Boyle, Robert, New experiments physico-mechanicall, touching the spring of the air and its effects, 1660

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              throughout; we cauſ'd it in the lately
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              mention'd Wier, to be ſpeedily convey'd
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              and ſhut up into the Receiver, being de­
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              ſirous to try what would become of a
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              glowing Body, by reaſon of its texture
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              more vehemently hot then a burning
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              Coal of the ſame bigneſs, & yet unlike to
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              ſend forth ſuch copious & ſtifling Fumes:
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              But we could not obſerve any manifeſt
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              change upon the exſuction of the Air.
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              <s>The Iron began indeed to loſe its Fiery
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              redneſs at the top, but that ſeem'd to be
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              becauſe it was it the upper end ſomewhat
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              more ſlender then at the lower: The red­
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              neſs, though it were in the day time, con­
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              tinued viſible about four minutes; and
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              then, before it did quite diſ-appear, we
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              turn'd the Key of the Stop-cock but
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              could not diſcern any change of the Iron
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              upon the ruſhing in of the Air. </s>
              <s>Yet ſome
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              little remainders of Wax that ſtuck to
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              the Wier, and were turn'd into Fumes by
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              the heat of the neighboring Iron, ſeem'd
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              to afford a more plentiful, or at leaſt a
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              much more free expanded ſmoke when
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              the Air was ſuck'd out, then afterwards;
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              though allowance was made for the de­
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              creaſing heat of the Iron. </s>
              <s>And laſtly,
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              notwithſtanding a conſiderable exſuction </s>
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