EXPERIMENT X.
- Octob. 19. 78. RAW Beef being shut up with stale Beer,* 1.1 compress'd till the Mercury rose 60 Digits above it's usual height. In another it was shut up with Beer uncompress'd: And in a third, the Receiver was fill'd with common Air.
- Octob. 20. In the first it sunk 40 Digits. In the second, a little. In the third, it ascended a little.
- Octob. 26. In the first, it ascended and descend∣ed irregularly: It ascended slowly in the second. In the third it was at a stand.
- Oct. 27. A Piece left in the Air, began to smell ill: In the second and third, the Mercury as∣cended: In the first it descended.
- Nov. 3. In the second, it was 20; in the third, 10 Digits high.
- Nov. 5. The two first did not stink, but the Flesh had got a Taste from it; and being boil'd in it, was tender. That included with common Air, stunk. But the same piece of Beef being shut up again with Air. Nov. 6. Mercury was rais'd 3 Digits. Nov. 11. 8. Nov. 25. 20 Di∣gits. The Flesh stunk.
- Hence it appears, that Beer may preserve Beef, when compress'd for some time.