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be compounded with all the 9 following; the Second, with all the 8 
following 5 and fo, the reft: which together make 45. But if the 
fame Tex be compounded by Threes together 5 they produce no le(s 
than 120 Variations: asby the Table made of them all doth plainly 
appear. 
cons §. Some few of the ConjunGions therein fet down, may not 
be found actually exiftent in Nature. The abatement of which, will 
be much more than compenfated two ways. Firf?,by the other six 
Species of Simple Tafts, which are alfo fometimes compounded; And by 
other more complex Conjunéions, as of many Quadruples, and per- 
haps {ome Quintuple or Sextuple ones. ‘Thus far of the Simple Species, 
and Conjunttions of Tafts. 
27. §. THE DEGREES of Tafts are alfo numerous; and 
each Species, in every Conjunition, capable of Variation herein. For 
the more accurate obferving whereof, it will be beft, To take thofe 
Bodies, whofe Tafts are, as near as may be, the fame in Specie: and 
that thofe be firft tafted, which are lefs {trong 5 whereby the true De- 
gree will be more precifely taken. 
28. §. The Lufés of Bodies will thus appear to be varied, in moft 
Species unto Five Degrees and in {ome of them, unto Tex. So the 
Root of Turmerich, is bitter in the Firft Degrees of Gentian, in the 
Tenth. The Root of Carduus Benedius, is Hot in the Firft Degree 5 
the Green Pods or Seed-Cafes of Clematis peregrina, in the Texth. So 
that, allowing fome to vary under Five; yet by a moderate eftimate, 
we may reckon every Species, one with another, to be varied by at 
leaft Five Degrees, Which being added to the feveral Species of Tafts, 
in all the Treble Conjunttions of the aforefaid Table, come to 1800 {en- 
fible and defineable Variations of Taft. And thefe are the Diverfities 
of Tafte, with refpett to the Sen/ation it felf. 

CHAP. IT. 
Of th DURATION and feveral TERMES 
of Tatts, 
=y HE next general way of dinguifhing Tajs, is by 
their Duration, and their Terms, or their Motion 
of Intenfion and Reviffion from one Degree to 
another. For there are many Ts#s, which have 
their Motions analogousto thofe of Diféafés ; and 
) by thofe may be diftinguifhed in the {ame manner. 
For as of Difeafés, fo of Tasts, there are Four 
Times, as Phyficians call them, or Terms of Mo- 
tions {c. Principium, Augmentum, Status, &» Declinatio. 
2. §. For the diftin@ obferving of which, thofe Bodies which are 
hard, and fo their taftable parts lefs eafily extractable by the Tongue, 
fhould be reduced to a fine Powder : otherwife, the true meafure of the 
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