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; < (Save that in one or two places it was of a fine blew, upon the account, as I suppose of some corroded C Particles of the Copper Spoon ) >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 [Expt], 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.