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That 2)^21^ newly gathered and filtred through a clean Linnen 
cloth, though it be not very clear, is of a yellowifli Colour, 
fomewhat approaching to that of Urine. 
That having endevoured to putrefy it by putting feveral pro- 
portions into Glafs bodies with blind heads, and letting them 
in feveral heats, as of dung, and gentle baths, he quite failed of 
his intention : for heat, though never fo gentle, did rather cla- 
rify, and preferve it fweetj though continued for two months 
togetherj then caufe any putrefadrion or feparation of parts. 
Thatexpofingot it totheSun fora whole Summer in Glaf- 
fes, that hold about two Gallons, with narrow mouths, that 
might be ftopp'd with Cork 5 the only confiderable alteration, 
he obferved to be produced in it) was, that Store of green fluff 
(fuch as isfeenin Summer in ditches and ftanding waters) float- 
ed on the top, and, in foraeplacesj grew to the fides of the 
Gkfs. 
That putting four or five Gallons of it into a half Tufc^as they 
call it, of Wood, and {training a Canvas over it, to keep out 
Duftand InfedS) and letting it ftand in feme fh-ady room for 
three weeks or a month, it did of it felf putrefy and ftink ex- 
ceedingly , and let fall to the bottom a black fediment like 
Mudd. 
That, comingoften to f^^e, what Alterations appeared in the 
putrefadiion^ He obferved, that at the beginning, within twenty 
four hours, a flimy film floated on the top of ihe water, which 
after a while falling to the bottom, there came an9iher fuch film 
in iSs pface. ■ 
That if Derv were put into a long narrow VeiTel of Glafs/uch 
as formerly were ufed for Receivers in diftiilingof Jqua Fort/s, 
the flime would rife to that height, that He could take it off with 
a Spoon V ^ii^ when he had put a pretty quantity of it into a 
drinkingOlafs^and that it had fiood all night,and the water drci:* 
ned from it, if He had turned it out of his hand, it would fland 
upright in figure of the Glafs, in fubfl:ance like boyled white 
Starch, though fomething more tranfparent , if his memory 
J fail him not. , i ■ , ^ 
That having once gotten a pretty quantity of this getly , and 
put itinto a Glafs. body and Bhnd-head, Hefetitinto a gentle 
Bathj 
