&longs;eem'd to proceed from the Air before <lb/>
impri&longs;on'd in the Viol, and diffu&longs;ing it <lb/>
&longs;elf &longs;uddenly into the capicity of the <lb/>
Receiver. </s> <s>Yet we afterward ob&longs;erv'd, <lb/>
as we expected, That the fumes did not <lb/>
mount and di&longs;per&longs;e them&longs;elves as they <lb/>
u&longs;e to do in the open Air, but that, when <lb/>
by rea&longs;on of the agitation of the Cor<lb/>
pu&longs;cles of the Liquor, which could not <lb/>
continue their motion in &longs;o narrow a <lb/>
&longs;pace as the Viol afforded them, and were <lb/>
therefore reduc'd to thru&longs;t one another <lb/>
out of it; when, I &longs;ay, by the&longs;e a&longs;&longs;i<lb/>
&longs;tances the fumes were a&longs;cended to the lip <lb/>
of the Viol, they mounted no higher, <lb/>
but ran down along the out-&longs;ide of the <lb/>
Viol to the bottom of it; and thence <lb/>
along, a long and inclining piece of Lead, <lb/>
on which the Viol re&longs;ted, like a little <lb/>
Stream (not very much bigger then a <lb/>
Swans Quill) who&longs;e nature it &longs;eemd to e<lb/>
mulate &longs;o well, that it quitted not the Viol <lb/>
till it was come to the bottom of it, and <lb/>
then for&longs;ook it in &longs;uch a manner as a <lb/>
&longs;tream of Water of the &longs;ame bigne&longs;s <lb/>
would have done. </s> <s>And this &longs;tream la&longs;ted <lb/>
a pretty while, and would probably have <lb/>
la&longs;ted longer, but that being loath to wa&longs;te <lb/>
my Liquor, I let in at the Stop-cock a