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be) A TREATISE ON THE CONNECTION OF

a WAST

Is the fluid in which fishes live, and forms part of the support of plants, and of terrestrial animals. It was formerly considered to be a simple uncompounded sub- stance; but it has been discovered by Mr. Cavenpisy to be.a compound body,‘consisting of the basis of in- flammable air and vital air. It is formed naturally, and artificially, by uniting the basis of inflammable air

with vital air, by means of the electric fluid,

Water is capable, under certain circumstances, of con- taining; or uniting with, the-bases of different gasses; it contains, for the mast part, fixable air; to which its power of holding in solution calcareous matter, contained

in most water, is to be ascribed.

Water, by putrefaction, and by the processes of ve- getation and animalization, is capable of being decom-

posed, or having its component parts separated.

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