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** had feveral inftances of the air 
** being undoubtedly meliorated by 
* this procefs, efpecially by the 
s* fhoots of ftrawberries, and fome 
** other plants, which I could, by 
*¢ bending, introduce into the jars - 
‘or phials of air fupported near 
‘them in the garden, when the 
** roots continued in the earth_— 
§¢ J had other inftances, no lefs un+ 
** queftionable, of common air not 
* only receiving no injury, but even 
* confiderable advantage, from the 
fs procefs, having been rendered in — 
** fome meafure dephlogifticated by 
§* it, fo as to be much more dimi- 
** nifhed by nitrous air than before, 
§* a thing which I was far from ex- 
f* pectine.—In moft of the cafes in 
*‘ which the plants failed to me- 
** liorate the air, they were either 
s‘-manifeftly fickly, or at leaft did 
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