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XXV. Account of a spontaneous Inflammation. By Isaac 
Humfries, Esq. In a Letter from Thomas B. Woodman, 
Esq. to George Atwood, Esq. F.R.S. 
Read July 10, 1794- 
dear SIR, Ewe11 ' J une 9 ’ I794 ' 
I inclose you the extract of the letter from Isaac Humfries, 
Esq. a gentleman resident in India, and employed in the Com- 
pany’s service, which relates to the circumstance of the fire I 
lately mentioned to you. 
And am yours, & c. 
THOMAS B. WOODMAN. 
“ 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 accident which had 
happened the preceding night. A bottle of linseed oil had 
been left on a table, close to which a chest stood, which con- 
tained 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, 
