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THe Amalgamated Mass, espoused or joyned very intimately by a due Marriage, I put into a Crucible, and into a Furnace of Sand for half an hour, but so that it might not sublime; then I take it out, and strongly grind it; then I put it again in a Crucible, and in the Fur∣nace, and after a quarter of an hour or
thereabouts, I grind it again, and I make the Mortar hot, by this means the Amal∣gama begins to be clean, and to cast forth a great deal of Powder: then I put it in the Crucible again, and to the Fire as be∣fore, for a convenient time, so that it be not sublimed, otherwise the greater the Fire is, the better it is; so continually putting it in the Fire, and continually grinding it, till almost all the Powder doth wholly disappear, then I wash it, and the Faeces are easily cast out, and the Amalgama becomes intire without any Heterogeneity; then I wash it with Salt, and again do heat it and grind it: this I repeat to the full cleansing it from all manner of Faeces.