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The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6)

Note 705 — BOOK II. AN ACCOUNT OF THE WORLD AND THE ELEMENTS. (continued 2)

John Bostock translation

We may conceive of a quantity of inflammable vapour on the surface of the naphtha, which might, in some degree, produce the effect here described.

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