our, and he has feen that they have worked with the 
fame Energy as the moft acute Hexagone Stoms of the 
Salt of Pepper, of Girnation RofeSj of Mcchoacao, of 
Coleworts, of Cocumbers, &c. 
20. From the aforefaid Obfervations, the' you can- 
not eftablifh a certain Rule, you may neverthelefi con« 
jedure, not without fome Reafon, Firff, That the Salt 
drawn from the Afnes of Herbs^ Flowers, and of Fruits, 
donotconftry^ the Virtue, and that Faculty which 
Phyficians believe the Herbs, Flowers, Fruits, &c. are 
endowed with. Secondly^ You may very near be cer- 
tain of the Proportion of Afhes rifing from each Species 
of Vegetables, and of the (Quantity of Salt which is after- 
ward to be drawn from them ; and it will not be un- 
grateful to the Reader that I put here the Differences by 
me computed (of the Afhes, after the rate of i oo Pounds 
of Vegetables, and of the Salts after the Rate of One 
Pound of Afties) and depofed according to the Order of 
the Excefles. 
A talk of the Afhes which i oo ib give. 
Red Onions 
Gourds 
Cucumbers 
Pine Nut-Sheils 
Yellow Sanders 
Bindweeds 
Laurel Leaves 
Roots of White Hellebore 
Other Leaves of Laurel 
Endive 
Wheat Flower 
Water Melons / 
I 5 9 gr. 
CO 04 04 00 00 
00 06 00 00 00 
00 09 00 00 00 
01 00 00 00 00 
01 00 04 00 00 
01 or ox 02 00 
01 oz 00 00 00 
01 04 00 00 00 
01 07 04 ox 10 
ox 00 00 00 00 
ox ox OJ 01 00 
QX. 06 00 ©O 00 
