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Some Queries whereby to Examim Mineral Waters 
by the Learned Sir William Petty Knight. 
I TJT O W much heavier tlaen Brandy ? 
X JL 2..Hqw much common Water will extinguifh 
its Taft?" - 
i . What quantity of Salt upon Evaporation ? 
4. How much ^ y^fj^joi > will diflblve in a Pint of it ? 
[M^ri?,&c.J 
Whether any Animalcula will breed in it, and in 
how long time? 
Whether Fijh, v\2.,Trouts^,Eeles^ &c. will live in it, 
and how long? 
7. Whether it will hinder or promote t\v^ CurMing of 
Milk^ and Fermentation of Liquor s.^z f 
8. Whether ^y^^/^j) will mingle with it ? 
f . Whether it will extradl the diflblvable parts of 
Herbs, l^ots^Seeds^ more orlefsthan other water ? 
i. e. Whether it be a more powerful Menjiruum r* 
10. How Galles will change its colour > 
11. How it will change the colour ot Syrup of Violet^s ? 
12. How it differs from other ^^/j^^r/ in receiving the 
colour oiChocheneele, Sajfprn, Violets ^l^c > 
i^. How it boy Is dry Pea/e r 
14» How it colours f refli 5^^/and other F/eJh in hoj ling? 
15-. Flow it waflies Hands, Boards, Linnen 6cc f 
Id. Flow it extracts Malt in Brewing ^ 
I How it quenches, thirftyjith Meat or otherwife > 
18. Whether it //z/^r^^j- In what quantity of time and 
with what Symptoms > 
19 . Whether it promote Urine, Sweat or Sleep > 
2b, Whether it fharpen or flatten the Jppetite to meat? 
11. In 
