= fares of inflammable “ and left 
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ef ref{pirable air ; it exploded how~ 
ever with a loud report. .- 
1109. As, in experiment 106, the 
two meafures of inflammable air 
let up in the jar containing the 
walnut-leaves were fcarce corrected 
._-at all in the day time, whereas the 
other plants had corrected this air 
in a LETT eat, reatures ; I ful- 
? d that -leaves” had 
fuffered from the inflammable air 
in the night time, and that, perhaps, 
they had loft their natural power 
of. es gu this kind of air, or 
sah.ctgeie miftake had been com- 
x nite: 3 I thought it therefore ad- _ 
‘Vifeable. to repeat the experiment 
another day, which I did. Hav- 
-ing let up in a jar filled with 
-pump-water, in which a handful 
of walnut-leaves were, two mea- 
the 
