E. wey... 2 
fure of common air with one of 
nitrous air occupied 1.084. 
88. Two dozen of young and 
fmall French beans were put 
under an inverted quart jar over- 
night in a room without water; 
they ftood till eleven in the morn- 
ing and were not covered, fo that 
they had been a long while expofed 
to all the light of the room. The 
air in the j ae was found fo remark- 
ted by 
plant of Hyo/cyamus (fee Exp. 43)3 
for one meafure of it with one of 
nitrous air occupied 1.95. 
- 8g. I was willing to fee the effect 
of fuch offenfive air upon a living 
animal. I placed a very lively 
chicken eight or nine days old in 
this air; in the very inftant it en- 
tered the jar it fhewed figns of the 
od 
