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i mingled with the Spirit of Winey\ little Spirit of Sal Armenia c\, 
made(as I have elfewhere delivered)by the 
] help ok ghicklme : which Spirit I choofe, f ^ e vftffnefsof 
\ becaufe /though it abounds in a Salt not f*g tm **> m °' 
Sowr<lbutUrinous ; yet I never obferved it 
\ (how ftrong foever I made it)to coagulate Spirit ofWine.The 
circumftance is 3 that I uftially found it convenient, to let 
I the little Animals ,(I meant to imbalme , lie for a little while in 
ordinary Spirit of Wine, to walh off the loofer filth, that is wont 
to adhere to the Chick , when taken out of the Egge 5 and 
then, having put either the fame kind of Spirit, or better upon 
the fame Bird, I fuffer'd it to foak fome hours (perhaps fome 
daies, pro re nata ) therein, that the Liquor, having drawn as it 
were what Tincture it could, the Fatu being remov’d into 
more pure and well dephlegnfd Spirit of Wine, might not 
dif colour it, but leave italmoft as limpid, as before it was 
put in. 
An Extraffi 
I Of a Letter i fent lately to Sir Robert Moray out of Vir- 
ginia , concerning an unufual way of propagating Mul- 
berry trees there , for the better improvement of the Silk- 
Work ; together with fome other particulars^ tending to 
the good of that Plantation. 
I am difappointed at thisrime of fome Rarities of Minerals, 
Mettals, and Scones; bur you may have them any other time, 
las conveniently, &c. 1 have planted here already ten thou- 
fand Mulberry trees ; and hope, within two or three years, to 
reap good fills, of them. I have planted them in a way unufual 
there, which advances them two or three years growth, in ref- 
pedfc of their being fown in feed : And they are now , at writing 
hereof all holding good, although this has been a very long 
sand bitter winter with us, much longer and colder, than ever 
I did find it in Scotland or England . I intend likewife to plant 
Ee 2 • them 
