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of it with one of. nitrous air occu 
pied 1.33. 
108. I had alfo let up, in the 
fame jar in which the pepper-mint 
had been the whole night, two 
meafures of inflammable air, and 
kept it in the fun about three hours; 
‘but, having forgot to copy the re= 
fult of this experiment in my motes, 
I repeated it next day by ‘itfelf. J 
% - two eee farcs. of in- 
high I had put : four fprigs SFpep. 
qper-mint, fo that the whole made 
_ “up about one ‘handfals; I placed it 
_ in a fine ‘fun-fhine from: one till 
half paft four; when I examined 
the air, I. found it increafed about 
Tom and very much mended; ~ for 
leafure of it with one of ‘ni- 
~trous air oocupied 1.21; fo that it 
a very-muchito the — 
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