88. Scalding-hot musty Vinegar was cured by repeated Trials, of near three Gallons in each Trial, by ten Minutes Ventilation. And giving Vinegar a scalding Heat, does not weaken or damage it, as it does Wine, whose vinous Spirit is carried off both by Heat and Ventilation; for when some strong musty Raisin Wine was ventilated hot, it was cured in five Minutes: But the vinous Spirit, which strongly affected the Nose in flying off during Ventilation, being gone off, the vapid Wine would not kindle into a Blaze, when thrown into the Fire, as it did to a great Degree before it was heated and ventilated. Neither musty Wine nor Vinegar were cured, tho’ something bettered by 30 Minutes Ventilation, when cold. 89. Mr. _Jones_, a Chemist in _Cranbourn-Ally, Leicester-Square_, ventilated a Gallon of Proof Malt Spirits 15 Minutes cold, in which time it wasted two Ounces and half; whereas a like Quantity of common cold Water wasted but half an Ounce in 15 Minutes Ventilation, _viz._ but one-fifth part of what the Spirits did; and the same Spirits ventilated hot, wasted no less than 5 Ounces in 5 Minutes; which Ventilation made them sensibly better tasted than the unventilated. But the great Waste shows that these volatile vinous Spirits, ought not to be ventilated, neither hot nor cold. Besides that, the 15 Minutes cold Ventilation had but little Effect in bettering the Spirit. 90. In order to know whether Fish in a Vessel of Water would live the longer for having Showers of Air blown up thro’ the Water, _May 25, 1756_, at seven in the Morning, the Wind N. E. the Mercury in _Farenheit_’s Thermometer, 50 Degrees, and it continued so cold, that at one o’clock it rose but to 60 Degrees; I put twelve Dace into a Pail _A_ in two Gallons of fresh Pond-Water, thro’ which a Stream ran, and twelve more into a Pail _B_, with the like Quantity of Water; one of which Fishes in _B_ was sick, as appeared by turning its Belly upwards; as were also two Fishes in the Pail _A_, which was occasioned by being all brought in a Pail above half a Mile from the _Thames_. 91. At 45 Minutes past 8, most of the Fish in the Pail _B_, were turned Belly upwards, and lay as dead; at 30 Minutes past 9 seven of them were dead; at 30 Minutes past 11 all but three were dead; at two o’clock but two Fish remain alive in _B_; which remained alive, tho’ sick, at ten that Night, _viz._ at the end of 14 Hours.