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• -’.The Water".! :purg’d from Air in the following 
manner. 
• 
I lirfl: boy I’d it well over the Fire •, afterwards I 
- included it Vacuo, where it rem'ain’d in that 
iState till *it was cold; from whence I took it, and 
proceeded prefently on the Experiment, which 
on two Tryais fucceeded alike. 
III. An Account of an Experiment touching the Free:^- 
hig of Common Water ^ Ting d with a Liquid faid to 
he Extracted from ShelULac. By Mr, Francis 
Hauksbce. F, ^ S. 
^ i “HIS Liquid is. a very' deep Red ^ a fmall quantity 
1 whicli, -will Tinge twenty times as much of 
Common Water of a very good Sanguine 
Colour hardly Tranfparent. I found this 
Liquor, Extraffed from Lac^ would not 
Freeze ; for during the Coldeft -Weather 
we have lately had, it -retaind its Fluidity ; 
and when it was mixt with Water, and 
expos’d to Freeze, the Water, in which it 
was mixt, foo^i fuffer’da Congelation ; and 
.fo much of it. as underwent the Change, 
appear'd of a fine but pale Tranfparent Red ; the Body , 
of the Cojour retiring into' the Middle, in form of the 
Figure a a, in the Margin, and was wholly Opake. 
And when no more of the mixt Liquid would be Frozen, 
I took the Body of Ice out of the Glafs that contain’d 
' it;' 
