Book 3 . The Rofie Crucian Crowfi, i j

CHAP. IIL

7he Crsciiky the Furnace^ the Hole in the Top
of the Furr^aee^ the Tongue Sy the Coals.

LEc the Furnace be I>> the p\ict filled with
Coles E, whereunco put fire and when the'
Coals are well burnt j fo that they give a clear
flame and fire, cake your Crucible A, well anailed
that it break not with the fuddain heat , and puc
therein three ounces cf filed Leadj having twelve
ounces of Mctchtj fublimate well ground ? and
Salt Armoniack fix ounces mixed togetherj which
puc upon the filings of Lead into the Crumble
A ; and when the fire is ftrong and glowing hoci
take your Tongs C> and prefently take up your
Crucible? and put it in B 3 the hole in the top of
the Furnace till you hear a great noife and buz-
zing , then fo foon as you can ( leaft the Quick-
filver flic away with the fpirits ) take away the
Crucible with the matter therein? and fet it in afi
earthen difh filled with afties to cool , and when
it is cold (hike the lower part of the Crucible? fa
chat the matter of the Lead may fall into an
earthen difii? and you fhall find your Lead con-
verted into Quick-filver.

This Crucible and Furnace is at large chara<^e-
red in the Holy Gnlde.

This work is to be reiterated with new fpirits

till you have a fufficient quantity of Quick-fil-

ver^ with which proceed as foUowethto precipi-

B catc

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tace this Quick-lilver 3 thactrom a ipirk u may
be converted into a fixed body by fixation.

Take of this Quick - filver fo much as you
pleafe , and put it to precipitate in a round glafs
well luted i and fet it in alhes to the toy^f ths
glafs : yet let us ftay here a while> that your un-
lianding may be the more enlightened.

Therefore underiknd that the intention of
this work is to fix the fpidC) which may fooner be
done with the fpirit of a fixed body, which be-
fore was Homogeneal with the body , and which
of its ofvo,aa.cuEe,defirak.co joyn again with its
body. ■ ,_ r-'Vv<'^■hi^\■^^^^

Therfofe nature requirerh chat flie may be hel-
ped by^Arc in this work* to which the Artift con-
fentingj be admini^reth thereto the pure and de-
fired metal, which it^lighrerh to adhere unto;
which inetal is Golds which is thusprepareda that
icbe fooner parted by theQiiick-filver andftick
thereunta

Take as much pure Gold as you pleafe, and
diffolveic in atjn^ regis mixed with equal part of
Mfctum titerrimfim 3 ot Lac vtrgimsi then fet it
tGdigofttbe fpace of i day > then put your dif-
fplutionintp an Alimbeck, and fee it Balneo, to
diftill away the water as dry as you can, and do
thus three: times , and': the third time dirtill it in
a{hes,.tha£the Sale Armoniack may f ublime.Then
putdiftilled Vinegar upon the matter remaining*
and after it hath i^obd three days in Balneo, dilHll
the Vinegar away in afhes, that all the fubftance
of the Salt Armoniack may fublime : and do thus
three times, always pufting in new Vinegar) un-
till the Oyl of the dilfolved Gold remain in the

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