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pretty deal of the external Air; notwith
standing which, finding after a while the
stream did run afresh; though, as it seem'd,
not altogether so copious as before: I let
as much more Air, as would, come in, and
found (somewhat to my wonder) that
though the stream formerly mention'd
dis-appear'd, yet there appear'd not any
white fumes to arise, either from the Cork,
or out of the Viol it self, no not when
the Cover was remov'd from the Recei
ver; though not onely after a while there
ascended white Fumes from the Receiver:
but having forthwith taken out the Viol
into the open Air, it emitted white ex
halations as before; and having presently
after unstop'd it in an open Window, we
found both it and the Cork immediatly
to send forth a yet much more plentiful
smoak.
Though it be now divers years
since this Numerical Liquor was prepa
red, after the manner mention'd either
by Carneiades or Eleutherius (for I do not
well remember which) in those Dialogues
concerning Heat and Flame that have a
bove been mention'd.
More Circumstances concerning these
Fumes we might have observ'd, had we
not been deterr'd by an Indisposition in
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