CHAP. IIII.
TAke the vessel wherein is the coloured water, and set it in Balneo with a Limbeck, and receiver well luted, and distill all the water with a boyling Balneo, and let the matter be well dried and coole, then take away the Alimbeck, and let the ves∣sell remaine in Balneo, and pour on the water again upon the matter, and make a fire, and set a dish upon the mouth of the vessell, and let it stand so in Balneo three daies, every day mo∣ving it with a spattle of wood three or four times, then let it coole, and be taken out and be strained. Then take a clean vessel, and softly pour out that which is clear into it, and up∣on the feces straightwaies pour on fresh distilled water, stir∣ring it about with a woodden ladle, and let it stand to clear one day, and the feces which remain put unto the first feces. Then take a vessell, and set it in a boyling Balmeo untill it be dry, and reiterate this work untill there remaine no feces in the bottome of the vessell, so shall you have the pure element of Fire: and the element of the Aire also must be so often distilled, untill there remain nothing in the bottome: and in this sort you shall have the pure Element. Separate then the water from the fire, and let it dry, so shall you have a clear shi∣ning matter like to Camphore: keep the fire well in a glasse, and the aire with the water in another glasse well closed, untill you have your earth prepared.