The New Hampshire Gazette Newspaper, September 11, 1761, Page 1

t — » LY 5 . B * 0 l"nlé Y xperiment 1it. \ ' N ( i | ? ERIDAY, SEPTEMEER ¥T. 1761, THE - New-Hampfhire Containing the Frefbeft Advices, To the PRINTER. HE Fatality of Damps has been long known : But no One, that [ remember, has endeavoured to trace their Effeéts to anv philofophical Caufe. ,Whether we have a fufficient Number of Experiments, in order to difcover the true Nature of them, is a Doubt with me : fo far however as Ex- periments lead us, we masy carry on our Enquiries with fafety. 4 ’ 3 T{c Dampo;- s they ure czdh Are. frequently ob- ferv’d among the Miners in England ; who have aivid- ed them, according to their feveral different Properties into four Species ;: The firft only is common to Mines and Wells ; The other three have been hitherto found - incident only to Mines. ‘ The Approach of the common Damp, it is faid,may be generally predi€ted by an unufual, noifome Smell ; and by the Flame of a Candle becoming orbicular or round like a Ball, and gradually diminifhing, till it quite goes out. ; Damps are produced either nawrally or artificially. That at Taunton meationed in your Paper ( No 256Q%7 feems to be caus’d by the Application of Fire : To en- quire therefore into it’s Nature, is jult the fame as to enquire, what Effe&ts may be produc’d by aduft or burnt Airinclos’d in the manner of the Air in the Well at Zauntsn. For by Experiments it appears highly probable, that the whole Effe&sof the Well may be sccounted for, without fuppofing any aoxious Effuvia to alcend from the Earth. To form any Theories concerning themanner in which Damps produce their fatal Effects,would tend very little to the Advantage-of Mankind, or the Improvement of Philofophy. The Particles of Air are finz sand fubtile,and efcape the Obfervation of our Senfes : But we may be well acquainted with fome of their Efi¢ts. The beit and only Way therefore of proceeding with any Prol- pect of Succels is, to deduce general Cinclufions from particular Experiments : To which End the following 2fford fame fmall Degree of AfMnce. A Kitten, or any other Animal being put into adult or burnt Air, falls down immedi- ately convuls’d, much like the Men in the Well at Taun- tow ; and dies in 2 very fhort Time. Henceaduft Air is unfit for Refpiration or the Support of animal Life. A Fire made in any Place,®hro’ which there can be no Succeffion of Air, as in Wells &c. will render tae Air of that Piace sduft proportionably to the Latenfity of the Fire. Dr. DeEsacurLigr bas furnifh’'d us with an Experiment, which proves this, and is asfollows. Take a lighted Candle, and place it in the Bottom of a cylindrical Veffel about two feet long, and an Inch Diameter; having i’s lower End clos'd, a Candie of fix in the Pound will burn but littie longar than aQuarter ofa Minute ; before it goes otit : which fhews, that ithe Air at that Time is rendered aduft; for a Can- dle goes immediately out in fuch Air., . Experimen: 34. Fix a Pipe in the Bottom of the Vellel, which can communicate with the external Air; and it will caule hardly any Alteration in the Time of the Candle’s Burning. Experiment 4th. Let the Airbe drivent in gently at the Orifice, as with a Pair of Bellows ; and the Candle will continue burning as in open Air. This Experi- ment points out a Method of removing the aduft Air, and ofintroducing innocent Air in it’s Stead. Experimeat 5th. Thiggs remaining as in the fecond Experiment, iacreafe’¢he Aduftion of the Air by ap- plying fome Body, whofe Heat is more intenfe than the . Flameof a Candle : And the (ame Phzoomena may be ,obferv’d upon immerfing Animals into the Veflel; as were obferved in the Well at Tazston. From thele Experiments it appears, that more Caules ought not to be admitted in explaining fuch a Damp as that at Taunton, than the adoft S ate of the Air in that Place, which slone is fufficicnt. Yet perhaps other Caulfes alfo m1y concur in bringing ahout the Effe& - For in trying the fifth Experiment with two diferzat Vellels, one of Wood, and the other of Tin, [ took Notice of a manifeft Differencein the Effe@, notwich- flanding the Degree of Heat was nearly the fime in both. The Tin Veflel in fa& killed much fooner, than the wooden one : And I imagine, a Copper Veflel would have & much more fpeedy Effect then either. For according to fome accurate Experiments made ( I think ) by