afte(3:ed the Pallat much more like fatt peterj than Common 
fait y bat was alfo very fufible, and inflammable, though 
produced of two ua-inflammable bodies ; and the fame lub- 
fiance, confifting of ^aW fairs , by a certain way of the Au^ 
thor,produced a Fixt fait. 
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6, Oyle of Vitriol poured u^on a Solution of Bay. fait : whence 
was abftradred a liquor, that by the fmell and Taftc ap- 
peared to be a fpirit of fait Jn which operation^the mixture, 
by working a great change of Texture, did fo alter the na- 
ture of the compounding Bodies^ that the fea-faIt5though a 
confiderably fixe Body, was diftiU'd over in a moderate 
Fire of fandj whilft the Oyl of Vitriol, though no fuch 
grofs falti Jwairby the fame operation fo fixr^ as to ftay be- 
hind; Befides that the fame, by a competent heat yeilded 
afubftance, though not infipid, yet not at allofthetaftb 
of Sea-falt,orofany other pungent one, much lefs having 
the highly corrofiye acidity of oyl of Vitriol^C^r. 
y.' ASffdvent^ made by pBuring a fit eng fpirit of Nitre m 
de reUifiedOyl of the Butter of Antimony y and then difiilling off 
all the liquor^ that would come over, ^c. This Menftruum (^caU 
led by the Author P^rara//!^w ) being put to highly refined 
Gold, deflroyed its Texturej and produced, after the me- 
thod prefcribed in the book, a true Silver^ as its whitenefs 
incolouf^difTolublenes in Jqua fortis^zud odious Bitterncf% 
did manifcft: which change of a Mettal5Commonly efteemed 
to be abfolutelyindeftrudlibleby Art, though it be far from 
hQing Lucriferous, is yet exceedingly 7/j/?r/^?W ; as is alio 
the way, the Author here addsj of Folatili^^ng Gold, by the 
gowerof the fame 2)i^/ti'^«^. 
^.Aqua fortis^concoaguhted mtb differing Bodies ^^ToAnctd 
very differing Concretes : And the fame Numeral Saline 
Corpuklcs, that being affociated with thofcof one Mettal, 
Jiadalready produced a Body eminent in one Tafle, did af-» 
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