Archimedes Texts

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seem'd to proceed from the Air before
imprison'd in the Viol, and diffusing it
self suddenly into the capicity of the
Receiver. Yet we afterward observ'd,
as we expected, That the fumes did not
mount and disperse themselves as they
use to do in the open Air, but that, when
by reason of the agitation of the Cor
puscles of the Liquor, which could not
continue their motion in so narrow a
space as the Viol afforded them, and were
therefore reduc'd to thrust one another
out of it; when, I say, by these assi
stances the fumes were ascended to the lip
of the Viol, they mounted no higher,
but ran down along the out-side of the
Viol to the bottom of it; and thence
along, a long and inclining piece of Lead,
on which the Viol rested, like a little
Stream (not very much bigger then a
Swans Quill) whose nature it seemd to e
mulate so well, that it quitted not the Viol
till it was come to the bottom of it, and
then forsook it in such a manner as a
stream of Water of the same bigness
would have done. And this stream lasted
a pretty while, and would probably have
lasted longer, but that being loath to waste
my Liquor, I let in at the Stop-cock a