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anfwering this Purpofe, there may be alfo fome of- 
fenfive or ufeful Qualities annexed, it may not be 
amifs perhaps to review fome Part of the Materia 
medica for this End. 
I (hall add, that, befides this extraordinary Power 
in preferving Bodies, I have difcover'd in fome of 
thefe Subftances a fweetening or correcting Quality 
after Putrefaction had actually begun. But thefe Ex- 
periments I fhall lay before the Society fome other 
time 5 with a Table of the comparative Force of Sales, 
and fome further Remarks on the fame SubjeCt. 
N. B. Thefe Experiments will be continued in the 
next Number of thefe Tranfaffions. 
XVI. An attempt to explain an antientGreek 
infeription , ingraven upon a curious bronze 
cup with two handles , and publijhed with a 
draught of the cup by Dr. Pococke, in his 
Defcription of the Eaft, Vol. II. Part 2. 
pag. 207. By John Ward, Pr.Rhet. Grejh . 
and F. R. S. 
Read] une 287 | \HE diameter of the cup on the in* 
17a °‘ fide is about thirteen inches and a 
half, as near as I could take it from a copy of the 
infeription, which is placed round the upper fide 
of the rim. A draught of which is hereunto an- 
nexed, reduced to about two thirds of the fize (1) ; 
and 
(1) See Tab. II. Fig. 3; 
