But when I have told you all this, I am far from
thinking I have told all that such an Inquisitive Person as your self would
know, for I presume you would desire as well as I to learn (at least) why
the Particles of the _Mercury_, of the Tartar, and of the Acid Salts
convening together, should make rather an Orange Colour than a Red, or a
Blew, or a Green, for 'tis not enough to say what I related a little
before, that divers Mercurial Solutions, though otherwise made, would yield
a Yellow precipitate, because the Question will recurr concerning them; and
to give it a satisfactory answer, is, I freely acknowledge, more than I
dare as yet pretend to.
But to confirm my conjecture about the Chymical reason of our Experiment, I
may add, that as I have (_viz._ pag. 34th. of this Treatise) elsewhere (on
another occasion) told you, with Saline Liquors of another kind and nature
than Salt of Tartar, (namely, with Spirit of Urine, and Liquors of kin to
that) I can make the _Mercury_ precipitate out of the first simple Solution
quite of another Colour than that hitherto mention'd; Nay, if instead of
altering the Precipitating liquor, I alter'd the Texture of the Sublimate
in such a way as my Notions about Salt requir'd, I could produce the same
_Phaenomenon_.
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