(as we have el&longs;e-where al&longs;o noted) any <lb/>
&longs;uch boundle&longs;s thing as men have been <lb/>
pleas'd to imagine. </s> <s>And the rea&longs;on, why <lb/>
in the former Experiments, mentioned <lb/>
in favour of the Pleni&longs;ts, Bodies &longs;eem to <lb/>
forget their own Natures to &longs;hun a <emph type="italics"/>Va<lb/>
cuum,<emph.end type="italics"/> &longs;eems to be but this; That in the <lb/>
alleadged ca&longs;es the weight of that Wa<lb/>
ter that was either kept from falling or <lb/>
impell'd up, was not great enough to <lb/>
&longs;urmount the pre&longs;&longs;ure of the contiguous <lb/>
Air; which, if it had been, the Water <lb/>
would have &longs;ub&longs;ided, though no Air could <lb/>
have &longs;ucceeded. </s> <s>For not to repeat that <lb/>
Experiment of Mon&longs;ieur <emph type="italics"/>Pa&longs;chal<emph.end type="italics"/> (for<lb/>
merly mention'd to have been try'd in a <lb/>
Gla&longs;s exceeding 32 Foot) wherein the <lb/>
inverted Pipe being long enough to con<lb/>
tain a competent weight of Water, that <lb/>
Liquor freely ran out at the lower Orifice: <lb/>
Not to mention this (I &longs;ay) we &longs;aw in <lb/>
our nineteenth Experiment, that when <lb/>
the pre&longs;&longs;ure of the ambient Air was &longs;uffi<lb/>
ciently weaken'd, the Water would fall <lb/>
out apace at the Orifice even of a &longs;hort <lb/>
Pipe, though the Air could not &longs;ucceed <lb/>
into the room de&longs;erted by it. </s> <s>And it were <lb/>
not ami&longs;s if tryal were made on the tops <lb/>
of very high Mountains, to di&longs;cover with