FOOTNOTES:
[1] I have borrowed these illustrations of the alchemical, experimental method from M. Hoefer's "Histoire de la Chimie," quoted in the "Encyclopædia Brittanica," art. "Alchemy."
[2] "Ripley reviv'd: or an exposition upon Sir George Ripley's Hermetico-poetical works," by Eirenæus Philalethes. London, 1678.
[3] Browning's "Paracelsus."
