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wherein the Luminoofnefs of the Fifli refides^ For I remembred, 
that I had more than once obferved a certain glimmering & fmali 
Light to be produced in a fort of Bodies upon putting them out of 
their former Reft^ and taking them into the Air, which fparks 
would vanKh themfelves fomtimes within one minute/ometimes 
within a few minutes. But as thefe thoughts were but tranfient 
conjedures, fo I (hall not entertain you any longer about them, 
but rather contenting my fdf with the hint already given^take no- 
tice of what may be more certainly deduced from our Experiment, 
which is. That the Air may have a much greater interefl in di- 
vers odde Fhdnomena of Nature^ than we are hitherto aware of. 
And for Confirmation of oar Experiment I (hall adde, that, 
having in another Receiver eclipfed a piece of Fi(h, that (hone 
when 'twas put in more languidly than divers others that we had 
tried, I kept it about three days and three nights in a Receiver^ 
which ^Receiver) being fomewhat like another, at firfl fuggefted 
to me, when I came to take it, iome fcrupk , but afterwards, 
upon farther examination, concluded it to be the fame ^ where- 
fore I opened it in the dark, and upon letting in the Air on 
this Body, that fhined but faintly at firft, it immediately reco- 
vered its fo long fupprtffed Light: and having included another 
piece that was yet more faint than this, when it was put into the 
iJ^r^k'^r, I thought fit to try at once the Experiment hitherto 
confirmed, and the Converfeoi it. And therefore having kept 
this piece alfo three days and three nights in the exhaufted Glafs, 
I let in the Air upon it, and oo^withftanding the darknefs of the 
place nothing of life was thereupon revived. But this being lit- 
tle other than I expeded from a Body, that fh'ned fo faintly whea 
' twas put into the and had been kept there folong, I 
refolved to exercife my patience a while as well as mycuriofity, 
and try. Whether the Appulfe and ContaS of the Air would 
have that operation after fome time^ that it had not atfrfl ^ and ac- 
cordingly, after having waited a while, I obferved the Fifh to dif- 
clofea Light, which though but dica, was manifcft enough 5 but 
having confidered it for feme time, I had not leifure to watch, 
whether 'twould iacreafe,or how long 'twould continue. 
I know not, 5/>, whether youare weary'wich read:n;^^butlam 
fare I am quite tired with making fo many E^ipc; inj -its upon ajte 
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