To the Reader.
In the mean time if what I know may adde
to thy experience, thou haſt it freely. And if I ſhal ſee that this Treatiſe of Diſtillation paſſe with acceptance amongſt the Artiſts of this Nation, I ſhal hereafter gratifie them for their good wil with two other parts of Chymiſtrie, viz.
Sublimation, and Calcination; and I hope
this wil be an occaſion to ſet the more expert Artiſts on work, for the communicating their experiences to the world. One thing (courteous Reader) let me deſire thee to take notice of, viz. whereas every proceſſe is ſet down plain, yet all of them muſt be proceeded in ſecundum Artem Alchymiſtæ, (which Art indeed is obtained by experience) and therefore many that work according to the bare proceſſe effect not what they intend; & the reaſon is, becauſe there was ſome art of the Alchymiſt wanting. To
conclude, if thou knoweſt more or better
things then theſe be candid, and impart them; (confidering that I wrote theſe for them that know them not) if not, accept of the endeavours of thy Friend
