JO Vegetdhle StdUcks. 
lame with that of common water; nor 
did I find many air bubbles in it, when placed 
in the exhaufted receiver, which I expefted 
to have found ; but when referved in open 
viols, it ftinks fooner than common water ; 
an argument that it is not pure water, but has 
fome heterogeneous mixtures with it. 
I put alfo a large Sun-flower full blown, 
and as it was growing, into the head of a 
glafs-ftill, and put its roftrum into a bottle, 
by which means there diftilled a good quan- 
tity of liquor into the bottle. It will be 
very eafy in the fame manner to colleft the 
perfpirations of fweet feented Flowers , tho' 
the liquor will not long retain its grateful 
odor, but ftink in few days. 
This experiment would be very proper 
to begin the learned Boerhaaves clear and 
very rational chymical proceffes with, as be- 
ing a degree more Ample than his firft pro- 
cefs , the diftillation in a cold Hill : For this 
is unditturbed nature's own method of diftil- 
ling. 
Experiment XVIII. 
In order to find out what ftores of moi- 
fture 
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