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One day I included a piece of roajled ^tuttm with a Gage^ . 
and found, that in four ddiysn had yielded no Air ; but afrer my 
abfence of fix weeks I faw the Mercury was rifen to the middle 
oftheGage^ andhavingtaken out the meat, I found it of a very 
iUfmell. 
Two days after^ I included a piece of raw Beef zv\d a Gage 
with it, and { faw, that in two days the Qiiickfilver was rifen an 
inch in the Gage ; and after fix weeks abfence, I found, the Mer- 
cury was got ahuofl to the topof theGage^ and that this meat 
had contrafied a much worfe fmell than that which had been 
roaftede 
I a!fo kept for fifteen days a piece of frefh Butter in vacm.znd 
I- found, that it fiuelt morefi-rong than when I firft put it in : But 
yi?t it could be ftill eaten upon bread ; whereas another piece of 
Butcer,whichat thefame time I had kept in the Air, was altogether 
unfit to be eaten. 
Thefe are almofl all the Experiments I have made touching the 
Gonfervation of Bodies vwvacno. The Gentlemen of our Royal 
AcaSiemy ^ whofaw moft of chem J«// laft , thought them worthy 
to be entred in their Regifter, efteeming, that befides the confe- 
quences they might afford for Natural Philofophy, foii>e other 
utilities might alfo be drawn thence. For, fince that fome Bodies 
do better keep there than others, fome may poffibly be found , 
that will keep t here al together we}l,and others that will there keep 
well enough to be tranfported into places where they could not 
be had el fe. 
A Letter of ^Ir. Flamfteed, Profeffor Regius of Afirommy in -, 
London, to Sir Jonas Moox -Knight} c^c. contaimng his Olfer- 
wtions of the late Lur)^T EcVipCG, opiDGctmh, 21. 1675. 
lliuftri Viro 
Doimm Jon^e Moor ^ Equiti Aurato, Rei Tormentariag 
per jingliam & Hiberniam Supervifori General!, Joh, 
Flamftedim ^ Bene agere & reft e va! ere. 
TVTj/' ^^^^^ Meridie, hunc Defe^umpracedefjte, nuhthtcs den^ 
I ^] f^ffi^^-, f/w/i contima^ vento validiffime inhorrefcens, cm- 
nemfere fpemoptat£ Jerenitati^ al?J}ulijfet, iterque hue per flume n. ad- 
navigantibmpericnlofum admodum reddidijfetjp/ustil>i proper M^m> 
Jiri 
