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SE: CF EOeN- dy. 
The dephlogifticated air oozing out of 
the leaves in the water 1s not ar. 
_ from the water itfelf. 
THE reverend Dr. Pricftley 
found, - ‘hat. water, chiefly pump 
water, ftanding fome days by itfelf, 
forms at the bottom and fides of the 
vefiel akind of green matter, feem- 
ingly vegetable, from which air 
bubbles rife continually to the top of 
the jar, if expoted to the fun-fhine: 
that. this air a fine. de phlogifticated 
air, which fhews that there is a ‘fa> 
culty in water to produce by itfelf 
this beneficial fluid; and thus, that 
the mafs of the waters of the fea, 
lakes, and rivers, have their fhare, . 
in purifying the atmofphere. | 
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