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A Cofitinuition cf the Exferiments made hy Monjieur Hugens, and 
^ Compare Mr. Boyles M. Papin, in the Atr Vumf ; vehich are about 
New Experiments about ffjg Prcfervatioo of Bodies 
the Prefervatlon of Bodies 
in Facuo Boyllan(h printed, together with other Tracts, A, i ^74. 
^T^O know, whether the Vacuum would be of ufe to the Pre- 
J fervationof Bodies, I took an Apple, and included it with 
fuch a Cover, as is defcribed formerly in our Method of taking a- 
way an exhaufted Recipient from off the Engin. The Apple I 
chafe, had a Httlefpeck of rottennefs, and I did purpofely in- 
clude fome warer in the fame Recipient, thereby to promote the 
corruption in cafe any fliould come to pafs. But 1 have not 
found that any change happened to this 
Thefe Experiments were ^ppj^ fi^cc the third of ^^/,1675. 
printed at Varis m French, in \:. . , u • 1 » • 1 • 1 
fiie year 1674. which was the day on which I included 
it 
The feventhcf J»;?^I included in a Receiver two Nofegaysof 
Rofes, one fufpended at the top, the other having its tail in a liitle 
Veflel full of water. I alfo put in the fame Receiver a Gage four 
Inches long, to know whether any Air would be there produced. 
Two days after I found my Rofes a little wither'd, and the water 
already rifen to eight or ten lines, near the topof my Gage; and 
after that^ the changes of thefe Flowers became ftill lefs, fo that at 
this prefent time they are not much more wither'd, and the water 
of the Gage is by three or four lines near the top. The Rofes 
which lye dipt io the water are as much wither'd as the others,^ and 
as foon. Ifliall keep them in this condition as long as Ican.Other 
Rofes which I had included at the fame time, but mth Air, grew 
mouldy in lefs than eight day?. 
At another time I included onefingle Rofe-button in a very little 
Glafs, to learn, whether it would keep its Scent. At the end of 
fifteen days it look'd a little Itfs frefh, but was not at all wither'd; 
and having taken ic out, I found, it had ftill its good fmell ; but af- 
ter that, it loft all both colour and fmell in lefs than two hours. I 
muft alfo add, that its leaves did not appear moift in the vactium, 
but they looked all moift as foon as they were in the Air. Which 
fhews,that the parts of the leaves had afted asSprings,like asSpun- 
ges do, and that the weight of the Air coming to prefs upon them, 
did 
