer propo«iom^ wherciathey 
are mixt with the petrefeent Juice* 
Having made this Conjefturc probable as to Tran/p4T€n^ 
CemS) and withal occurr*<i to fome fpeciousObjeiJionsjhe dct 
Icends to make it oiit^that thofe Arguments, which he hath pro* 
duced to prove^ that Diaphanoin Gems may be endow d with 
Virtues by the Mineral fiibftanccith^y contain pr ar^ in part 
made up of, will hold more ftrongfy as to 0 facour ones : yfhicii 
he further confirms by four particular Arguments ; fetched 
fartly from the great (pecifick Gravity of divers Opacous and 
Medicinal ftones 5 party from the fitneft of Ijis Hypothefis to 
render a reafon of divers /^^^wcw^w^ relating thereunto, fomc 
of them (carce at all, and others iriuch lefs probably to jbe a;df^ 
counted for without it ; fartty from the Metallin (ubftances 
to be manifeftly (eparated or obtained from the Stones he is 
treat irig of § and partly from the Nature of the Bodies whereof 
Medicinal Stones leem to be compounded; In which laft it i$ 
peculiarly obferved by the Author, that the fubtlcty and pe- 
betrancy of fome Liquorsjif duly confidered,may evince it to 
be poflible, that fuqh Bodies (hould be petrified by them and 
with them,as may in part confift of Animal and Vegetable fub- 
ftancesjas in petrified SkulkjBQne$,and pieces of W Be- 
fides, that not only therie miay be B^fo/ /,SealcdEai-(h$,an^ 
like folSls that are commionl^ Medicinal, liard- 
I ned into Stone by petrifying Agents ; but that alfo other 
Earths^ fubjca to be petrified^may have Klcdicinal and fubtle 
I particles of fuch a kind in them^ as fcarce any body would 
! expe^S:; of which alledges fbfte m 
« fOTthem, and many other uncbmtnbirf bbfervkbte^ 
refer the Carious Reader to the Book iticl£ 
