Boyle, Robert New experiments physico-mechanicall, touching the spring of the air and its effects 1660

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point of health, from having much to do
with steams of so dangerous a nature, as by
that of the Ingredients of this Liquor
these seem likely to be of.

The Reflections that may be made up­
on this Experiment, we have not now the
leasure to prosecute, and therefore shall
content our selves to recommend the se­
veral Circumstances of it to Your Lord­
ships serious consideration; and to take
notice (en passant) that steams in an am­
bient Body, or a medium thinner then
themselves, may both tend downwards,
and otherwise emulate the nature of a
Liquor; which I therefore point at, that
it may appear the less strange, if we some­
times speak of the Atmosphere as of a
kinde of Liquor, in comparison of that
more thin and subtle Celestial Matter that
surrounds it.

And though it might perchance suf­
fice to have on this occasion intima­
ted thus much; yet, lest this way
of speaking of the Atmosphere should
be thought too bold and extra­
vagant, I am content to borrow an
Experiment of the Discourse former-