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in the feet and lower part of the legs ; notwii ® ‘ j,£i" 
wh ch on taking out of the vapour severa RubsU 
which had remained in it for a long t.rrre, such a 
leaves, the carcases of animals. Sec. the A 
SUBTERKANBOUS WONbEltS 
idli'i 
leaves, the carcases or anmui.=, --- “7. '7 ' ' . 
these were of the same temperature with the ,[i,^ 
Feeling in his body a slight degree of hea , w^ .f' 
could not perceive in the substances removed tr< 
COUlu y , , rnn-mnrisou to COO^- 
ronid not perceive m uic 
Wl,Uic vV.. i.e - W by 
•IV 
oTihaTa^ wa. '.l.e .a„,a -'7 
atmospherical air, agreeably 
ford He was, however, ^'''^.taken ; ioi , m . | 
he &»»<>. ' 
was now provided wdh a theiinomete , ■ ,| 
% • - 1 nrtrl Viiivinff susnenckci it at . 
was now proviuea wiui a ^ ^7 
having been broken, and, having J pt 
three feet above the sunace . 
*-tV-t''c 
v.apour, found the mercury to stand at irom 6 
sixty-four degrees of Fahrenheit; but, on / 
on the ground. ,so as to immerse it m the vapour, -jt 
° onfl pvpn eifrhlv-lw 
on the grouna, ^so as> ku .w , - 
cury ro!c to eighty, and even eighty-two ^l^gree J 
the substances Taken out of the mephitis toj 
this diversity of temperature, was he ‘''inks, o« ingj^/ 
oin., Usimiriitv -aaith wliich tliev 316 always J 
this diversity of temperature, was, ne 'uums, 
quantity of humidity with which they are '‘*1^ ^ 
and which produces on their surface a -iiiif' 
He was the more particular in repeating these c. P ^j^i 
,1 ,trivrv IviH before him, iniuk , i' 
He was the more paruk;uim u* , 
because the naturalists who Iwd, before him imj 
ones In the Grotta dep Cane had not . bsen^ 
vapour to produce any eflect on die mercuiy 
* - 
Thirdly. He repeated for his ‘j 
experiments made by naturalists, with the t.iictu e J 
sol, lime-water, the crystallizations of alkalis, di 
tion of . water, and the acidulous taste cornmuinc* J 
wHch prove, beyond all doubt, the existence ^ 
or carbonic acid gas, in the vapour of the giotto. 
certaiiied that it is not formed of hxed air alone, 
certained that it is not loriueu jaacava «‘a « , 
have been conjectured ; but that tlie relative^ 
tlie different gases which compose its mephitic ^.jji 
fellow — In one hundred parts, there are ten oi ^ 
0 , oxygenous gas ; forty of fixed air, or cat 
gas ; and fifty of phlogisticated air, or azotic gas- 
* Fourthly. The phenomena of roapietism ano ^ 
VBiB itivestigated bv the Abb4 in this guitlo. 
