Silver one) & then put to it a little [ 'of our the Liquor' deleted] very strong & smoking Vitriolic Spirit of Nitre, made after our way, These Ingredients presently began to act on one another, & the Cotton to grow black, & to emit a['n' at end of word deleted] very thick Smoke, which was in a trice follow'd by <a large>[replacing 'an'] actual Flame, [ 'very' deleted] as shining at least as that of a Candle, & somewhat more yellow; < [ '(' deleted]Save that in one or two places it was of a fine blew, upon the account, as I suppose of some corroded [ 'C' deleted] Particles of the Copper Spoon [ ')' deleted] >[insertion in margin ] It was accompany'd with Smoke, issuing out at the top, as Flames usually are, & [ 'being turn' deleted] being blown out, <soon> rekindled of it self. § But this Tryal having been made, [ 'so near the fire' deleted] because < it 'twas>[replacing 'of the'] cold['ness' at end of word deleted] Weather, so near the fire, that some of the Fumes that issu'd from the Mixture before the Flame broke forth, might by a Sceptic be pretended to have been kindl'd thereby, & so the fire be propagated to the Spoon; we repeated the Experiment, in [ 'an' deleted] another place (having divers Spoons at hand) & found, as we expected, that it succeeded as before; [ '&' deleted] save that, because Tryal was <well &> carefully made, the success was somewhat better; for the Flame being blown out three or 4 several times, was spontaneously rekindl'd, & the Cotton burnt a long while after without Flame like a piece of Charcoal or a lump or Tinder.

But because I [ 'suspected' deleted] doubted, whether every Essential Oyl as such might be proper for this Experiment, I thought fit to make Tryal of it with Oyl of Anise-seeds, that being different from most other Chymical Oyls, that it will Coagulate of it self, even in moderately cold Weather. Wherefore we took some, that <seemd>[replacing 'was appear'd'] totally Congeal'd, (as they express it) & by that Sign appear'd to be pure & unsophisticated; & having with Heat reduc'd it to Fluidity, we proceeded with it as with the Oyl of Carvi; but found, that thô the Mixture afforded Smoke, yet it afforded no Flame at all. So great an interest has Texture in this Affair.

To shew that among fluid Essential Oyls, that of Carvy is not the single one, that is fit to afford a Flame; we took about the bigness of a Walnut of Cotton, & having drench'd it in Chymical Oyl of Juniper, & press'd it a little to free it from superfluous Liquor, we put to it in a Copper Spoon, <some>[replacing 'some'] of our strong Vitriolic Spirit of Nitre; upon which it did immediately, as we expected, send up, together with copious Fumes, a