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# Title: Lexicon Technicum: Or, An Universal English Dictionary Of Arts And Sciences (shelfmarks Leibn. Marg. 71; ZEN Leibn. Marg. 71)
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A. Common Spear Mint: Sprins Water.
Wcipheolee) Ncishe Samuqreste ot 
lane wssen ca- bychePlane du. Wacer expended
en our o che, rins che27 days) upon chc Planc.
1 255861.
B. Common Spear Mint: Rain Water
creale oF the PLAHE 1O
theexpence ostheWa-
LCL
452 Cr. 1 17 =CF. 1 3004 Or. I AS L EO () + 33
C. Common Spear Mint: Thames Water.
34 bF. 1 26 CF. 1 2493CF. I A51109533
D. Common Solanum, OE Nishe Shade: Sprins Water
106 Or. 1 57 OF. 1. 3708Gr. I ASF E
E. Larhyris seu Caraputia Gerh. Sprins Water.
33
101 = 6r. 1 3= Cr. 1 2501 Cr. I AS F19714 3.
The Specimen D had several Duds uxon it When ) Thus cher Rood che whole 77 Days in the lame
sirst sec in Water; chese in some dars Became Fair. Windou wich che rest; when upon Pxaminarion
Flomers, which ivere ac lensch. succceded by Ber-  PFound none ot che Water in thele wasted or gone
ries. Sereral orher Planes vere ceyd, thac did
OH: Thoush L observed, boch in chele, aud che
norchrire in Warer, or succeed anr berter rhan che rest, especiallr atter hor Weacher, (mall Drops ot
Caraputia Foresoins.
Warer nor unsike Deu, adhering torhe insides ot
The Viols Fand G, vere Alled, che former wich the Glasses, chac part oF them L mCan, thac Was
Rain, and che orher ith sprins Water, ac che abore che Surtace oF the enclo(ed WVacerS.
Pame rime as chole abore mentioned vere, and
The Wacer in chese rvo Gilasses thac had no
Rood as lone as they did; bur cher had neither ot Planes in them, at the end oFche ExpexlmenE, ex-
them any Plane; my delion in chese beins onlr r0
inform my selt, Whecher ans Wacer exhaled out
OF che Glasses, otherwise chan chrouph che Bodies
OF the PlaNES. The Orifices oF thele evo Glasses
avere corered irh Parchment; each piece ot ie be-
ins pertorared wirh an hole of the Tame bignels
avith thole oF the Viols abore; In this I Tuspended
tibiced a larger quantier oF Terrestrial Macter
than thac in any oF thole chat had the Planes in
them did. The Sediment at the BOrOm OF the
Viols ras grearer, and the Nubeculae distused chro
che Body oF the Wacer chicker. And oF thaL
wrhich as in che ochers, lome ot it proceeded
trom cerrain (mall Leares chachad Fallen From rhat
a bit oE Scick abour che chicknels oF the Scem oF) parr of ehe Scems oF the Plants that was wichin che
one oE the Forelaid Plants, bur nor reachins donn
Wacer, Wvherein cher rored and disolved. The
eo che Surtace oF the included Warer; I pur Terrestrial Matter in the Rain Water, Was finet
them in thus, thac the Wacer in thele mighE nOE
Have mere Hopc 10 cvaporare chan chae in ihe
ocher Hi03.
chan chac in che dprins Water.
roporrion oF the en-
WeigheoFche
Plauc wohen firte
DE in WVacet
acet.
42 CF. 1 15O
Experimm ents,
A + 10
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