204 Mr. j. Davy’s Account of some Experiments, &c. 
to be applicable. M. Proust has observed the decomposition 
of calomel by boiling muriatic acid, and its conversion into 
corrosive sublimate and running mercury. Now calomel being 
insoluble in muriatic acid, these changes evidently appear to 
be owing to the strong attraction of the acid, for corrosive 
.sublimate, which has been already shewn to exist. 
