Cankring, and Death, and maketh
the same, as it were, immortal,
against all torture of Fire, and Art,
and transfers it into the Virgin-purity
of Gold; it requires only
heat.

The same Helmont, Of the Tree
of Life.

I am compelled to believe the
Aurifick, and Argentifick Stone;
because at several distinct: times,
with my own hand, made projection
of one Grane of this Powder,
upon some thousands of Granes of
Argentvive hot in a Crucible; and
in the presence of our principal
friends, the business, with a pleasing
admiration, succeeded well in the Fire:
as our books promise Thee,
&c.

The same.

He, who first gave me the Powder,
had at least, so much thereof,
as would be sufficient for transmuting
two hundred thousand
pound weight of Metal, into
Gold, &c..

The same.

For he gave to me not so much
as half a grane of that Powder,
and with that were transmuted nine
ounces, and three quarters of an ounce
of Argetitvive. That was
given me one Evening by a strange
Friend, &c

The same

So also it is written, that sixty
years since, Alexander Scotus, made
projection of that kinde, in the
trust: famous City of Colonia and
Hanovia, &c..

I cannot in this place over-pass,
some Examples worthy of note,
touching the possibility of
Transmutation.

Read the following true Extract
out of an Epistle written by Doctor
Kufflerus.

Kufflerus: Artist, I found-in my
own Laboratory, an Aqua-fortis.
Secondly, I again found another
in the Laboratory, Caroli de Roy;
this Aqua-Fortis I poured upon the
Calx of Sol, prepared of Gold, in
the Vulgar manner, and after the
third Cohobation, it sublimed the
Tincture of Gold with it self in the
Neck of the Retort; this Tincture
I mixed with Silver, precipited in
the vulgar manner, and I saw that
one ounce of the sublimed Tincture
of Gold, with ordinary Flux in a
Crucible, had transmuted one
ounce, and halfe of the two ounces
of precipitate Silver, into the best
Gold: but a third part of the Silver
yet remaining, was a white and
fixed Gold: the other two parts
thereof were perfect Silver, fixed
in every examen o