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How to rectifie Spirits.

You muſt ſet them in the Sun in glaſſes well ſtopped, and half filled, being ſet in ſand to the third part of their height that the water waxing hot by the heat of the Sun may ſeparate it ſelf from the flegm mixed therewith, which will be performed in twelve or fifteen dayes. There is another better way to doe this, which is to diſtill them again in Balneo with a gentle fire, or if you will put them into a retort furniſhed with its receiver, and ſet them upon cryſtall or iron bowles, or in an iron morter directly oppoſite to the beams of the Sun, as you may learn by theſe inſuing ſigns.

A Retort with its receiver ſtanding upon Cryſtall bowles juſt oppoſite to the Sun-beams.

Another Retort with its receiver ſtanding in a Marble or Iron Mortar, directly oppoſite to the Sun.

1. Shews the Retort.
2. The Receiver.
3. The Cryftall Bowles.

1. Shews the Retort.
2. The Marble or Iron Mortar.
3. The receiver.