♦ SeeNumb.ioi. irendrcda particular Accompt This Salt may alfo 
be obtain'd from Soct^ Urim, the Blood of Men and other Animals ; 
from Bones^ and efpecially cranium's or Skuls of Men ^ from many 
forts of Horns ; (*and indeed no f abjcft yields theiw fo copioufly, as 
thofc which are annually caft by SUggs or other Dcer^jfrom Vipers 
in great plenty ; as alfo from divers other Animals. I need nor here 
mention FaBitious Salt Armoniack^ihdX being a commixture offeve- 
fal of the mention'd Subftances with Sea-Salt. Alfo many Minerals 
and Foffils contain Volatil Salt ; vaft quantities of Salt Armoniack 
being found in many parts of the Eaji ; which was probably fubli- 
med into thofe Caverns, whence it is extrafled by the force of Sub- 
terraneal Fires : Which con^efture is fufficiencly authorifed by the 
fame Subftances being gather'd near the Crateres or Mouth s of our 
Eurofeau Vulcans of aj/EtnajHecU^Vefuvius^in Camfis FbUgreis ; in 
England alfo near the Mouth's of fevcral Coal-Mines which have 
becnaccidentally fired: And of recent memory that Torrent of melt- 
ed Minerals, which boiled over the Crucible(if l may fofpeakjup- 
on the late Conflagration in Sicily, and poured it felfinto the adja- 
cent Plains.This liquid Fire,asit cooled,condenfing,became crufty 
at top , and ahnoft every where Stones of Salts were fublim'd or 
thruft forth by the violence and fury of the Heat.Some of thefe Salts 
refembled the vulgar Sea-SaIt50thers,Niter;fome were of an Alumi- 
nous and Vitriolicknature^but that which was moft copious and uni- 
verfal,was Armoniack; which although much difcoloured,and ren- 
dred very impure in moft places by its union with various metal- 
lick and mineral partides,yet did chiefly ,as the Faftitious Salt Ar- 
moniack, confift of Marine and Volatil, commonly call'd Urinous 
Salts, as did alio the forc-mention'd ; as many Experiments have in- 
forsn'd me, too numerous and tedious to be here inferred* Befides 
thefe Mineral Subftances already mention*d/everal forts of Earth, 
Claysand Marie, whicharefetch'tfromtheSuperficial or Corti- 
cal part of the Earth, do contain ftore of Volatil Salts ; which ap- 
pear upon Diftillation : And from feme of them I my felf have fre- 
quently feparated greater quantities than will be eafily credited. It 
would wafte more time and paper, than I am willing to lofe,and re- 
quire more patience in the Reader than the Subjeft deferves,fI]ould 
i relate or particularlyenumerate the peculiar Senfible and Medici- 
nal properties,whereby the Salts are difcriminated,\\ hich phe feve- 
ral forc-mention'd Subftances do afFord.1 ffiall thcref )re at prefent 
only fuggefl-, what in my apprehenfion renders them fo multifari- 
oufiy different from each otherjand then difcover,Ho w they may be 
reduced. 
