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7' But notwithftanding the vividnefs of this Light, I 
could not by the touch difcera the leaft degree of Heat in 
the parts whence it proceeded^and having put fomc marks 
on one or two of the more fliining places, that I might 
know them again when brought to the hght, I applied a 
(eard Weather glafs, furnifhed with tinned fpirit of wine, 
for a pretty while, and could not fatisfie my felf, that the 
fhining parts did at all fenfibly warm the hquor : But the 
Thermofcope^though good in its kind^being not fitted for 
fuch nice Experiments, I did not build much upon that 
tryal. 
8. Notwithftanding the great number of lucid parts in 
this Neck of Veal, yet neither I, nor any of thofethat 
were about me,couId perceive by the fmell the leaft degree 
of ftink, whence to infer any Putfefadion ^ the meat be. 
fngjudgcd very frefh and well conditionM and fit to be 
drefed^ 
The floar of the Larder, where this meat was kept^is 
almoft a ftory lower then the level of the ftreet, and 'tis 
divided from the Kitchen but by a partition of boards, and 
is furnifhed but with one window, which is not great, and 
looks toward the ftreet, which lyes North- ward from 
at. 
10. The wind, as far as we could obferveic, was then 
at South weft, and bluftering enough* The Air by the 
feard Thermofcope appeared hot for the Jeafon.The Moon 
was paft its laft Quarter, The Mercury in the Barometer 
flood at 29^1 inches. 
11. We cut off with a knife one of the luminous partSj 
which proved to be a tender bone^ and being of about 
thethieknefsofa half Crownpiece^ appeared to ffiineon 
both fides though not equally ; ^nd that part of the bone, 
whence this had been cut offg continued joined to the 
reft of the Neck of Vealj and was feen to ihine, but 
i tiothing near lo vividly as the part^ we had taken off, did 
before* 
12. To 
