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an^ij^^'^f^^l^o^f^'^^^^^^ farts, parmm dUtheJin, qu£ in mnmU 
thati^ight make it infome un- Ikhn^enu^ non obfervatis infig- 
obferved things confiderably »e0il/i a iMercurio vulgar i dlf- 
differing from common Mercury, crepantiam concilUre qneat : At* 
And among thefe differing Qua- que has inter gluditates differen- 
lities I did not know but one tes nefciebAm annon ca recenferi 
might well be, that of growing merito pojfet^ qua incalefcit cum 
hot with <jold. And thisOpini- JurocommixtPi^. Atque banc Opi- 
on I judg'd the more reafonable; nionem rationi eo magis confenta- 
becaufe, having devifed two neam arbitrabaryqu0d,eoccogiutd 
waies (unpraftifed that I know u me duplici methodo {haClenm k 
of by any Chymift) \\\tone^ to Chymicorum nullo^ quudfiiam^in 
to difcover whether a clean and praxinversa^ ) urja quidem ^ ut 
carefully diftilled Mercury manifefium redder em^ ejjetne pU' 
might not be a compounded r$i4^Hrateque di(lillAtus NLercuri- 
Body, and have in it pares that /^, corfm compofitum , partefque 
wercnot;MercuriaIandthe<?/^<fr, contineret non Mercuriales; al- 
out of focha fine diftill'd Mer- teravero, ex purificato ejufmodi 
cury to feparate parts, and that ^ diflillato Mercuric partes Jepd' 
in no defpicable number , that randinonpaf^cas manifejlo heterc* 
are p'ainly heterogeneous , I geneas \ experiundo comperi , 
found upon trial, that both the tramque tlUm methodum h me 
Methods I had thought^on would inventam fuccejfu gaudere: Id 
fucc^cd, w^hich warranted me to qmd auClor amentum mihi baud 
think it poffible, that a Mercury leve erat^ utpoffibile exijlimarem^ 
very fine and clean , and even Mer curium valde def^catum^ 
purg'd by Sublimations and Di- quin ^per [Mimationes & dijiil- 
ftilIations,may by Art have been Utiones repurgatum^ Arte pojfe 
made to affume and incorporate eo redigi^ ut ajfumat fecumque 
with it a multitude of heteroge- conflet heterogeneorum cprpufcu- 
neous Corpurc!es,not to be dif- lor urn multitudinem , qudi non- 
cover'd^much lefs feparaced,(as nifi dperito jirtis filio detegi^mul- 
t hofe of Tinn^LeadyS>cc,m^y bej tu minus fegregari queant {ut fieri 
but by a skiiful Arcift. de Stanneis, Plumbeis,c^^;. corpuj- 
cults potefi.) 
6.This in the general may fuf- Hoc generatim fuffecerit ^ ut 
fice to make me fufpend my meum de Problemate fupra, propo- 
Judgment about the Probleme fito judicium fufpendam.d^ ad cx- 
formerly proposed, and to en- perimenta fumenda properem ^ 
gig° quibus 
