Q3 Account of a Spontaneous Inflammation . 
awakened by a smoke of a very suffocating smell ; they 
immediately rose, and instantly saw, on opening the 
warehouse-door, that the bale was on fire, and glowing ; 
fortunately the warehouse was above-stairs, and the bale 
lay near the door by which goods are taken in, so that 
it was easily thrust out into the street, where it instantly 
Mazed with such fury as to damage the paint over the 
door of the house near which it lay ; it would probably 
have set fire to the wood- work had not water been at 
hand, with which it was quenched, when four stone only 
of the yarn were consumed. 
No. 13. 
Account of a Spontaneous Inflammation , which happen - 
ed in India ; by Isaac Humfries, Esq.* 
On going into the arsenal a few mornings since, I 
found my friend Mr. Golding, the commissary of stores^ 
under the greatest uneasiness, in consequence of an ac- 
cident which had happened the preceding night. A bot- 
tle of linseed-oil had been left on a table, close to which 
a chest stood which contained some coarse cotton cloth ; 
in the course of the night the bottle of oil was thrown 
down, and broken on the chest, (by rats most probably,) 
and part of the oil ran into the chest, and on the cloth. 
When the chest was opened in the morning, the cloth 
Was found in a very strong degree of heat, and partly re- 
duced to tinder, and the wood of the box discoloured, as 
from burning. After a most minute examination, no ap- 
pearance of any other inflammable substance could be 
* Repert. of Arts and Manufactures, vol. 3. p. 21. From the Trans, of the 
Roy. Soc. Londo 
