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fotne confiderable Thicknefs, the Flame was not feen 
thorough fo brightly as before, but the whole ap- 
peared of a light Azure, or Sky-colour, which the 
Doctor liken’d to the Formation of the Firma- 
ment : The Flores fublimed he liken’d to Snow. 
Then the Bell being drawn up again, and the Gol- 
den Bafons taken out, there remained in the fmaller 
Bafon an almoft fix’d red Earthy or Caput mortuum . 
On theAdmifiion of the cold Air, the Snow [ Flores ] 
began foon to melt as per Deliquium ; which he 
compared to the Formation of Dew and Rain 5 
and as it dripp’d from the Infide of the Bell upon 
the Concave Plate A B, it ran through the Hole in 
the Middle of it C, by the Tube C D, into the Re- 
ceiver EEFj where it was collected in Form of a 
clear tranfparent Liquor, fomewhat clammy like Gum- 
water, which he called tidier. 
Some of the Flores mixed with any combuftible 
Matter, as common Olive-Oil, £?c. and put into a 
Golden Bafon fet over a Lamp, fired immediately, 
and flamed like Phofphorus, being, in reality, Phof- 
phorus regenerated, and burnt away to a Subftance 
like Tar. 
Some of the clammy Water was put into a Gold- 
en Bafon fet on a Lamp, and by augmenting the Fire 
per gradus, in about a quarter of an Hour’s time, 
when all the airy Bubbles were exhaled, the Liquor 
became hard like Gum, which had been diifolved 
in Water, and was nearly dry, and perfectly tranf- 
parent ; Phis bewailed Fitrum Molle. 
Next Day he made fome more of this Fitrum 
Molle, which he put into a Crucible heated red hot, 
and then fet it in a Wind-Furnace, and gave it the 
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