Eidi 3"). 
i HAVE alfo difcovered, fince my 
book was printed, that, in reading 
Dr. Prieftley’s laft work, I had over- 
looked a remarkable paffage, p. 
27.0, in which he hints at what I 
found to be the cafe with inflam- 
mable air having ftood a long while 
with plants... 1 think it, my duty 
to relate his own words: ¢ I am 
“* fatisfied, however, from my own 
** obfervations, that air may be 
““ very offenfive to the noftrils, pro- 
ai bably hurtful to the Tungs, and 
“perhaps alfo in confequence of 
“the prefence of phlogiftic matter 
“in it, without the phlogifton be- 
“ing fo far incorporated with fee 
as to be difcovered by the mix- 
** ture of nitrous air,” 
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