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one might naturally wonder that no 

 remarkable mifchief happens from 

 fo many plants as a foreft contains, 

 if one plant, containing fcarce a 

 handful, may poifon to fuch a de- 

 gree the quantity of two pints of 

 common air in one night, as to ren- 

 der it abfolutely mortal for any 

 animal who breathes in it. 



I make no doubt but a great 

 quantity of plants, kept in a clofe 

 and fmall place during a night, or 

 by day in the dark, may do fome 

 material mifchief, and even occafioii 

 death, to any perfon who fhould be 

 imprudent enough to remain in 

 fuch a place. The undoubted facls 

 of people being found dead in their 

 beds, when they had ilept in a fmall 

 room with a great deal of flowers in 

 it, mu ft infpire us with a caution 

 againft keeping too many flowers in 



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