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Experiment I. 
With the acid of guaiac wood. 
The cryflals of the neutral fait of guaic wood 
were long and final], and fhot like the rays of the 
fun from a centre, and appeared as reprefented in 
fig. 1 8. 
Experiment II. 
With the acid of fir wood. 
The neutral fait of fir had a very different ap- 
pearance; there were no fuch diftindt cryflals as 
in the other; what were to be obferved ieemed to 
be long and fmall, to come in many places from 
points, and to go in fomewhat of a circular man- 
ner, or to deferibe a curve, and appeared as repre- 
fented by fig. 19. 
Experiment III. 
With the acid of honey. 
It has been a doubt among naturalifts, whether 
honey fhould be ranked among the vegetable or 
the animal fubftances. Moll chemifls feem to 
think it fhould be ranked among the vegetable, and 
look upon it as made up principally of the juices of 
plants collected by the bees; but, however that mat- 
ter may be, the following is an exadt account of 
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