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A R S 25
Jaid feveral long-necked glafs bottles, filled with foot, a little
fea-falt, and the urine of cattle, well flopped.
Thefe are covered up with a body of clay and brick, all but
the necks, which lie open to the air; and then, the fire beino-
put into the oven, it is kept up for three days and three nights
fucceffively.
The phlegm of the materials contained-in the bottles being
thus exhaled by the heat of the fire, and the acids and alcaline
falts abounding therein being; thus brought together, near the
necks of the bottles, they coalefce, harden, and form a whitifh
mafs, which is the fal Ammoniac.
ARROGANCE, is painted in the perfon of a lady cloathed
m a green garment; with affes ears, holding under her left-
arm a peacock, and extending the right-arm, points with her
fore-finger.
Arrogance, afcribes to itfelf what is not its own, therefore,
it has the ears of an afs, for this vice proceeds from ftupidity
and ignorance ; the peacock intimates the putting a value upon
one'sfelf, and defpifing others.
ARSENIC, is a ponderous mineral fubftance, extremely
pauffic or corrofjve, to the degree of a violent poilon.
There are divers kinds of Arfenic, viz. yellow, or native red,
and cryftalline.
Native Arfenic, is of a yellow or orange colour ; whence it
is alfo called auripigmentum or orpirpent.
It is chiefly found in copper mines, in a kind of glebes or
ftones, of different fizes and figures.
As to the colour, though it is always yellow, yet admits of
(divers fhades and mixtures, as a golden-yellow, reddifh-yellow,
green-yellow, &c.
It is found to contain a fmall quantity of gold, but fo little as
not to quit the coft of feparating. Of this are prepared two
other forts of Arfenic, white and red.
Red Arfenic, called realgal, is only the native yellow, rubi-
fied by fire.
The white or cryftalline, is drawn from the yellow by fub-
limmg it with a portion of fea-falt.
White and yellow Arfenic, are alfo procurable from cobalt;
the method of which, as pra6fjfed in Hungary, is as follows :
The cobalt being reduced to powder, and the light fandy
part wafhed off by a current of water, what remains is put into
a furnace; the flame of which, pafiing over the powder, takes
the arfenical part along with it, in form of a fmoke ; which
being received by a chimney, and carried thence into a clofe
brick channel, flicks by the way to the fides, and is fcraped
Jaid feveral long-necked glafs bottles, filled with foot, a little
fea-falt, and the urine of cattle, well flopped.
Thefe are covered up with a body of clay and brick, all but
the necks, which lie open to the air; and then, the fire beino-
put into the oven, it is kept up for three days and three nights
fucceffively.
The phlegm of the materials contained-in the bottles being
thus exhaled by the heat of the fire, and the acids and alcaline
falts abounding therein being; thus brought together, near the
necks of the bottles, they coalefce, harden, and form a whitifh
mafs, which is the fal Ammoniac.
ARROGANCE, is painted in the perfon of a lady cloathed
m a green garment; with affes ears, holding under her left-
arm a peacock, and extending the right-arm, points with her
fore-finger.
Arrogance, afcribes to itfelf what is not its own, therefore,
it has the ears of an afs, for this vice proceeds from ftupidity
and ignorance ; the peacock intimates the putting a value upon
one'sfelf, and defpifing others.
ARSENIC, is a ponderous mineral fubftance, extremely
pauffic or corrofjve, to the degree of a violent poilon.
There are divers kinds of Arfenic, viz. yellow, or native red,
and cryftalline.
Native Arfenic, is of a yellow or orange colour ; whence it
is alfo called auripigmentum or orpirpent.
It is chiefly found in copper mines, in a kind of glebes or
ftones, of different fizes and figures.
As to the colour, though it is always yellow, yet admits of
(divers fhades and mixtures, as a golden-yellow, reddifh-yellow,
green-yellow, &c.
It is found to contain a fmall quantity of gold, but fo little as
not to quit the coft of feparating. Of this are prepared two
other forts of Arfenic, white and red.
Red Arfenic, called realgal, is only the native yellow, rubi-
fied by fire.
The white or cryftalline, is drawn from the yellow by fub-
limmg it with a portion of fea-falt.
White and yellow Arfenic, are alfo procurable from cobalt;
the method of which, as pra6fjfed in Hungary, is as follows :
The cobalt being reduced to powder, and the light fandy
part wafhed off by a current of water, what remains is put into
a furnace; the flame of which, pafiing over the powder, takes
the arfenical part along with it, in form of a fmoke ; which
being received by a chimney, and carried thence into a clofe
brick channel, flicks by the way to the fides, and is fcraped