colour of the Lake seem'd rather inferiour than otherwise to that of the
Plant, and in others it seem'd both very differing, and much worse; but
Writing this in a time and place where I cannot provide my self of Flowres
and other Vegetables to prosecute such Tryals in a competent variety of
Subjects, I am content not to be positive in delivering a judgment of this
way of Lakes, till Experience, or You, _Pyrophilus_, shall have afforded me
a fuller and more particular Information.

_Annotation III._

And on this occasion (_Pyrophilus_) I must here (having forgot to do it
sooner) advertise you once for all, that having written several of the
foregoing Experiments, not only in haste but at seasons of the year, and in
places wherein I could not furnish my self with such Instruments, and such
a variety of Materials, as the design of giving you an Introduction into
the History of Colours requir'd, it can scarce be otherwise but that divers
of the Experiments, that I have set down, may afford you some matter of new
Tryals, if you think fit to supply the deficiencies of some of them
(especially the freshly mention'd about Lakes, and those that concern
Emphatical Colours) which deficiencies for want of being befriended with
accommodations I could better discern than avoid.

_Annotation IV._

The use of Allom is very great as well as familiar in the Dyers Trade, and
I have not been ill pleas'd with the use I have been able to make of it in
preparing other pigments than those they imploy with Vegetable Juices. But
the Lucriferous practises of Dyers and other Tradesmen, I do, for Reasons
that you may know when you please, purposely forbear in this Essay, though
not strictly from pointing at, yet from making it a part of my present work