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manifeftly, though not nimbly a- 

 fcend } 1 took out the Thermofcope, 

 and laid it in powder c! Sal Armoni- 

 ac 3 warm'd beforehand 5 fo that the 

 tin&ed Liquor was made to afcend 

 much nimblier by the Salt than juft 

 before by the Watery and having 

 prefently remov'd the Inftrument in- 

 to that Liquor again, and poured the 

 fomewhat warm Sal Armoniac into 

 the fame, I founds as I imaging that 

 within a fpace of time which £ 

 guefs'd to be about half a minute or 

 lefs j the Spirit of Wine began ha- 

 ftily to fubfide^ and within a few mi- 

 nutes fell above a whole divifion 

 and a quarter below the mark at 

 which it ftood in the water, before 

 that Liquor or the Salt were warm'd. 

 Nor did the Spirit in a great while 

 reafcend to the height which it had 

 when the water was cold. 



The fame Experiment , being at 

 another time reiterated «, was tried 

 with the like fuccefs* which fecond 

 may therefore ferve for a Confirma,- 

 tioa of thefirft.3 



EXPER. 



