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with the fubcle and aftive ones gruorump/trtibud uberrime f^to: 
of congruous Metals or Mine- Hd^c^ inquxm^ fimilia hoc Uco 
rals. Thefe and the like points affirmare admodumvererer ; cum 
I fliould, as I was faying, much hk nomiji ea trddere wjittuerim 
fcruple at offering to determine qua ad ret Htjloriam facimt \ 
in this place, where what f de- quanquam f rater rtmnon exijli- 
fign'd to deliver was Hiftorical, mAverim^ jamjam indigitatos rei 
though I have not thought it hu]ti4 apices tttmere , ejuibd ftri- 
impertinent to glance at the ^urs ijl^e ea poffint Lectort in- 
points lately mention*d,becaufe gererCy qua ad meliorem turn di- 
thofe glances may intimate Borum turn d'tcendorum intelli- 
things conducive to the better gejitiamconducere quea»t. 
underftanding of what 1 have 
faid, and have to fay in ihis Paper. 
I 2. I doubt not but what I Nm dubito , qnin haEienus a 
have related and hinted has gi- me cnarrata indigitataque Curio- 
ven ycu a Curiofity to know fttatemintepepererint ^ aliqutd 
•fomevvhar further of this Mercu- ampUu6 de hoc Mercuric cogno- 
ry : And I confefs, that if there fcendi : £/ fateor , fi quid veri 
be any truth in what fome of the fubeji ei , quod quidam ex proba- 
moft approved Spagyrijls have tiffimis Spagvricis de quodam 
deliver'd about a Solvent of Juri di^olvente ^ quod affine vi- 
Gold that feems of kin, and per- deturnoftro^ nec eo forte multo 
haps IS not much Nobler than ejl nobtliu^ ^ tradiderunt ex- 
one that I had; it feems allow- fpeSfarefts fuerity ipfiffimumhoc 
able to expeft, that even ou;s riojlrumin infignem cum in Me- 
(hould be of more than ordina- dicina tum ir^ Mchyma ufum ce^- 
ry ufe, both in Fhyfick and Al- derepojfe. Verum cum mfortu- 
chymy. But the misfortune I had nitim illud^ quo infigniori quanti- 
to have loft a confiderablequan- tate ejm fui privatum , fiipatum 
ti:yof ir, being afterward in- fuertt fuhitd morte Operatori^ 
creafed by the almoft fudden mici, cm in eo parando penitus 
death of the only Operator I fidebam^ mentem plane alienarn 
trufted in the making of it^ I abiteranda tarn mole fi a prapara- 
was altogether difcouraged tionefenfi-^ maxime cumoccupa- 
from repeating fuch a trouble- tiones^ migrationes^ adverfa va- 
fom Preparation, efpecially be- letudo fiudiaque gratiora alior- 
ing diverted by Bufinefs, Re- fummetraherent \ Et licet Ex- 
moves, Sicknefs, and more plea- perimenta quadam non (pernen- 
fing ' da^^ 
