Mr. Kinwan’s Remarks. 177 
others; and as to the laft, good reafons have been affigned for 
thinking it inconclufive; and therefore the conclufion drawn | 
by me in the above-mentioned paper feems fufficiently juftified ; 
namely, that though it is not impoffible that fixed air may be 
generated in fome chemical procefles, yet it feems certain, that 
it is not the general effect of phlogifticating air, and that the 
diminution of common air by phlogiftication is by no means 
owing to the generation or feparation of fixed air from it. 

VoL. LXXIV. Aa 
