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and others whom Nature's bounty gratifies with a more lusty and delicious Diet.

'I confess I have been the more confirmed in this fancy, since I have often seen a Friend of mine, with a Natural and Facile Έχειρια convert the greater part of Peter into a Salt so like the Volatile Salt of Urine, that they are scarce to be distinguished by smell or taste, and yet he adds nothing to it that can possibly be suspected to participate of that Nature: But indeed all Volatile Salts are so alike, that it is not easy to distinguish them in any respect.

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