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It was farther supposd that the greatest transpiration of the
body was made by the lungs. and that some creatures did hardly
sweat. Wherevpon Dr . . . Aglionby suggested that the Driuell of a
Dog heated wth. Running was not ordinary saliua but
seemed to be the sweat of the Dog mixed wth it.

vpon the mention of the Relation Read the last day about
a passage to the top of the Pike of Tenariff seuerall de:
bates arose concerning the height of the cloudes and concer:
ning the nature of them.

Sr. Iohn Hoskins obserued that by this relation the cloudes
were as high as the top of the pike and that they some
times couerd it and made the earth very moyst & clammy

Dr. Wallis and some others affirmed that they had rode through
clouds at the tops of hills. which there appeard a
mist but both before they enterd it & after they had passed
it It lookd like a cloude and was really nothing els.


After this a Letter was Reard from Theodorus Kerckrin
=gius of Hamborough sent to the President Returning his
^ /great sensiblenesse/ Gratefall acknowledgment and of the Hone. & fauour done
him in chusing him a member of this Society & Declared
his Desire & rediness to serue the Designe of the society
to the vtmost of his power.
The Expt. for the next day was the tryall of the all.
Expt. at the Column at fish street hill.