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titn,and acquaint him herewuh : I have fomerimes thought 
o have fen t him an additional Lift of Local Words ^ which 
the before-mentioned Goat (Eboracenfebus Goit) puts me ia 
mind of ^ the form ci the ShoewdiS, much hke thofe tound 
witii feme Urns at lOrhy Jhore in Wejimorland^ as de- 
fcriby inthe PbiLTranC No 158. 
Yl' OhferVations on the Clafs of Sweet Tafles^ made by 
comparing the Tafes of Sweet Plants ivith Monfieur 
U Emery Chymical Jnalyfs of them^ in 'his TreU'- 
tife of Drugs J by Sir John Floyer. 
IObfer ve that by our Tafte we may difcern all the Chy* 
mical Principles in Plants before their diftillation, and 
that for want of a due obfervation of their Taftes, Mr 
V Ermry has not fully defcribed the Chymical Principles 
which Plants do yield in Diftillation. 
All Watery Plants ftiew their Phlegm as well to the 
Tafte as in l3iftillation^.^ and in all dty woody. Taftes we 
obferve the Earth, as well as we can by the Chyniical 
Analyfis. \ . 
By die Mucilage and Gurnmynefs, or Oily Tafte , 
we diftinguifti the Oyl of Plants, as well as by Diftilla- 
tion. 
The Aromatical Smell (hews us/the volatility of the Oyl 
and Salt of Plants, and by the fcetidnefs we alfo know that 
the Oyl and Salt are in a volatile ftate.> . 
By the acrimony and pungency w^ know that there is a 
Volatile Salt in Plants, and by their burning tafte we find 
: there is a Gorrofive Salt in them^ 
By a crude rough Acidity we obferve the Tartar, or 
effential Salt of Plants 5 but if the Acidity be of a Vinous 
fmell, we obferve that \i% of middle ftate of Digeftion, 
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