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

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1(for ought we could diſcern) as it would
have otherwiſe done: So that before the
Fire or the Match was quite extinct, the
Bladder appear'd ſwell'd at leaſt to ſix or
ſeven times its former capacity.

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

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