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Herhs in the Boyliog, was of it seif Thick and rather Blaeiiß , than of anyother Colour; yet bring Stirr’d it Sbined, and all thc Fijh appear’d moreBrightly Luminous m their own Shapes.

Whercver the Drops of this Water (after it was stirr’d) feil on the Ground,orBenches, tbey Shinedt And the Childrentook Drops in their Hands, asi>road as a Permy, and running wich tbem about the House, and each Dropboth neer and at Distance, seem’d, by their Shming, as broad as a Six~pcnce,or a Shilling, or broader.

The Look tumed up the side of the Fißi which was Lowest, and thencecameno Shining: and after the Water was for fönte good timeSetled, andfully at Rest, it did not Shine at all.

.On Tuesday night May 9. we repeated the same Tryal, and found thesame Effects. The Water, till it was Stirr’d gave no Light, but was Thieleand Dark, as we saw by Day Light , andby Candle- Light: As soon as theLooks Hand was thrust into the Water, it began to have a Glimmering -but being gently stirred by the Hand moving Round it did so Shine, thatthey who Looked on it at some Distance, front the further End of ano-ther Room, thought verily it was the Shining of the Moon through 3Window upon a Veffel of Milk ; and by brisker Circulation it seem’d toFlame.

The Fifa did then Shine as well front the Inside as the Outside, and chief-ly from the Threat, and such places as scemed a little Brojcen in the Boyling.

1 took a piece, that Sbined Most, and Fitted it as well as I could devise mthe Night, both to my great Microfccpe , and afterwards to my little one:But I could discern no Light by any of these Gläßet, nor front any Drops ofthe Sbin'mg Water, when put into the GlaJJet. And May 10. in theBrightest Rays of ,the Sun, I Examined in my Great Altcrojcope, a senilbroken piece of the Fiß, which Sbined most the Night before; Wecould find nothing on the Surface of the Fißi very Remarkable. . It.scem’d Whitiß, and in a qtanner Dried, with Deep Inequalities; Andbthers, as well as my seif, thought, we Saw a -Stream, rather Darktß.than Luminbus, arising, like a very sei all Dust, from the Fißi: Anararely, here and there, a very Small and almost Imperceptible Sparkle inthe Fiß. Yet of these Sparkks we are certain; we nUmbred tbem, and' agreed in tbe .Nuntber, Order, and Place. Of the Steam I am not Con-fident, but do Sufpect our Eyes in the Brtght Sun ; or that it might be'fbmeDufi in the Air. * - ' v -

The Great Micrtftope being fitted m the Day Light for this piece of Fiß,we Examined it that Night, and it Yielded' no Light at all, either by theView of the Glast,, or otherwisc.

Finding it Drj, 1 thought that the Moislure of Spittle , and Touching ofit,might Lause it to Shine : And so it did, though but a very Little, in a fewsmall Sparks, which soon Extinguß?t. This we saw with the BareEye,n<itin the Glast.

The Fißi were not yet Fetid, nor infipH to the best diseeming Palats:And I caused two Fißi to bc kept for sei ther Tryal, r or z Darf longer,

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