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SECTION XIL 
Experiments fbewing that all fruits 
in general yield bad air, and infect 
ordinary air at all times, but 
principally in a-dark _— and in 
the esis re 
se Se peaches of a fmall fize 
were put under an inverted quart 
jar placed upon a difh,in a room 
not very light, between two in the 
afternoon and feven in the evening; 
when I found the air in the jar. 
fo much {fpoiled, that a candle 
could not burn, nor an animal live 
in it. -One. meafure of it with one 
ef nitrous air occupied 1.86. 
76. Two of thefe peaches, being 
= peri under the ee = jar during 
nS : twa 
