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forts of MoflTes^and Rudiments ofVegeta^tion ; which laft is 
green fubftance on the furface of the earth, in rivers, cifterns, 
where rain often falL^and on (hips between wind and water^very 
apt to run into niofs and fibres. 
Note, I. The Veflels, wherein thefe Diftillations were per- 
formed, though exceedingly well waflied with water, fcowred 
with common ralt,rand,aflies,roap,fixt falts,&c. and afterwards 
expofed many years unto the Air,wind,rain,dewsaad frofl:s,yec 
neverthelefsretain'da very ftrong fmell, not much unlike that 
of (^ufc. 
2. The water left at the bottom of the glafs, after the firft 
rectification, was fomewhat acetous ; efpecially when the herbs 
were not fufficiently fermented. 
3. If the Herbs are duly fermented, they leave little Caj?ut 
moYtuum^ fometimesnoc a twentieth, and never, by my trials, 
* above a tenth part ; whereas diftilled hefore fermentation they 
leave much mo^e; And this remaining coal,burnt to aflie^,yields 
fcarceany A'cali orfixt Salt. 
4. The Volatil Sale is much more tWn the Fixt Salt vyould 
have been, afforded by the herb incinerated the ordinary way, 
5* All thofe Herbs which yield ftore of fix'd Salt (fuch as 
Worm wood,Cardaus, Mugwort, Sage, &c, ) do iikewife, being 
thus raanaged,afford plentifully a Volatil Salt. 
6. Thefe Volatil Salts being highly reflined, did nor, that I 
could perceive, differ from each other ^ as neither do Vinous 
SpiritsoffermentedVegetableSjOr their Fixed Salts highly pu- 
rified and rectified. 
7. During the Fermentation, the room would be ftrongly 
perfumed ^^//^^^'^g/;^;^/^^ with the natural fcent of the Herb.if 
it had any eminently peculiar fmell^ i;^ the middle ^ with the 
fcent of a mixt between that and the Urinous : But being w^ell 
putrified, became fenfible Urinous. 
8. The diftilied liquor of fome herbs, at the firft re6ificati- 
on,yie!ded a Spirit very hot ; but the laft inclined rather to 
that of pungent vinous fpirits of Scurvygrafs,Horfe-radifh, be- 
ing,if I may fo fpeak, piperaceous and biting, rather than like 
Volatil Salts ; but after repeated reflifications, one, two, or 
n.o:e, according to the nature of the plant, or time it hadfer^ 
mented, became perfeflly Urinous, This was ufually? when 
the 
