(aoi) ^ 
mingled with the Spirit ofWine.z little Spirit of Sal^mornac\^ 
aiade(as I have elfewhere delivcred)by the 
help oi^MUime : which Spirit I ckoofe, ^ v/ffulnefs of 
beeauferthough it abounds in a Sale not ^ 
SowrejbutUrinous,yet I never obferved h 
(how ftrong foever I made ic)to coagulate Spirit of Wine.The 
e^^^rcircuraftancc is^that I ufiiaily found it convenient, to let 
the little Animats.ll m^mi to imbalnie , lie for a lictie while in 
ordinary Spirit of Winejio wafli off the loofer fiith^that is wont 
to adhere to the Chick , when taken one of the Egge ^ and 
then, having put either the fame kind of Spirit, or becter upon 
the fame Bird, I fufFerd it to foak fome hours (perhaps fom^ 
daies, pro re natd) therein, that the Liquor^haviog drawn as it 
were whacTin£tare It could 5 ihtFcstus being remov'd into 
more pure and well dephlegm'd Spirit ofWuie, might not 
dif colour it^ but leave icalraoft as limpid, as before it was 
put in. 
An Extra^ 
Of a Letter^ fent lately to Sir Robert Moray out of Vir- 
ginia , concerning an unnfml way of propagating Mul- 
berry trees there^ for the better improvement of the Silk- 
Work; together with fome other particulars^ tending to 
the good of that ?hnt2tion. 
I am difappointed at this time of fome Rarities of Minerals, 
Mettalsj and Stones 5 bat you may have them any other time, 
as conveniently, lhave planted here already ten thou- 
fand Mulberry trees ; and hope, within two or three years, to 
reap ^ood filk of them. I have planted them in a way unufual 
here, which advances them two or three years growtlij in ref- 
pe<5l: of their being fown in feed : And they are now^ at writing 
hereof all holding good, although this has been a very long 
and bitter winter with us^ much longer and colder, than ever 
? did find it in Scotland or England, I intend likewife to plant 
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