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and turned into another ; but an Overman, iome Days 
after this Change, and upon fome Notion of his ,own,. 
being induce^; as is fuppofed, by a frefla, c6oI, jfrofty 
Breeze ot Wind, which blew that unlucky Morning, 
and which alwVys clears the Works of all Sulphur, had 
gone too near this Pit, and* had met the Sulphur juft as 
it was purging and difperfing it felf y upon which the 
Sulphur imt|fediately took Fire -by his Candle, and 'fo 
he proved the occafion of theLofs of himfelf and fo ma- 
ny Men, and of the greateft Fire that ever was known' 
in thefe Parts. 
r 
! III. y^n Account of the Succefs of an Attempt tocontU 
nue federal Atmofpkeres of Air ' conderifed in the 
fpKce of one^ for a co^ifderahj^-^irrre.'^ (By Mn Fr. 
Hauksbee, E 
March iQf VJoS. 
I Injected witli my Siringe into a very thick Hint- 
Glafs Bottle, (which I had. procur’d to be made on'- 
purpofe for the Experiment) between four and five At« 
inofpheres of Air, as the included Gage demonftrated, • 
' wJiich continu’d in that State till about the yth of Au-:' 
following ; when looking on’t, (as ufually once in 
four or five Days) I found that the Air InjeQ:ed at the 
^rementioned time, had made its Efcape, .the Weather' 
For a W eek before (or thereabouts) having been very « 
I hot ^ efpecially one Day I obfervd the Spirit in the Ther- 
t mometer had afeendedone hundred and twenty Degrees 
( above the Freezing Point. And notwithftanding the 
Bottle was continnallv kent under Wacfir, yet the Ce-,- 
men;^' 
