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an<J, 1 believe, about §ij of a Marrow bone, wc' 
placed the Vefle! horizontally betwixt the Bars of the 
iron Grate into the Fire about half way } and in three 
Minutes time 1 found it raifed to a great Heat; 
whereupon I had a mind to have taken it out of the 
Fire, left it fhould have burft ; telling Sir Thomas 
of the Danger that 1 apprehended : For I remember’d, 
that the Screws of a Digefter, made after Mr. Ta~ 
pines Method, giving way, the Head flew one way 
^and the Screws and Irons another, with fuch Vio- 
lence, that the Head, having hit againft a Brick, cut 
a Piece ciearly out of iti which was one Reafon 
and Motive to my contriving a Digefter this way, that’ 
the Screws cannot pollibly ftart, but that the Veflel 
would fooner break in any other Part : But in this 
(I added) I thought the Bottom would firft burft, it^ 
being only foldered in. Scarce had I done fpeaking, 
and Sir Thomas thereupon moved his Chair to avoid 
Danger; but feeing the Heat become more raging, I 
ftepp’d to the Side-table for the Iron wherewith I 
managed the Digefter, in order to take it out of the 
Fire, when, on a fudden, it burft as if a Mufquet had 
gone off. A Maid that was gone a milking, heard 
it at a confiderable Diftance; the Servants faid it 
Ihook the Houfe. As I had foretold, the Bottom of 
theVeffel, that was in the Fire, gave way; the Bl aft of 
the expanded Water blew all the Goals out of the 
Fire all over the Room ; for the Back- of the Fire- 
range was made juft like an Oven, fo that circulating 
therein, it brought forth all the Coals at the Mouth 
thereof. All the Veflel together flew in a direff Line 
aofs the Roomj and hitting the Leaf on a Table 
made 
