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aining beat be in a greater ratio than the fpecific

gravities ; then, during the time of cooling after be-
ing lufficiently heated, there will le an inftant, when
the heavier body will become the lighter, and fivim
upon the other. This hems the cafe in the buff co-
vermg of inflamed bkc.d, the of heated milk,
and the criftalfiration of (bine faits for if the&
effeCts were from the evaporation of the thinner
parts at the furface, they lhould happen during the
genet) evaporation, or when boiling ; but, on the
contrary, they are all done in the greateft degree
when the liquor has for borne time began to cool.
Laity, If the quicknols of acquiring heat be in a
greater proportion than their ipecific gravities (the
power of expaolion being equal), then, during thc
time of their acquiring heat, there will be an inflant,
when the body, that was heavier when cold, will now
become the lighter. Frorn one or mote of which
principles, I apprehend, the volatility or fixity of all
minerals, and many other bodies, takes its origin.
It is no part of my deign to account to you,
gentlemen, in what manner loch an expanfion of
the parts of hod.. can be brought about by the
aCtion of fire. Tho' perhaps a rotatory motion only
of eaeh particle on its own center might bc fufficient
to produce fuch a rarefaftion ; and thc more fo, if
fuch ports were any other figures than (phew', as
by the percullion of their angles they muft cebIt
further from each other. Nor is the exillence of loch
rotatory motion without form probability, when we
obferve the verticillary motion given to charcool-duft
thrown on nitre in fulion, m the wonderful agitation
of the parrs of burning pholphorus, or even of a
common

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