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with the Solution of the Infernall Salt & to make it dry the sooner you may Incorporate it with sifted bone=ashes & when it is perfectly dry draw it over with a strong fire & if need be severall Cohobations, In like maner you may imbibe the fixt Salt of the Homogeneous Menstruum with as much of the dissolvd volatile Salt or Sp: of the same as the fixt salt will retaine & Conjunction being made in the open aire the united Salts may be drawne over with Due Cohobation as formerly

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4) Take of Nitre & Allum ana & (without terra figulina or any such thing) draw over an Aqua fortis which rectifye[altered from 'rectify'd'] first per se to separate the Flegme & then the remaineing Liquor from halfe its weight of Decrepitated Sea-salt. Then in this thus doubly rectify'd Aqua fortis dissolve as much Antimonie as you can And on the Solution poure store of warm water which will precipitate a greenish Substance

5) Take Sulphur & melt it with as great a heat as you can without fireing it & immediatly poure it into water out of which takeing it againe melt it as before & poure it againe into fresh water this operation repeat till the Sulphur (haveing lost its Salt in the water) become soft almost like Butter then with Sp: of wine draw it over in a Retort that it may ascend in the forme of an oyle

6) Take sope & dissolve it in faire water & let it dry againe in the open aire then moisten it againe & let it dry as before & soe proceed by alternate Imbibitions & Exucations till the whole masse receive['c' inserted] a new ferment.