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der 50 in the {hade, which had 

 been in the time of the other ex- 

 periments in general between 70 

 and 83), the leaves, fruits, and roots 

 had loft a good deal of their mif- 

 chievous influence upon the cir- 

 cumambient air in the night, and 

 by day in fliaded places, though 

 they had loft nothing of their falu- 

 brious power in yielding by day 

 dephlogifticated air ; but that the 

 flowers feemed to have loft very 

 little or nothing of their malignant 

 effluvia by which they contaminate 

 the furrounding air ; and that water 

 itanding by itfelf, or with plants in 

 it, lofes by the fun-fhine, or rather 

 by the warmth communicated to it 

 in the fun, the faculty of promoting, 

 or rather of not obftrudting, the 

 plants yielding dephlogifticated air; 

 but that it recovers almoft to an 

 U equal 



