Natural. Magick. Doo-^18.

Chap. III.

How to part wine from water it it mingled with,

F Rom these I shall easily shew two things, that a heavy body shut up in a Glass ves-sel, having the mouth of it put within a lighter liquid body , they will mutuallygive place , the lighter will ascend the hcavior will descend, and that without anyhindrance one of the other, which I shall demonstrate from the former principals.Let the Glass be turned downwards, and full of water, be, A B, the water is beaviorthan the wine : Let the mouth of it B, be put into the vessel C D, that is full of wine.These are bodies that will mutually yield one to the other as I shewed. I say thewater will descend into the vessel C D, and the wine will ascend into the vessel A B,where the water was before. For the water, because it was contains in the vesselA B, it being heavy, presseth the wine in the vessel C D, that is lighter; and becausethere is no body between them, the water descends on one side into the vesselC D, and the wine ascends on the other side into the vessel A B. Now if the winebe red, that you may fee the difference of their colours, you shall fee the wine ascendthrough the middle of the water, as far as the bottom of the upper vessel that is putdownward into the other, and the water to descend hastily to the bottom of thevessel C D, and one descends as low as the other rise th high ; and if the liquors can-not be seen distinguished, yet one goes without any hindrance of the other, andwithout mingling, into its own place; and it will be a pleasant sight to behdld thewine going up, and the water falling down j and when they rest, they will be sowell parted, that not the least wine can remain with the water, nor water with thewine. Wherefore, if you put into a Hogshead full of wine, a long neck’d Glass fullof water, in a short time the vessel turned downwards will be full of wine, and thewater will go down into the Hogshhad, By this any man may easily conjecture

How to part water from wim%

because oft-times Country people and Vintagers use deceit, and bring wine min-gled with water, to be sold to the Merchant: we may easily prevent their craft bythis Art. Let there be underneath a vessel filled with wine, that is mixed with wa-ter, and we would separate the water from the wine: But first there must be a ves-sel that can receive all the wine, that is mingled in the other vessel; and if we knownot the quantity, we must conjecture at it, how much it may be, of something less':then fill the said vessel with water, and set it with the mouth downwards on the othervessel, that is full of wine and water,mingled together; and let the upper part of thevessel turned downwards, touch the upper part of the lower liquour , that no Airmay enter, for then the water will presently descend into the vessel underneath,and the lighter part of the mingled liquor will ascend, and the water will sink down;and if it be all wine , it will all ascend , no wine will stay with the water ; if anything stay behind, you must know that so much water was mingled with the wine,which may easily be known by the smell and taste, is you do it as it should be done.Then take a vessel thatjWill hold more of the same liquor, and put it into a vessel un-derneath, rill it takes it all in, whence by the proportion 6f the wine ascended,and of the water,, any man may know easily how much water is mingled with thewine. But for convenience, let the Vial that shall hold the water be of aroundbelly, and the holet*ot-vpry great, and let the vessel under, that Contains the wine,have a narrow mouth, that the upper round mouth may the better joyn with theundermost, and no Air come in. But because it siappeneth oft, that the upper Ball,when it, hath drank, all. the wine, the wine will not fill it, and,wel would partthe water from the wjna ; take therefore the round Glass in your hand y andturri kabout with the mouth upwards , then will the wine presently tuio.about and comeuppermost, which may by a tongue laid in, be all call'd forth. Be careful to see whenthe wine is all drawn our, remove the tongue, and the water will remain pure.

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