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wherein the Luminoufnefs of the Fifh refides. For I remembred, 
that I had; more than once obferved a certain glimmering & fmali 
Light td be produced in a fort of Bodies upon putting them out of 
their former Reft y and taking them into the Air, which fparks 
would vanifh themfelves fomtimes within one minute, fometimes 
within a few minutes. (But as thefe thoughts were but tranfient 
conje&ures, fo .1 (hall not entertain you any longer about them, 
but rather contenting my felf with the hint already given, take no- 
ticed what may be more certainly deduced from our Experiment 
which is, Thac the Air may have a much 'greater intereft in di- 
vers pdde Fhanomena of Nature, than we are hitherto aware of. 
.And for Confirmation of oftr Experiment I fhaii adde, that, 
having m another Receiver eel ipfecka piece of Fifh, thatfhone 
when’twas put in more languidly than divers others ,that we had 
tried ? ,Ikept it about three days a,nd three nights in a Receiver , 
which (. Receiver ) being fomewhat like another, at firft fuggefted 
to me, when I came to take it, fome ferupk , but afterwards, 
upon farther examination, concluded it to be the fame $ where- 
fore I opened it in the dark, and upon letting in the Air on 
this Body, that fhined but faintly at fir ft, it immediately reco- 
vered its fo long ifuppreffed Light: and having included another 
piece that was yet more faint than this, when i t was put into -the 
Receiver , I thought fit to try^at once the Experiment hitherto 
confirmed, and the Cmverfe of it. And therefore having kept 
this piece alfothree days and three nights in the exhaufted . G’lafs, 
I let in the Ait upon it, and no^vyithftanding the darknefs of the 
place nothing of life was thereupon revived. But this being lit- 
tle other than I expend from a Body, that fhined fo family when 
’twas put into the Receiver* and had been kept there fo long, I 
refolved to exercife my patience a while as well as my curiofity, 
and try, Whether the Appulfe and Conta& of the Air would 
have that operation after fome time } that it had not at fir ft % and ac- 
cordingly, after having waited a while, I obferved the, Fifh ro dif 
clofe a. Light, which though but dim, was.msnifeft enough $ brie 
having confidered it for fome time, I had not leifure to watch, 
whether kwould increafe,or how long k would continue, 
1 know a^y$jr } whether you are weary with reading, but I arr$ 
fore I am quge fired with. pnak ins fp .many ..Experiments upon cm 
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