its coming into the water make such a brisk noise, as might almost pass for a kind of Explosion.]
These Phænomena seem to argue, that the Disposition that Lime has to grow hot with water, depends much on some peculiar Texture, since the aqueous parts, that one would think capable of quenching all or most of the Atomes of Fire that are supposed to adhere to Quick-lime, did not near so much weaken the disposition of it to Incalescence, as the accession of the spirituous Corpuscles and their Contexture, with those of the Lime, increased that igneous Disposition. And that there might intervene such an association, seems to me the more probable, not onely because much of the distill'd Liquor was as phlegmatick, as if it had been robb'd of its more active parts, but because I have sometimes had Spirit of Wine come over with Quick-lime not in unobserved steams, but white fumes. To which I shall adde, that, besides that the Taste, and perhapsOdour
