Corollaries.
1. Mercury, that has been 61 times distilled and shaken, and turned into the afore described Powder, returns by Fire alone into its first Form.
2. Of sharp and penetrating, it becomes very mild.
3. Of very black, it comes to resemble pure Looking-Glass, with a Silver Brightness.
4. Of a consistent Powder, it becomes very fluid.
5. In these three Operations it remains the same in itself; in the mean time it alters its Appearance under various Disguises.
6. The Taste and sharp Power are wonderfully changed in the Mercury, by Motion alone, by Fire alone.
7. In the mean time there arises, from these Operations, out of the Quicksilver, a small Quantity of fix’d Mercury.
8. The black (Spot) was no Dreg, or any Thing foreign, and so separated from the Mercury.