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pemtims, thus Water and Oyl oiVitrioHxt codling in their' 
TSlature^ but th^CG in ConjutiHion c^uk z gtc^t heat, which 
foon excite the agile Particks of our Fhofphorm roan aftu- 
alfire, and this Meeting with an inflaroable Ingredient 
Aich as Oyl oi Turpentine, or the like 5 does produce as 
confidemble a flame^s boiling Oyles as wont to do. 
Thefe Experiments would have been lefs confiderable 
or furprizing, had that of Borrichim been certainf meniion'd 
hy Bartholinus in the JUa Hafnienfia) and quoted by an> 
Ingenious Fellow the I^yal Society as credible. The 
Jitleoi the Experiment being, to make two Liquors kindle 
oneanothertho apart thtyare adrually cold. 
Tho I knew it would fail of the defircd event by feve- 
ralunfuccesfulTry^//! had nnade, yet I was thcwillinger 
to make the Experiment before fo many imparrial Judges^ 
bccaufe this fpecious Experimenthtd been itnpofed not on- 
ly on fomethat were prefen t, but alfo on the faith of many 
of the G^m^w Nation, who fometimes quoted it to ferve 
x\\t\Y Hypothe/is. This made it neceffary to bring it to a: 
^mlDeterminafion, ' ' ' 
Experiment JUL 
BEing a Refutation of 5i3mV/;^;/^'s Experiment that pr^^^ 
teriysto Accenfion. - ' ^oi:: ; . V^ f 
We took according to direftion four Ounces of frelli 
drawn Spirit of Venus Turpentine to fix Ounces of Aquafor» 
f// newly drawn and very ftrot)g. 
We miyed them together in a <51a^rs¥oay> -atiAaccOf- 
Singly placed the V^flfelin^e Sz^i^ S^ 
tolcifbme of the By-ftahderrwouW^ieiceiv^^ haffafft 
liQUrs Patience the i?^//£>r/ began to ferment ve^^^^^ 
in fomuch that a very great Smoak w^ raifed by this means 
which was ordered to J<iept do^nTif ttS^t the 
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