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SECTION XII. 



Experiments Jhewing that all fruits 

 W general yield bad air ; and infeff 

 ordinary air at all times, but 

 principally in a dark place, and in 



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75. Six peaches of a fmall fize 

 were put under an inverted quart 

 jar placed upon a dim, in a room 

 not very light, between two in the 

 afternoon and feven in the evening ; 

 when I found the air in the jar 

 fo much fppiled, that a candle 

 could not burn, nor an animal live 

 in it. One meafure of it with one 

 of nitrous air occupied 1.86. 



76. Two of thefe peaches, being 

 put under the fame quart jar during 



two. 



