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exceeding bracklili. Evaporate that water away , and tfiere 
remains the bodyj ligned B, which being duly prepared, and 
time allowed ( which I now have not ) I have fometimes feen to 
rtiootinto »Wr/Vs an inch long, being fee to Chryftallize in a 
cold Cellar. This I Judge to be , for the greater part. Niter 5 
refembling much in tafte that Niter ^ which breaks out upon th^ 
Cliffe near the Well , mentioned p. 106, of ray Anfwer. 
DiiTolve again this Body in diftilled v^ater^ and filter ir , and 
the water fliall be very brackifli, but there fhall remain in the 
. filter the powder 3 fignedC, whichfeems to bethe Ahminom 
part: This is fometimes found to belikea Chr ftallin fand^ 
as you have it in the paper , figned C C5. 1 think, the diffe- 
rence in the Ihooting arifeth from the different degrees of heat , 
which is given it. Evaporat this water away , and you have a 
.Srf/^,mark't D, or that ( D D v) the difference betwixt them is 
in the degrees of heat : In both which, if you note it, there are 
fome fmall > which I take to be the mtr&m particles inter- 
fperfed . I his \ have fometimes depurated, till it hath become 
as white as Chalk, and yet retained itsSaltnefs, as you have 
it figned D D D. Now , whether this Salt be from the Seaj^or 
rather the Salt of all the minerals, I (ball leave it toothers to 
Judge 5 My opinion is, that it is nothing elfe than the produ(5l of 
the Minerals ^ which yet may receive fome fmall addition from 
the Sea. 
When the 5'/?^?i?»water is firft fet upon the fire , there falls to 
the bottom a yellowifh powder, which, if that water be filtred^ 
flays behind, mark'tE: whether this be the fame with the a- 
chre ^ that is found in the bottom of theveffel, when the wa-> 
ter is conveyed at diftance , I cannot fay j but they are both of a 
colour. 
Here I had thought to have fent you the Black fcdiment(\r\tn- 
tionedp. 66. of my Anfwer ) which falls to the bottom of the 
veffel , after the water hath received a tindure from the Gall^ 
which alfo calcineth of a dark brown colour, which I take to 
hQihtlren Mineral*^ but it being hard frofty weather, when 
Iwaslaft nScarbrough^ it would not feparate» If yoadefire 
it, I ftiallfupply it in Summer. 
Now becaufe my Adverfary hath made a great lufle aboEC 
the 
