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To Mgt ks all doabts, He wen t! iis point, Bae 
thawing, in ae ee Be going to fetch the 3 ice, ee 
examining it in the caik i which it was kept, I was perfeétl ; 
fatisfied with the appearances I found aha - for though much 
of it was melted, yet the ae Toa were frozen io” fo 
fragments had been broken and rammed into the eafk with a R 
iron mall. | q 
Bey porcelain cup being laid’ upon fome of this ice about half a 
an hour, in a room whofe temperature was 50°, it was found 
pretty firmly adhering, and when pulled off, the ice exhibited 
an exact impreffion of the fluted part of the cup which it had 
been in contact with; fo that the ice muft neceflarily have 
liquefied firft, and afterwards. congealed again. This was req 
peated feveral times, with the fame event. Fragments. of the 
ice were hkewife apphed to one another, to {ponges, to pieces: 
of flannel and of linen cloth, both meuft and dry: all thefe, 18 
a few feconds, began to = era and in about a migute were 
frozen fo. as to require fome force to. feparate them. After 








ftanding an hour, the cohefion was fo firm, that on pulling 
away the fragments of ice from the woollen and fponge, they 
tore off with them that part of the furface which they were 
in contact with, though at the fame time both the {ponge and: 
flannel were filled with water which that very ice had pro- 
duced. : & 
To make fome eftimate of the force of the conselanoal 
which was ftronger on the two. bodies laft mentioned than on 
5 linen 
