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the Apparatus, when no more Matter would arife 
by means of the Sand-Heat. _ 
VI L 
By this Method I could increafe the Fire till the 
Bottom of the Retort was red-hot, without any Dan- 
ger of breaking my Recipients 5 a Contrivance which * 
may be ufeful in many chemical Proceffes. 
From the above-mentioffd Experiment we have 
evident Proof of the Proportions and Qualities of the 
feveral Principles, or conftitutive Parts of the muf- 
cular Fibres 5 and let no one be furprifed that the 
watery or phlegmatic Principle abounds, fo much as 
to be nearly Parts of the whole Mafs, fmce we 
know that dried Bones, and many other Things as 
unpromifmg, afford half their Weight of Water. , 
IX, 
That the Particles of Water are endued with a 
ftrongly attra&ing Power, and are highly ferviceable 
as a Band of Union in the Formation and Growth 
of every thing, animate and inanimate,- is not only 
manifeft from the great Quantity employed in the 
Growth of Animals and Vegetables, but alfo in our 
own manual Operations, fuch as making feveral 
Sorts of Glue, Paftes, Bricks, and fuch like, where 
the watery Particles prove a very durable and pow- 
erful Copula, and are not to be all of them feparated 
again. 
