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excufe my Impertinence ; and vouchfafe to believe 
me under many Obligations. 
Tooting, Feb. 4. 1745 6 . 
II. 
Extract of a Letter from Dr. Miles to 
Mr. Baker. 
I Scarce thought the Account I fent laft Week, of 
my kindling Spirits of Wine with Ice the jd of 
this Inftant, worth your Notice ; but that as I had not 
heard of any one at home who had done it, I in- 
clined to relate it to you. Since that, I made an- 
other Trial, and fucceeded with all the Eafe ima- 
ginable; the Spirit kindling the very Moment of 
my approaching them with the Lump of Ice, which 
was an Inch and a Quarter thick. After this I took 
a Clamp of Iron, fuch as is ufed for heating Box- 
Irons for fmoothing Linen-Clothes; and, having 
heated the fame red-hot, applied it to the Spirit, as 
I flood on the Cake of Wax ele&rified, holding the 
fame in a Pair of Tongs. 
I did not, I confefs, expeft much from this Trial ; 
and the Event was, that I could not kindle the Spi- 
rits, during the Time the Rednefs continued in the 
Clamp ; but, as foon as that difappear’d, and it be- 
gan to look blackifh, the Spirits were kindled as 
ufual. 
I fhall not draw any Conclufion from a Angle 
Trial ; perhaps fome Reafons might be alligned, why 
the 
