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rednefs that looked like Blood was communicated to the 
Water, neither did there break forth the leaf! Air bubble 
out of that mingled Liquor 1 took moreover a lit- 
tle of the faid Water, that was inclinable to a reddilh 
colour, and dropt fome of it upon fix feveral places of a 
Glafs Plate, in order to obferve what Salt Particles might 
be Coagulated in the exhaled Liquor. -I obferved in 
the faid Liquor, moft of which did evaporate, that be- 
fides the Salt Particles there remain’d a great deal of a 
Coagulated Matter, in which I could difeover no figure. 
I perceived likewife abundance of exceeding fntall 
Salt Particles, which were moftly of an exaft fquare fi- 
gure, and fome few were long fquares, with four Right 
Angles 5 fome of thole Salt Particles were broad in the 
middle, and pointed at both ends $ but where a great 
many of them were Coagulated together, their figures 
were irregular -l obferved likewife, that where the 
Water had lain a little time together, it was not a i toge- 
ther exhaled, but left a Balfamous Matter behind it — — 
I put fome of the faid Seed into Water, in order to (often 
the Skin of it, that I might DitTeft it the eafier 5 and 
having accordingly open’d feveral of them, I took out 
the Plant, in which, tho it was no bigger than a fmall 
grain of Sand, I could perceive two Leaves, and that 
part of it which was to be the Root and Body - —-— It 
was moreover affirmed, that the Qyl of Singelm or Sin- 
gelj, is efteem’d a good foftner, and given to lying-in 
Women, and other perfons that are in pain, as alfo to 
Children, with or without other Ingredients,, 
The Seed, of which alfo 1 had a little, is about the 
bignefs of the aforemention’d Seed, but fomething long- 
er 1 had moreover fome few Seeds named Canjk, 
of which this is the Defcription- -This Seed is ufed 
by the Mahometans , being grownd fmall and infufed in 
Water, which will make them as drunk as Wine does 
others : If a perfon that is not us’d to it (hould take but 
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