234 Anatyfis of the Air. 



ceiver, and abforbed 1 6 cubick inches of air, 

 viz. 3 ~o part of the whole 5 an allowance 

 being made in this eftimate, for the bulk 

 of the Cat's body. A candle in the fame 

 veffel continued burning but one minute, 

 and abforbed 54 cubick inches, A part of 

 the whole air. 



And as in the cafe of burning Brimjlone 

 and Candles, more air was found to be ab- 

 forbed in large veffels, than in fmallones^ 

 and vice verfa, more Air in proportion to 

 the capacity of the veffel was abforbed 

 in fmall, than in large veffels 5 fo the fame 

 holds true here too in the cafe of ani- 

 mals, 



Experiment CVIII. 



The following Experiment will fhew, 

 that the elafticity of the Air is greatly de- 

 ftrpyed by the refpiration of human lungs, 

 viz. 



I made a bladder very fupple by wetting 

 of it, and then cut off fo much of the neck, 

 as would make a hole wide enough for the 

 biggeft end of a large foflet to enter, to which 

 the bladder was bound faff. The bladder 

 3 and 



