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Relating to the following

obviate some misapprehensions that may arise concerning the ensuing Notes about Particular Qualities, it may not be improper to adde something in this place to what has been said in another † Paper in reference to those Notes, and consequently to premise to the particular Experiments some few general Advertisements about them.

And I. we may consider, that there may be three differing ways of treating Historically of Particular Qualities. For either one may in a full and methodical History prosecute the Phænomena; or one may make a Collection of various Experiments and Observations whence may be gathered divers Phænomena to illustrate several, but not all of the Heads or Parts of such an ample or methodical History; or (in the third place) one may in a more Rh