Bacon, Francis, Sylva sylvarum : or, a natural history in ten centuries
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            or no ſmell; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3649" xml:space="preserve">ſo that the ſmell is a ſecond ſmell that iſſueth out of the Flower
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            after wards.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s3651" xml:space="preserve">THe continuance of Flame, according unto the diverſity of the Body en-
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            flamed, and other circumſtances, is worthy the enquiry; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3652" xml:space="preserve">chiefly, for
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0115-02" xlink:href="note-0115-02a" xml:space="preserve">Experiments
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              in Conſort,
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              touching the
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              Continuance
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              of Flame.</note>
            that though Flame be (almoſt) of a momentany laſting, yet it receiveth the
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            More, and the Leſs: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3653" xml:space="preserve">We will firſt therefore ſpeak (at large) of Bodies en-
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            flamed, wholly, and immediately, without any Wiek to help the Inflamma-
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            tion. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3654" xml:space="preserve">A ſpoonful of Spirit of Wine, a little heated was taken, and it burnt
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            as long as came to 116 Pulſes. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3655" xml:space="preserve">The ſame quantity of Spirit of Wine, mixed
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            with the ſixth part of a ſpoonful of Nitre, burnt but to the ſpace of 94
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            Pulſes. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3656" xml:space="preserve">Mixed with the like quantity of Bay-Salt 83 Pulſes. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3657" xml:space="preserve">Mixed with the
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            like quantity of Gun-powder, which diſſolved into a Black-water 110
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            Pulſes. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3658" xml:space="preserve">A Cube or Pellet of Yellow Wax, was taken, as much as half the
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            Spirit of Wine, and ſet in the midſt, and it burnt onely to the ſpace of 87
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            Pulſes. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3659" xml:space="preserve">Mixed with the ſixth part of a ſpoonful of Milk, it burnt to the
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            ſpace of 100 Pulſes; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3660" xml:space="preserve">and the Milk was crudled. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3661" xml:space="preserve">Mixed with the ſixth part
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            of a ſpoonful of Water, it burnt to the ſpace of 86 Pulſes; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3662" xml:space="preserve">with an equal
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            quantity of Water, onely to the ſpace of four Pulſes. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3663" xml:space="preserve">A ſmall Pebble
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            was laid in the midſt, and the Spirit of Wine burnt to the ſpace of 94
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            Pulſes. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3664" xml:space="preserve">A piece of Wood of the bigneſs of an Arrow, and about a Fingers
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            length, was ſet up in the midſt, and the Spirit of Wine burnt to the ſpace
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            of 94 Pulſes. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3665" xml:space="preserve">So that the Spirit of Wine Simple, endureth the longeſt, and
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            the Spirit of Wine with the Bay-ſalt, and the equal quantity of Water, were
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            the ſhorteſt.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s3667" xml:space="preserve">Conſider well, whether the more ſpeedy going forth of the Flame, be
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            cauſed by the greater vigor of the Flame in burning; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3668" xml:space="preserve">or by the reſiſtance of
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            the Body mixed, and the averſion thereof to take Flame: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3669" xml:space="preserve">Which will appear
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            by the quantity of the Spirit of Wine, that remaineth after the going out of
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            the Flame. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3670" xml:space="preserve">An
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            d it ſeemeth clearly to be the latter, for that the mixture of
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            things leaſt apt to burn, is the ſpeedieſt in going out, and note by the
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            way, that Spirit of Wine burned, till it go out of it ſelf, will burn no more,
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            and taſteth nothing ſ
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            o hot in the mouth as it did; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3671" xml:space="preserve">no nor yet ſour, (as
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            if it were a degree to wards Vinegar) which burnt Wine doth, but flat and
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            dead.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s3673" xml:space="preserve">Note, that in the Experiment of Wax aforeſaid, the Wax diſſolved in
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            the burning, and yet did not incorporate it ſelf with the Spirit of Wine, to
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            produce one Flame; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3674" xml:space="preserve">but whereſoever the Wax floated, the Flame ſorſook
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            it; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3675" xml:space="preserve">@ill at laſt it ſpred all over and put the Flame quite out.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s3677" xml:space="preserve">The Experiments of the Mixtures of the Spirit of Wine enflamed, are
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            things of diſcovery, and not of uſe: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3678" xml:space="preserve">But now we will ſpeak of the continu
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            ance of Flames, ſuch as are uſed for Candles, Lamps, or Tapers, conſiſting
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            of Inflamable Matters, and of a Wiek that provoketh Inflamation. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3679" xml:space="preserve">And this
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            importeth not onely diſcovery, but alſo uſe and profit; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3680" xml:space="preserve">for it is a great
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            ſaving in all ſuch Lights, if they can be made as fair and right as others, and
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            yet laſt longer. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3681" xml:space="preserve">Wax pure made into a Candle, and Wax mixed ſeverally
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            into Candle-ſtuff with the particulars that follow, (Viz. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3682" xml:space="preserve">Water, Aqua-vitæ,
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            Milk, Bay-ſalt, Oyl, Butter, Nitre, Brimſtone, Saw duſt,) every of theſe bear-
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            ing a ſixth part to the Wax; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3683" xml:space="preserve">and every of theſe Candles mixed, being
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            of the ſame weight and wiek, with the Wax pure, proved thus in the
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            burning, and laſting. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3684" xml:space="preserve">The ſwifteſt in conſuming was that with Saw-
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            duſt, which firſt burned fair till ſome part of the Candle was </s>
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