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Selections. 



[NO. 5, NEW SERIES, 



ings and the planks, where the surfaces of the wood could not be 

 reached by the brush in the process of preparation. 



Some pieces of plank, which had been piled against the stove 

 in the building, having become inflamed, as also a small portion 

 of the flooring, which was not prepared, a pail of water was thrown, 

 from the doorway, at the stove, whereby the fire from the planks 

 was extinguished ; the water, however, scarcely reached the sides 

 of the hut and did not affect the fire in the stove. 



About an hour after the corner of the hut had been kindled, the 

 stove, which had some time before partly fallen from some of its 

 supports, so that it actually leaned against one side of the hut, pro- 

 truded from the opening ultimately formed in the corner by the 

 fire, which, though not interfered with, had confined itself almost 

 to the immediate vicinity of the highly heated stove. 



The latter was now removed from the hut through this opening, 

 and a short time after, a little water was used to extinguish the 

 fire which had been communicated to that part of floor over which 

 the stove had been standing. 



The fire which was burning here and there very slowly, in the 

 corner of the hut, was left untouched. 



Experiment 2. 



Soon after the experiment above described had been commenced, 

 and before the fire in the stove had produced any effect upon the 

 hut, a pile of shavings and wood, with a little tar, was made in the 

 opposite prepared corner of the hut, upon some loose prepared 

 planks (laid down to save the unprepared flooring of the hut,) and, 

 this having been kindled, a fierce fire was maintained for about 

 ten minutes ; the flames licking the sides of the hut and a portion 

 of the roofing. 



At the expiration of that time, the sides and upper corner of the 

 hut were perceived to be burning in a few places, at the edges of 

 the weather-boarding. A short time afterwards the pile of fire 

 was withdrawn, upon which the prepared surfaces of the wood 

 immediately ceased burning, and it was found that the fire had 



