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votrr it) to be recovered either by warmtli>0r letting in the Air. A tvhile 
after this Note w2ls written, this Fiy recovered-,and being next morning 
fealedup again in that Glafs,and kept 48 hours, though over the Chim- 
ney, died for good and ail. 
Experiment 4. 
We took a large Grafs-hoppery whofe Body, befides the Horns and 
LirabSjWas about an Inch in length, and of a great thicknefs in Propor- 
tion to that length:this we conveyed into a Portable Receiver of an O- 
val form, and capable of holding(by our guefs)about a Pint of water and 
more,and having afterwards puraped out the Air,till by the Gage it ap» 
peared to have been pretty well drawn out, we took care, no Air lliould 
reenter to di'lurb the Experiment. The fuccefs whereof was this : Firft, 
Thoughjbefore the Exhauftion of the Air was begun,the Gralhopper was 
ftirring, and lively,and continued fo for a while after the beginning of 
the Operation yet when the Air began to be confiderably rarified, he 
appeared to be very ill at eafe,and feeraed to fweat out of the Abdomen 
many little drops of Liquor, which being united trickled down the Glafs 
like a little ftrcam, which made at the Bottom a fmall Pool of clear Li» 
quor, amounting to near a quarter of a Spoonful, and by that time the 
Receiver was ready to be taken off, the Gralhopper was fallen upon his 
back^andlay as dead. Secondly, Though having a little after laid the 
Glafs in a South window, on which the Sun then lhone,I perceived fome 
flow motions in the Thorax, as if he drained to fetch breath yet I was 
not fure they were not Convuliivc motions, and what ever they were, 
they la/ted but a while, and then the Animal appeared to be quite dead, 
and to continue fo for three hours from the removal of the Receiver, 
Thirdly, that time being expired, the Glafs was opened and the Air let 
in upon him, notwithftanding which there appeared no Ggn at all of 
Life ^ but imagining there might be fome time requifite to recover^ him 
out of fo deep a fwoon,I let the Glafs reft in a convenient Poflure, that 
the water that came from him might not endanger himjfor a quarter or 
half an hour, and though I then perceived no ligns of Life , yet being 
defirous toperfuethe Trya I yet further, Icaufedhira to be carried into 
a Sunlhiny place,where the Beams of a declining Sun prefently began 
to make him ftir his Limbs, and in a Ihort time brought him perfcdly to 
Life again. 
Experiment 5« 
We took one of thofey^/w;^^ Beetles they cM Roje- Flies, and having 
included it in a very fmall round Receiver, which we ex- 
haufted,and though he that attended the Engine, affirmed, jpriUh isth» 
it ftrugled much whileft the Air was withdrawing, yet^re- 
fently after,! could perceive but little motion (and part of that feemed 
almoft ConvuUive) and afterward going abroad, and not returning to 
look on the Glafs till about 6 hours after, the Fly feemed quite dead, 
and difcovered not any motion u-pon that of the Glafs, And within 
about an hourafter^ though I let tlie Air ruih in yet no fignof Life 
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