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Experiments 
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touching the 
Vcrjion and 
Tranfmtatm 
of Aire into 
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3\(aturall History: 
Spirit of Lifers Snakes, an dsiikewormer, arc, to the touch Cold, So Quick - 
flitter is the Coldejl of Mettals, becaufe it is fullefl of Spirit. 
The Sixth Caufe of Cold is the Chafing and Driutng away ojSpirits, fucii 
as hauefome Degree of Heat: For the Banifhingof the Heat mu ft needs 
leaue any Body Cold. This wee fee in the Operation of Opium, and Stu- 
pefattiues, vpon the Spirits of liuing Creatures : And it were notamifle 
to try Opium, by laying it vpon the Top of a weather-Glajfe, to fee whe¬ 
ther it will contrad the -Aire But I doubt it will not fucceed : For be- 
fidesthattheVertueof Opium will hardly penetrate rhorowfuch a Body 
as Glafle, Iconceitie that Opium, and the like, make the Spirits flye ra¬ 
ther by Malignity , than by Cold. 
Seuenthly, the fame EjfeB muft follow vpon the Exhaling ox Drawing 
out ofthe war me Spirits, that doth vpon the Flight of the Spirits. There is 
an Opinion, that the Moone is Magneticall of Heat, as the Sunne is of Cold 
and Moifiure: It were not amide therefore to try it, with Warmc-waters • 
The one expofed to the Beames of the Moone ■ the other with fome 
Skreene betwixt the Beames of the Moone and the water As wee vie to 
the for Shade 5 And to fee whether the former will coole fooner. 
And it were alio good to enquire, what other Meanes there may bee, to 
draw forth the Exile Heat , w hich is in the Aire ■, for that may be a Secret 
of great Power to Produce Cold weather. 
Wee haue formerly fet do wne the Meanes of turning Aire into 
water, in the Experiment 27. But becaufe it is Magnate Nature j 
And tendeth to the fubduing of a very great effect j And isalfo 
of Manifold vfe; wee will adde fome Inftances in Qonjort that 
giue light thereunto. 
It is reported by fome of the Ancients, that Sailers haue vied, eucry 
Night, to hang Fleeces of Wooll on theiidesof their Ships, the Wooll to¬ 
wards the water • And that they haue crufhed freili Water out of them, 
in the Morning, for their vfe. And thus much we haue tried, that a Quan- 
ti ty of wooll tied loole together, being let downe into a dee pe well ; And 
hangiug in the Middle, fome three Fathome from the Water, fora night, 1 
in the Winter time 5 increafcd in weight, (as I now remember) to a 
fifth Part. 
It is reported by one of the Ancients , that in Lydia, neere Pe;gamut , 
there were certaine work e-men, in time of War res, fled into Caues 5 And 
the Mouth of the Caues being flopped by the Enemies, they were rami* 
fhed. But long time after the dead Bones were found • And fome Vef- 
fels which they had carried with them \ And the Veflels full of Water 5 
And that water, thicker, and more towards Ice, than Common Water: 
which is a Notable Inftanceof condenfation , and Induration , by Buriali 
'vnder Earth, (in Caues) for long time; And of <verfion alfo (as it tliould 
feeme) of Aire into Water ; if any of thofe Veflels were Empty. Try 
therefore a fmall Bladder hung in Snow 3 And the like in Nitre 5 And the j 
