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S^^LT of the tASHES 
out of an Oven for the 
FOUND ERT of C^NON. 
At, and above the Iron doors of the mouth of a Fur- 
nace, where f^^wo;^ are caft, there fticks a white ftufflike 
Afties, which is made of the Metalline fubftances, toge- 
ther with the Soot rifmg out of the Furnace. I mixt fome 
of this with water, and let it ftand till the grofler parts 
werefubfided, and the liquor was pretty clear, and then 
I obferved therein, a very great number of fmall clear 
thin Pipes, fo extremely ilender, that I coold hardly fee 
them i when thefe Pipes were grown to about the big* 
nefsof the 25'th part of a hair, the ends of them were 
flop't, as Numb. 9. Fig. A, Of thefe Salts there were 
feverall thoufands in one drop of water. There were 
likewile fwimming about, a few particles as /i^; 5. and 
tho' I could not difcernthe thicknef? in the firft figures, 
yet in thofe laft mentioned it was plain, that it was very 
little in comparifon of the bredth ; at another time there 
appeared to me Salts like J/)^. €. 
When I fpread fome of the above mentioned water» 
upon a clean glafs, to make it ly more in one place 
then another, the water would not ftick to the glafs, 
but run together, as if it had been water flied upon an 
oyly difh; or rather as if it felf had been oyl; but it 
feemed to be moftlike blew Vitriol water. I remember, 
whenlformerly took fome of thefe Aflies, and diffolved 
them in water as now, there once appeared ftrange 
figures, made out of the Salts, refembling Plants with 
their roots and fibres. 
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