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Some Obf$tvations about Shining Flefli, made by the Honou* 
r«^/^ Robert Boyle 5 Febr^ if.iSit^ and by rvaj of Letter 
addrejjed to the Fubliper ^ and prefented to the R, So* 
ciety, 
YEfternight when I was about to go to bed, an Ama- 
nuenjis ofminc, accuftom'd to make Obfervations, 
informed mCj that one of the Servants of the houfejgoing 
upon fome occafion into the Larder^was frighted by fome- 
thing of Luminous thatfhe faw fnotwithftandiog the dark, 
nefs of the place,) where the meat had been hung up be- 
fore : Whereupon fufpending for a while my going to 
reft, I prefently fentfor the meat into my Chamber, and 
caufed it to be placed in a corner of the room capable of 
being miade confideraWy dark, and then I plainly faw, 
both with wonder and delighCj that the joint of meat did 
tn di'vefs places fliine /ike rotten Wood or ftinking Fifli ; 
which was fo uncommon a fight , that I had prefently 
rhoughts of inviting you to be a Qiarer i4i the pleafure of 
f^; :^ But the late boujp of the mght did not only make me 
?ear to give you too unfeafonable a trouble, but being 
joyned with a great Cold I had got that day by making 
Tryal of a new Telefcope (you fawjj ina windy place^ I 
durft not fit up long enough to make all the tryals that I 
thought of and judged th« occafion worthy o€ But yet, be- 
raufe i effectually refolved taimploy the little time I had 
tofpare, inmakingfuch ObfervatioijS and tryals, as the j 
accommodations, I could procure at fo inconvenient att j 
honr, would enable me, I fliall here give you a brief ac- -i 
count of the chief circumftances and Ph<enomena^thzt I had I 
opportunity to take notice of* j 
I. Then I muft tell you, that the fubjedfc^ we difcourfe j 
of; was a Neck of Veal, which, as I learned by inquiryj \ 
had been bought of a Country.butcher on the Tuefday i 
preceding; ~ I 
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