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vchcmcrit and emphatical, and always attended with 
ftrong Gefticulations. They are generally well pro- 
portioned, and for the moft part are rather taller 
than the Engli^, They have all either a very dark- 
brown Hair, that may well be called black, or a Jet- 
black, all lank. 
II. An Experiment to prove, that Water, vohen 
agitated hy Fire, is infinitely more elaftic 
than Air in the fame Circumfiances ly the 
late Rev'^^ohn Clayton, ^ean of Kildare in 
Ireland. Communicated hy the fame Hand 
as the preceding, 
S I R Thomas Trohy having heard of a new 
Digefter, which 1 contrived, had a Defire 
to fee It, and fome Experiments made therein. I 
had a fmall one, which 1 defigned only for an inward 
Cylinder } this I could eafily put in my Pocket : Where- 
fore, going to pay him a Vifit at Elton in Hunting-^ 
donjhirey I took it along with me j and having foftened 
'a Bone therein in a very fhort Space, he was defirous 
to know the fhorteft Time it was pollible to foften 
a Bone in : I told him, 1 thought I could foften the 
Marrow-bone of an Ox in a very few Minutes, but 
that that Veffel was very weak, and I feared would 
not endure the PrelTure of fo violent a Heat^ yet 
feeming defirous to have the Experiment tried, I faid 
1 was ready to venture my Veffel : Then having fixed 
all things right, and included about a Pint of Water, 
and^ 
