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parcels of the exhaling matter we arespeaking of may oftentimes be exceedingvast in companion ot the em it tent body, asmay be guested by the distance at whichsome Setters or Bloodhounds will find thescent of a Partridge or Deer; yet in placesexposed to the free Air or Wind, scis verylikely that these steams are aifiduousty carri-ed away from their fountain to maintain theforementioned Atmosphere fof fix, eight ormore hours, that is as long as the scent hathbeen observed to lye, there will be requisitea continual recruit of steams succeeding oneanother. And that so very ‘small a portionof matter, as that which we were faying thefom<?s of these steams may be judged to be,being sensibly to impregnate an Atmospherein comparably greater than its self, and sup-ply it with almost continual recruits , wecannot but think, that the steams it partsw ith, must be of extreme and scarce eon*ceivable minuteness. So lar the Author*To which I shall add, That by the steams, Isuppose, he means the minute Particles ofwhich the steams are compounded. Nowthese minute Particles themselves must becompound Bodies, because they affect thescnee in a particular manner, so that a saga-cious Creature can distinguish by them, notonly Species but Individuals; as a good Dog

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