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cc^nvey along with them fotne entire unbroken Oily pairt$,or receive 
them that are capable of being elevated with the fame degree of 
heat by which they were raifed j thefe mixtures will retain fomc- 
what of the moft remarlcable differences in Taft, and fometimes O- 
dour, u hereby the Vegetables themfelves cn their Oyls were dif- 
criminar^d: Butupoa long frequent Digeftions, or reiterated Di- 
ftiliacions, thefe grofs Oleaginous particles are cither fubdivided^ 
and thereby becdiiK: Vinous fpirits, or that gentle equal degree of 
hear, which is fufficieqt to elevate the more aftive volatil Vinous 
fpirits, cannot raife the more fluggifliOyles; (othat the Rcful ts 
are pure fingle homogeneous Vinous fpirits, which, whatfoever che 
Goncretes were from whence they were derived, though vaftly dif- 
fering from each other/ as alfo their Oyls, out of which the Vinous 
fpiri IS were more iimiiediately produced yet the Spirits them- 
felves thus purifieJare in Outward appearance fimilar, andper^ 
haps as perfedly fimpleand homogeneous, as moft fubftances in the 
Univerfe. 
What I have delivered, is further confirmed by a more vifible 
palpable Converfion of Vegetable Oyles into Vinous Spirits;which 
I have efFefled in many^ and, by Analogous operations , I pref ame, 
the fame change may be fuperinduced upon Pour upon an 
- ounce of fome common vegetable Eflential Oy 1 two or three pound 
of Vinous fpirit perfeftly dephlegmed 5 (the greater quantity,the 
more fpcedily is the tranfmutation or change performed:)The Spi- 
rit will immediately, upon fimple agitation, abforbe, devour, or 
diflbive the Oyl, which by long digeftion or reiterated cohobations 
may be totally devefted of all thofe peculiar properties, it en- 
joyed whi I ft an Oyl, and become perfeftly Vinous, never to be fe- 
parated in a diftind form, or by any known dUcritica^l fign or arti- 
fice,to be difcrimlnated from what hath, in all appearance, conver- 
ted or tranfinuted it into its own nature, or,at leaft,into a fubftacce 
fo like it felf as to deferve the f^me denomination. 
I (hall here in (lead of a Conclufion impart unto you two very 
odd furprifingExperiment:^, which have feme, though remote, re- 
lation un^o the preceding Difcovcries concerning Alcalizate and 
Volati'eSa'ts, 
Having procured a great quantity of P(f/';;-a(}ies,[ extrafted their 
Salt after the common method with water ; moft of the water being 
evaporated, f obtain'd fevera! pounds of Salt, the greatcft pare 
whereof being firft dried, I expofed the remainder unto the Air, 
that it might arreft fome of the Vapors flitting in the fame, and 
thereby 
