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Article CANT PHRASES IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE EXPLAINED. ← Page 6 of 6 Article PHILOSOPHICAL EXPERIMENTS. Page 1 of 3 →
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Cant Phrases In The University Of Cambridge Explained.
the year 1741 , intituled , The pretty Bar-keeper of ihe Mitre . I be * leave to transcribe the seventh and ei ghth stanzas ; Her snuff-box if the nymph pull'd out , Each Johnian in responsive airs Ted leith tbe l . ckting dust his snout , With all tbe polltesse of hears .
Dropi she her fan beneath her hoop , Ev ' n stake stuck Clarions strove to stoop . The sons of culinary Kays , Smoking from tbe eternal treat , Lost iii extalic transport gaze , As though the fair was good to cat ; / Ev ' n gloomiest Kings-men , pleas'd awhile ,
Grin horribly a ghastly smile . Having engrossed so much of your valuable Miscellany , I shall conclude for the present ; proposing , should these lucubrations prove acceptable , to notice the other passages in your correspondent ' s letter at the next opportunity . A CANTAB . "
Philosophical Experiments.
PHILOSOPHICAL EXPERIMENTS .
IN the volume of Philosophical transactions just published , is a relation of a spontaneous fire which took place in the arsenal at Madrid , and occasioned considerable alarm , from an idea that some incendiary had attempted the destruction of that important building . —A piece of coarse cotton cloth , which was shut up in a box , was found partly reduced to tinder ; it appeared to have been moistened
with linseed oil , was much heated , and the wood of the box was discoloured , as from burning . On examination it was discovered , that a bottle of linseed oil which had stood on the box had been broken during the night ; and it occurred to a gentleman who accidentally visited the arsenal that he had read , that cotton soaked in linseed oil would take five without the aid of any inflamed matter : and it was
presumed the present combustion had been produced by the oil passing into the box , and uniting with the cotton . To determine this point , some of the same kind of cloth was wetted with linseed oil , and shut up closely in a box , which in about three hours began to smoke . ' On opening it the cloth was found in a state similar to that discovered in the arsenal , and , on its being exposed to the air , broke out into a flame .
ON . THE EFFECTS OF ICE BY EXPANSION
WHEN a tract of ice in strong masses is spread over the ground , and otherwise continues to be formed underneath , where there is not room for its expansion , as in the Glaciers of Switzerland , the ice
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Cant Phrases In The University Of Cambridge Explained.
the year 1741 , intituled , The pretty Bar-keeper of ihe Mitre . I be * leave to transcribe the seventh and ei ghth stanzas ; Her snuff-box if the nymph pull'd out , Each Johnian in responsive airs Ted leith tbe l . ckting dust his snout , With all tbe polltesse of hears .
Dropi she her fan beneath her hoop , Ev ' n stake stuck Clarions strove to stoop . The sons of culinary Kays , Smoking from tbe eternal treat , Lost iii extalic transport gaze , As though the fair was good to cat ; / Ev ' n gloomiest Kings-men , pleas'd awhile ,
Grin horribly a ghastly smile . Having engrossed so much of your valuable Miscellany , I shall conclude for the present ; proposing , should these lucubrations prove acceptable , to notice the other passages in your correspondent ' s letter at the next opportunity . A CANTAB . "
Philosophical Experiments.
PHILOSOPHICAL EXPERIMENTS .
IN the volume of Philosophical transactions just published , is a relation of a spontaneous fire which took place in the arsenal at Madrid , and occasioned considerable alarm , from an idea that some incendiary had attempted the destruction of that important building . —A piece of coarse cotton cloth , which was shut up in a box , was found partly reduced to tinder ; it appeared to have been moistened
with linseed oil , was much heated , and the wood of the box was discoloured , as from burning . On examination it was discovered , that a bottle of linseed oil which had stood on the box had been broken during the night ; and it occurred to a gentleman who accidentally visited the arsenal that he had read , that cotton soaked in linseed oil would take five without the aid of any inflamed matter : and it was
presumed the present combustion had been produced by the oil passing into the box , and uniting with the cotton . To determine this point , some of the same kind of cloth was wetted with linseed oil , and shut up closely in a box , which in about three hours began to smoke . ' On opening it the cloth was found in a state similar to that discovered in the arsenal , and , on its being exposed to the air , broke out into a flame .
ON . THE EFFECTS OF ICE BY EXPANSION
WHEN a tract of ice in strong masses is spread over the ground , and otherwise continues to be formed underneath , where there is not room for its expansion , as in the Glaciers of Switzerland , the ice