Mr. BoyLE, the inteftine Motion of the Fil- ings of Copper greatly diminifhes the Spring of the con- tiguous Air. - Perhaps the Rock in the Bottom of the dampened Well might perform in a fmall Degree what smetalline Bodies are found todo in a very fenfible Man- ner. - Dr. Hares by feveral curious Experiments, which he laid before the Royal Society, has made it highly probable, that the Neceflity ofAir in maintaining ani- " et s e e e - mal, 1s well as vegetable Life, is awing to it's Spriag or elaftic Power. * It is thskelore to-be koped, fome Perfon of Curoifity has meafoskd ( which is cafly enoogh for him to do with a [mall Bell ) the Degree of the Elafticity of the Air in the Weil at Taantor. . Naturalifts tell us, that #84n generally breathsabeut 2 Gallon of Airin a Minute} and s Candle of {ix to the Pound will burn nearly as ong in the fameQuantity : Hence we may determine vety eafily, whether any Air is pure enough for Breathing ' Partfmouth, Sept. 7. 17 MER o i ® Now if the fatal Effeéts of aduff Air could be really proved to arile from it's Want of Elaflicity 5 and if tbe Want of Elafticityin the dir be fuddenDeath to Animals ; Then any thing, which can reflore Elaflicity to the Air, without impregnating it with any moxious Qualities,would render it fit for Refpiration : Whether there can be con- trived a Compofition with the above Limitation, Time and Experience can enly dijcover. A Clergyman’s ReFLECTIONS on the Death of one of bis pious Parifbioners. F my dear Flock one more is gone T’ appear before th® Almighty’s Threns, And pafs the grand decifive Teit, ¢ Afhes to Afhes, Duft to Duft ;” Surviving Friends with Tears intruft, There till th’ eternal Doom to reft. The Scul, difmils’d from cumbrous Clay, Expadiates in eternal Day, And with the Great ImMorTAL dwells 3 The Dawn of Immortality With Scenes amazing ftrikes the Eye, Arnd Wonders new and vaft reveals. Thus whillt I’m dreaming Life away, Or Books or Studies fill the Day, My Flock is dying one by one, Convey’d beyond my warning Voice, To endlefs Pain or endlefls Joys, For ever happy or undoae. - I tao ere long muft yield my Breath, My Mouth for ever thut in Death, Nor found the Goipel Trumpet more: Then may I, whiift they’re in my Reach, With Fervour pray, with Fervour preach, And eager caich the flying Hour. Almighty Grace my Zzal inflame, O free me from this {luggifh Frame, And fire my Breaft with vigorous Love ; O ! teach me that divineft Art, To reach the Confcience, warm the Heart, And all the tender Paifions move. Lt \atmpmond \am ) o\ () \ st ) ot PN e ILLON DO N, Fume 5. The Author’of, A Word toa Right Hon. Commoner, fpeaking of our continental Connexions, obferves, ¢ Had but one Third of our Money bzen expended in America, that is annually exported to Germany, the French would not, at this Time, have intheir Hands that vaft and important Province of Louifiana ; nor the Ifle of Martinico. But while we wafte Millions in fupporting a German War, from which ali impartial and fenfible Men will readily allow, we can reap no Advantsge ; we can afford Thoufands to be expended in enlarging our Commerce, without being loaded with the moft grievous and infupportable Impofitions. It ought to be a Maxim with the En- glith Government; that whenéver they are determined toattack France by Land, they muft engage in a pow- erful Confederacy againft her; for when we'take Pruf- fia alone, or Aultria alone, the throwing the other into the Arms of France is the certain Confequence ; and the Interefts of Prufiia and Auftria are fo different, they can never be brought to unite sgainft France. There- fore we, inftead of having any ufual Friend, have only a needy Ally ; which turns the Scale againft us.” L O N D O N, April 18. A Parony o CATQ’s SoriLoQuy, writien i & Country Aflembly-Room, waiting for the Fiddlers, T muft be fo ——Mufick, thou charmeft well —= Elfe whence this pleafing Hape, this fond Defire, This longing after Dancing ! ©Or whence this fecret Dread, and inward Thought, Of ablent Fidlers ! Why fhrinks ¢he Body Intoitlelf, and flumbers with Inaétion ! Itisthe Joy that moves within us, *Tis Life itfeff, that points out to us Dancing, And intimateth Harmony to Man. Harmony ! what pleafing chearful Sounds ! O’er what Variety of well tun'd Strings, Through what num’rous Inftruments may ye pafs ! The Viol,Lute and Harp, all lie before me, But only Dirt and Clouds of Daft reft on them. Nu Here will ] hold, 1f ¢k ~ WHEREAS Application hath : r'fi“figfie fince this Papees { was ‘it Publifh’d. ol uB. 258 is # Fidler {And that there is ooy 2!l the Parifh knows, ; Through all her Alclcufei] he muit delight to play, And that which he ¢ +ligh' in makes us happy. Bat who ! or where ! thisidiunken Fellow i3 — I'm weary of Conj:€ vres—This wilk end them, ; e [Enter FipLER ] Province ov Uew-HampsuirE. 