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way. This is taken from the General Advertiser of
Thursday or Friday Decr.—24 or 25th. There is about
a column in the whole respecting the Transactions
of the Soc:y Perhaps I may send it you when you
get to Petersburgh.

14. Heat.

Crawford on Heat. An interesting publication, containing
several original views and interesting experiments.
I have seen only an extract in the Reviews.
I shall get it and send you: it is well spoken
of. The 1st edition is out of print: the 2d in
the press.

15. Airs

Fontana has found that air receives more injury
from the lungs by fix: & air than by
phlogiston: and by breathing dephlogistuated air
insulated by a lime- water stopple, he breathes it thirty
times as long as he could if insulated by a
stopple of common water. The receiver floats
in a cistern of limewater, & he breathes by a
bent tube. This seems to agree with Troestwych.
It is published in the to Ingenhautz's book
which I have. in 24 hours
21,600 cub. inches of any what air.) 1 lb
of nitre yields 12,000 of dephlogd. air. Ingenhaus's
book you shall have: it contains many various
facts. 1. This. 2. the calculn. in the

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Date_1	1779-12-18	Marginal Summary Numbering
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