Note 4 — ELEMENTS OF THE THEORY of CHYMISTRY. (continued 4)

Mr. Margraaf, an able German Chymist, has made several experiments, which induce him to think that the Acid of Phosphorus is of a particular kind, and different from that of sea-salt. May it not be the Marine Acid, but altered by the union it has contracted with the Phlogiston? Or may it not be, with respect to Phosphorus, what the volatile sulphureous spirit is, with respect to Sulphur? See the Memoirs of the Royal Academy of Sciences of Berlin.