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

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              (for ought we could diſcern) as it would
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              have otherwiſe done: So that before the
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              Fire or the Match was quite extinct, the
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              Bladder appear'd ſwell'd at leaſt to ſix or
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              ſeven times its former capacity. </s>
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              <s>Since the writing of theſe laſt Lines,
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              we took a ſmall Receiver, capable of
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              containing (by gueſs) about a pound and
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              a half of Water; and in the midſt of it
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              we ſuſpended a lighted Match, but though
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              within one minute of an hour (or there­
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              abouts) from the putting in of the Match,
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              we had cemented on the Cover, yet we
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              could not make ſuch haſte, but that before
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              we began to pump, the Smoke had ſo
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              fill'd that ſmall Receiver, as for ought we
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              diſcern'd, to choke the Fire. </s>
              <s>And having
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              again and again reiterated the Experi­
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              ment, it ſeem'd ſtill as at firſt, that we
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              could not cloſe up the Veſſel and pump
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              out all the Fumes time enough to reſcue
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              the Fire from Extinction; whereupon we
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              made uſe of this Expedient. </s>
              <s>Aſſoon as
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              we had pump'd once or twice, we ſudden­
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              ly turn'd the Key, and thereby gave acceſs
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              to the excluded Air, which ruſhing vio­
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              lently in, as if it had been forced thorow
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              a pair of Bellows, did both drive away
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              the aſhes, fill the Glaſs with freſh Air, and </s>
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