THE LAST OF THE ALCHEMISTS
The last-true believer in alchemy was according to Mr Braude, one “Peter Woulfe,” who occupied chambers in Barnado’s Inn, Holborn, while m London ; and usually spent the summer iu Paris. He died in 1805. About the year 1801, another solitary adept lived, or rather starved, in London, in the person of an editor of an evening newspaper, who expected to compound the alkahest, if he could keep the material digested in a lamp furnace for the space of seven years. The lamp burnt brightly during six years eleven months and some odd days besides; and then unluckily, it went out. Why it went out, the adept could never guess, but he was certain that if the flame could only have burnt until the end of the septenary cycle, his experiment must have succeeded.
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Hokitika Guardian, 8 October 1929, Page 2
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138THE LAST OF THE ALCHEMISTS Hokitika Guardian, 8 October 1929, Page 2
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