70 Mr. Clement Su:minel, one of the Proprictors of the S been made (0 me the Sublfcriber, one of his Majelty’s Juftices of the Peace for the Province aforefaid, by the Owners of/ more than a Sixteenth Part of the common and undivided Lands in the Townfhip of Boy/, in faid Province, [or the calling a Meeting of the Proprietors sforefaid ; and that the (ame May be held at the Houle o' Mr. Peter Haywood, of Wefimoreland, on the Six- teenth of O&ober next, st Ten of the Clock in the Forenoon ; and that the following Articles might bein~ ferted in the Warning, as 1. To chufe a Moderator. 2. To chufe & Proprietor’s Clerk. 3. To chufea Col- lector to colleét and gather in the Rates and Taxes ; and chule & Proprietors T'reafurer. 4. To fee if the Pro- prictors will draw the Lottsasthey are lsidout. 5. To fee if the Proprietors will sgree te raife any Sum or 8ums of Money, to be lodged in the Hands of the Treafurer, to pay Town Charges, or any other publick Matter that fhall be agreed on. 6. To chufe s Com- mittee or Committees to tranfact any Affairs that fhall beneeded: 7. To chufe Affeflors, and to act any Mat- ter or Thing to bring forward the Settlement of feid Town. g I do in Confequence of fuchApplication made to me; Notify and Warn the Proprictors aforefsid, to meet st the Houfe and Place above mentioned ; then and there, when met, and duly formed,to alt on the feveral Ar- ticles above mentioned, as the Occ:fion and Bufinefs of the Meeting call for ; and fee that you the aforefaid Clement Szmmer bave this my Warrant or Notificaticn in the New Hamp/bir¢ News Paper, three Weeks fuccel- fively, before the Dy of holding faid Meeting, being the moft likely Plate to give the Proprietors Notice thereof, and that yqu make Return of your Doings herein on the Day dorelsid. : GIVEN under my Hand ard Scal, this 14th Day of Auguft, A. D. Om Thonjand [even Hundred and lixty One, and in the Fitff Year of bis Majefly's Reign. Benjapuin Berrows, Juflice of Peace. Provinceor New-HaMPsHIRE NOTICE is hereby given to the Proprietors of New Hipkington, ( lo called ) in the Pro< vince of New- Hampthire, to meet at the Houfe where the Inhabitants of fiid Town ulually meet for the Pub~ lic Worfhip of God, on Wednefdsy the 30th of Sep< tember Inftant, at Eight of the Clock in the Forenoony then and thereto Vote and A& upon the following Things, viz. 1. To fee if faid Proprietors will Vote the Rev. Mr. Seales his Sallery that was Stated on him when he was Ordained,and fee whether they will make it any larger. 2. Tofeeif faid Proprietors will chufe s Proprietor’s Treafurer; and a Committe to reckon and fettle with the old Treafurer. 3. To fee if faid Proprietors will Vote to raife fuch a Sum or Sums of Money as fhall be thought neceffary, to purchafe sll the Lands that can be purchafed of the Proprietors or Claimers of Bow,Townfhip, within our, Claims. 4. To feé if faid Proprietors will Vote to raife fuch a Sum or Sums of Money, as fhall be thought Neceflary to defray the Charge of building faid Meeting Houfe, that was Voted at our laft Proprietors Mecting, to be built in faid New- Hopkington. 5. To fee it faid Proprietors will Vote to chule fuch Officers and Committes as fhall be thought necefiary to carry onanyBufinefs, that fhall beVoted to be done: Alfo to chufe Colleétors to gather the Money that fhall be Voted at {aid Meeting to be raifed. 6. To determine what Partof theTax of esch Right fhall be laid upon esch Divifion of the Right,and what Part of the Tax upon the undivided Lands. 7. To Vote whatioever fhall be thought neceflary,’ relating to High Ways in faid New-Flopkington. 8. Toratify and confirm or amend anyVote orGrant paflzd or made heretofore by faid Proprictors, that may be thought not fufliciently valued and plain, and to do and tranfat any other Bufine(s that may then and there be thought neceflary and lawlul. New Hophington, ~ Timothy Clement, ) Com. to czil Sept. 2. Matbew Standley, Proprietors Epach Eaftman, M eetings.