43© Dr. Wollaston on a new Metal, 8c c. 
fully confirmed that this persuasion, arising from uniform expe- 
rience, was well founded ; for, if we consider the difficulty of 
producing even an imperfect imitation of palladium, the failure 
of all attempts to resolve it into any known metals, the facility 
of separating it from any mixed solution of those which it has 
been supposed to contain, as well as the number and distinctness 
of its characteristic properties, I think we must class it with 
those bodies which we have most reason to consider as simple 
metals. 
