haste, and willing to dispatch what remains. And we have already said of
it, as much as is requisite to our present purpose.

_EXPERIMENT XLIV._

It may (_Pyrophilus_) somewhat contribute towards the shewing how much some
Colours depend upon the less or greater mixture, and (as it were,)
Contemperation of the Light with shades, to observe, how that sometimes the
number of Particles, of the same Colour, receiv'd into the Pores of a
Liquor, or swiming up and down in it, do seem much to vary the Colour of
it. I could here present you with particular instances to show, how in many
(if not most) consistent Bodyes, if the Colour be not a Light one, as
White, Yellow, or the like, the closeness of parts in the Pigments makes it
look Blackish, though when it is display'd and laid on thinly, it will
perhaps appear to be either Blew, or Green, or Red. But the Colours of
consistent Pigments, not being those which the Preamble of this Experiment
has lead you to expect Examples in, I shall take the instances I am now to
give you, rather from Liquors than Dry Bodyes. If then you put a little
fair Water into a cleer and slender Vial, (or rather into one of those
pipes of Glass, which we shall by and by mention;) and let fall into it a
few drops of a strong Decoction or Infusion of _Cochineel_, or (for want of
that) of _Brazil_; you may see the tincted drops descend like little Clouds
into the Liquor; through which, if, by shaking the Vial, you diffuse them,
they will turn the water either of a Pinck Colour, or like that which is
wont to be made by the washing of raw flesh in fair Water; by dropping a
little more of the Decoction, you may heighten the Colour into a fine Red,
almost like that which ennobles Rubies; by continuing the affusion, you may
bring the Liquor to a kind of a Crimson, and afterwards to a Dark and
Opacous Redness, somewhat like that of Clotted Blood. And in the passage of
the Liquor from one of these Colours to the other, you may observe, if you