322 Experiments and Obfervations 
bottle of lime-water being placed under it. After 
filling the other with raif-water, and inverting it in 
a veffel of the fame, I introduced into it feven 
and one-fourth ounce-meafures of air, that had been 
confined more than a week with putrid flefh, in a 
veffel ftanding in water. ‘Fhe Barometer was at the 
time at 29,81 inches; a Thermometer, placed befide 
the jars, ftood at 56°. The lime-water, in the bottle 
under the firft glafs, became turbid in the fpace of 
twenty-four hours. At the end of three days, the 
barley it contained had fpronted confiderably, while 
the parcel in the other jar remained unaltered; nor 
was the bulk of the Azote confined with it inereafed 
or diminifhed perceptibly: ‘Fhe Barometer and 
Thermometer flanding very nearly at the points 
{pecified above, when the bell glafs was agitated in 
water, the inclofed air did not contraét in the leaft : 
a proof that no carbonie acid gas was mixed with 
it. ‘The jar being taken out of the water, and 
cleared of the gas, was placed on the table, with.a 
bottle half-full of lime water under it. In fourteen 
hours, part of the lime-water was precipitated ; and, 
in feventy-two hours, the grain had fprouted, fof 
as if it had never been expofed to any thing but 
atmofpheric air. I repeated this experiment, at 
another time, with four drams of fteeped barley, 
and two and a, half ounce-meafures of air, being 
part of the refidaum of a quantity of common air 
tuat had been in conta& with a folution of liver of 
fulphur for eight days. ‘The experiment was con- 
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