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being overcharged and compressed, will hardly re 

 ceive the exhaling of any thing, but rather repulse 

 it. It was tried in a blown bladder, whereinto flesh 

 was put, and likewise a flower, and it sorted not : 

 for dry bladders will not blow ; and new bladders 

 rather further putrefaction : the way were therefore 

 to blow strongly with a pair of bellows into a hogs 

 head, putting into the hogshead, before, that which 

 you would have preserved ; and in the instant that 

 you withdraw the bellows, stop the hole close. 



Experiment solitary touching wood shining in the 

 dark. 



352. The experiment of wood that shineth in 

 the dark, we have diligently driven and pursued : 

 the rather, for that of all things that give light here 

 below, it is the most durable, and hath least apparent 

 motion. Fire and flame are in continual expence ; 

 sugar shineth only while it is in scraping ; and salt 

 water while it is in dashing ; glow-worms have their 

 shining while they live, or a little after ; only scales 

 of fishes putrified seem to be of the same nature with 

 shining wood : and it is true, that all putrefaction 

 hath with it an inward motion, as well as fire or 

 light. The trial sorted thus : 1, The shining is in 

 some pieces more bright, in some more dim ; but 

 the most bright of all doth not attain to the light of 

 a glow-worm. 2. The woods that have been tried 

 to shine, are chiefly sallow and willow ; also the ash 

 and hazle ; it may be it holdeth in others. 3. Both 

 root and bodies do shine, but the roots better. 



