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ceiver, and abforbed 1 6 cubick inches of air, 
fb part of the whole 5 an allowance 
being made in this eftimate, for the bulk 
of the Cat's body. A candle in the fame 
veifci continued burning but one minute, 
and abforbed 54 cubick inches, n part of 
the whole air. 
And as in the cafe of burning Brimjlone 
and Candles^ more air was found to be ab- 
forbed in large veffels, than in fmall ones ; . 
and 'Vice verfa, more Air in proportion to 
the capacity of the veflel was abforbed 
in fmall, than in large velfelsjfo the fame 
holds true here tog in the cafe of ani- 
mals. . 
-Experiment CVllI. 
The following Experiment will flicw, 
that the elafticity of the Air is greatly dc- 
ftroyed by the reffiration of human lungs^ 
viz. 
I made a bladder very fupplc by wetting 
cf it, and then cut off fo much of the neck, 
as would make a hole wide enough for the 
biggeft end of a large folTet to enter, to which 
the bladder was bound faft. The bladder 
and 
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