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fomc Experiments feem to confirm, then other new 
Dodrines will arife. There mu ft be then a hidden, a 
fecret Principle in Bodies, to be lighted up by this 
moft fubtle Fire. There will be in the Univerfe a 
certain perpetual Fire from thefe Phofphori ; the Mat- 
ter of which, tho' conftantly difllpated by burning, 
does not wafte enough to be obvious to our Sen fes. 
I cannot conclude my Extrad of this Author, with* 
out mentioning, that his Work is the Refult of a 
great Variety of very ingenious Obfervations, and of 
Experiments made with the utmoft Accuracy; to 
which I may add, that where-ever he makes any Con- 
jedure concerning their Caufes, he does it with all 
poffible Decency, and Submiffion to the Judgment 
of the Learned. 
XVIII. A Letter from the Rev * Dr . Miles, 
F. R. S. to Mr . Baker, F. R. S. concerning 
the EleElricity of Water. 
Ftear Sir , 
Ef*iFeb. 27 -T BEGIN with a Refolution to be mer- 
JL ciful, and hope to keep it, efpecially 
as I perfecute you again fo foon ; and indeed the true 
Reafon of my doing it now, is that this might reach 
you before I have the Favour of another from you, 
as it relates to an Article in my laft *. 
I this Afternoon, on refleding afrefh on Monfieur 
L' Allamand's Experiment J*, refolved to make the fol- 
M 2 lowing 
* f. 79. fupra. 
t h 5 9> /"pro. 
