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u readily, and burn more vehemently than 

 " other bodies do, qu. 7. What his notion 

 of fire and flame is, he gives us in qu. 

 9. and 10. qu. 9. " Is not fire a body heated 

 " fo hot as to emit light copioufly? Por 

 « what elfe is a red hot Iron than fire ) And 

 " what elfe is a burning Coal, than red hot 

 " Wood? Qu. 10, Is not flame a vapour, 

 " fume or exhalation heated red hot, that is, 

 " fo hot as to flame ? For bodies do not flame 

 " without emitting a copious fume, and 



" this fume burns in the flame. -Some 



" bodies heated by motion or fermentation, 

 €C if the heat grow intenfe, fume copioufly, 

 u and if the heat be great enough, the fumes 

 " will fliine and become flame: Metals in 

 <c fufion do not flame for want of a copious 

 " fume,except fpelter which fumes copioufly, 

 " and thereby flames : All flaming bodies, 

 < c as Oil, Tallow, Wax, Wood, foflil Coals, 

 u Pitch, Sulphur, by flaming wafte and vanifh 

 " into burning fmoak 5 which fmoak, if the 

 " flame be put out, is very thick and vifible, 

 " and fometimes fmells ftrongly, but in 

 " flame lofes its fmell by burnings and ac- 

 " cording to the nature of the fmoak the 

 £ flame is of feveral colours, as that of 



f fulphur. 



