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

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              deal of Air and Smoke mixt together was
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              drawn out, whereby the Receiver grow­
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              ing more clear, we could diſcern the Fire
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              in the Match to burn more and more lan­
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              guidly: And notwithſtanding that by the
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              diligence uſ'd in Pumping, it ſeem'd to
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              have room enough allow'd it to throw
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              out Fumes; yet after no long time it
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              ceaſ'd from being diſcernable either by its
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              Light or its Smoke. </s>
              <s>And though by
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              that we were invited to ſuppoſe it quite
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              extinguiſhed, yet we continu'd pumping
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              a while, in proſecution of another Expe­
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              riment we were trying at the ſame time:
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              And this we did the more willingly be­
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              cauſe of a ſuſpicion the Experiment a­
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              bout the Coals might eaſily ſuggeſt, and
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              which the event declar'd not to have been
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              altogether groundleſs. </s>
              <s>For upon the
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              Admiſſion of the external Air, the Fire,
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              that ſeem'd to have gone out a pretty
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              while before, did preſently revive; and
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              being as it were refreſh d by the new Air,
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              and blown by the Wind made by that
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              Air in ruſhing in, it began again to ſhine
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              and diſſipate the neighboring Fuel into
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              Smoke as formerly. </s>
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