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Bladder - r And after fome Fortnights diftance, fee whether the Bladder be 

 (lirunk ; For if it be, then it is plain, that the Coldnefje of the Earth or Snow, 

 hath Condenfed the Aire, and brought it a Degree neaser to Water : Which 

 is an Experiment of great Confequence. 



IT is a Report of fome good credit, that in Deep Caves, there are Penftle 

 Chrjftall , and Degrees oichryfall that drop from above And in fome 

 other, (though more rarely) that rife from below. Which though it be 

 chiefly the Work of Cold, yet it may be, that Water, that paffeth tho- 

 row the Earth, gathereth a Nature more clammy, and fitter to Congeal^ 

 and becomes Solid, than Water of it felf. Therefore Triall would be 

 made, t o lay a Heap of Earth, in great Frofts, upon a Hollow VelTeli, put- 

 ting a Canvafe between, that it falleth not in .• And poure Water upon it, 

 in fuch Quantity as will be fure to foak thorow y And fee whether it will 

 not make an harder Ice in the bottome of the VeiTell, and lefTe apt to dif- 

 iblve,than ordinarily. I fuppofe alfo, that if you make the Earth narrower at 

 the bottome, than at the Top, in fafhion of a Sugar Loafe Reverfed, it will 

 heip the Experiment. For it will make the Ice, where it iifueth,lelTe in Bulk-, 

 And evermore Smalnefle of Quantity is a Help to Verfion. 



T*Ake Damask Rofes, and pull them-, Then drie them upon the Top of 

 aa Houfe,upon a Lead or Tanas,in the Hot Sun,in a clear day, between 

 the Houres(onely) of twelve and two, or thereabouts. Then put them into 

 a Sweet Drie Earthen Battle, or a Glajje with narrow Mouthes, Ituffing them 

 clofe together, but without Bruiting : Stop the Bottle, or Glafje, clofe, and 

 thefe Rofes will retain, not only their Smell Perfecl, but their Colour treih, 

 for a year at leaft. Note, that Nothing doth fo much deltroy any Plant, or 

 other body, either by Putrefaction, or Aref action, as the Adventitious Moi- 

 jlure, which hangeih loofe in the Body,if it be not drawn out. For it betray- 

 eth and tolleth forth the Innate and Radicall Moifture along with it, when it 

 felfgoeth forth. And therefore in Living Creatures, Moderate Sweat doth 

 preferve the Juyce of the Body. Note that thefe Rofes, when you take them 

 from the Drying have little or no Smell; So that the Smell is a Second Smell > 

 that ilfueth out of the Flower afterwards. 



THe C or, ti nuance of Flame, according unto the diver fity of the Body Enfla- 

 med, and other Circumftances, is worthy the Enquiry-, Chiefly, for 

 that though Flame be (alrnoftjor a Momentany Lafting, yet it receiveth the 

 More, and the Leffe : we wili firft therefore (peake (at large) of Bodies Enfla- 

 medj wholly, and Immediately, without any Wieke to help the Inflamma i- 

 A Spoonful of Spirit of Wine, a little heated, was taken,and it burnt as 

 1.6. Pulfes. The lame Quantity of Spirit of Wine, Mixed 

 With the Sixth Part of a Spoonful of Nitre burnt but to the fpace of 94. 

 Puifes. Mixed with the like Quantity of Bay-Jalt, 83. Pulfes. Mixed with 

 the like Qumtity of Gunpowder, which drilolved into a Black water, no. 

 Pulfes. A Cube, or Pellet of Yellow Wax, was taken, as much as half the 

 Spirit of Wine, and fet in the MiddeR, and it burnt only to the fpace of 87. 

 Pulfes. Mixed with the Sixth Part ofa fpoonfulof itf/'/X' , it burnt to the 

 fpace of 1 00. Pulfes \ And the Milk was crudled. Mixed with the Sixth 

 part of afpoonfulof Water, it burnt to the fpace of 86. Pulfes-, With 

 an Equal Quantity of Water, one.ly to the fpace of 4. Pulfes. A fmall Pebble 

 was laid in the Middeft, and the -Sprit si Wine burnt to the fpace of 94. 



Pulfes. 



Experiment 

 Solrtwy,touch- 

 ing Congealing 

 of Water into 

 Chryflalt. 



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long as can e r 



Experiment 

 Solitary, 

 touching Pre- 

 ferving of Rofe 

 leaves both in 

 Colour and 

 Smell. 



3V 



Experiments 

 in Confort, 

 touching the 

 Continuance .of 

 Flame. 

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