been poured off: Then set the edulcorated gold into the Sun or another warm place for to dry. But you must take heed that it have no greater heat than the heat of the Sun is in _May_ or _June_, else it would kindle or take fire, and (especially if there be much of it) give such a thunderclap, that the hearing of those that stand by, would be much endangered thereby, and therefore I advice you to beware, and cautious in the handling of it, lest you run the hazard both of your gold and of your health by your over-sight. There is also another way for to edulcorate your precipitated gold, _viz._ thus, Take it together with the salt liquor, and pour it into a funnel lined with brown Paper laid double, and so let the water run through into a glass vessel, whereupon the funnel doth rest, and pour on other warm water, and let it run through likewise; do this again and again, until that the water come from it as sweet as it was poured on. Then take the Paper with the edulcorated gold calx, out of the funnel, lay it, together with the paper, upon other brown paper lying severally double together, and the dry paper will attract all the moistness out of the gold calx, so that the gold will be dryed the sooner. Which being dry, take it out of the filtering paper, and put it into another that is clean, and so lay it aside, and keep it for use. The salt water that came through by filtering, may be evaporated in a little glass body (standing in sand) to the dryness of the salt, which is to be kept from the air: for it is likewise useful in Physick; because some vertue of the nature of gold is yet hidden in it: though one would not think it, in regard that it is so fair, bright and clear, which for all that may be observed by this, that when you melt it in a clean covered crucible or pot, and pour it afterward into a clean Copper morter or bason (being first made warm) you get a purple-coloured salt, whereof 6, 9, 12, to 24. grains given inwardly, doth cleanse and purge the stomach and bowels, and especially it is useful in feavers and other diseases of the stomach. But in the crucible, out of which the salt hath been poured, you will find an earthy substance, which hath separated it self from the salt, and looketh yellowish; this being taken out and melted in a little crucible by a strong fire, turneth to a yellow glass, which is impregnated with the Tincture of Gold, and doth yield a grain of Silver in every regard like unto common cupellated silver, wherein no gold is found, which is to be admired: because that all Chymists are of opinion, that no _Aqua regia_ can dissolve silver which is true. The question therefore is, from whence or how this silver came into the salt, since no _Aqua Regia_ doth dissolve silver? whereupon some perchance may answer, that it must have been in the oyl of Tartar, in regard that many do believe, that the salts likewise may be turned into metals, which I do not