they would per&longs;wade us) be&longs;tirs her &longs;elf <lb/>
&longs;o mightily to keep it from being de<lb/>
&longs;erted. </s></p>

<p type="main"> <s>I hope I &longs;hall not need to reminde Your <lb/>
Lord&longs;hip, that I have all this while been <lb/>
&longs;peaking of a <emph type="italics"/>Vacuum,<emph.end type="italics"/> not in the &longs;trict <lb/>
and Philo&longs;ophical &longs;en&longs;e, but in that more <lb/>
obvious and familiar one that has been <lb/>
formerly declar'd. </s></p>

<p type="main"> <s>And therefore I &longs;hall now proceed to <lb/>
ob&longs;erve in the la&longs;t place, that our 33<emph type="sup"/>d<emph.end type="sup"/> Ex<lb/>
periment affords us a notable proof of the <lb/>
unheeded &longs;trength of that pre&longs;&longs;ure which <lb/>
is &longs;u&longs;tain'd by the Corpu&longs;cles of what we <lb/>
call the free Air, and pre&longs;ume to be un<lb/>
compre&longs;&longs;'d. </s> <s>For, as fluid and yielding a <lb/>
Body as it is, our Experiment teaches us, <lb/>
That ev'n in our Climate, and without <lb/>
any other compre&longs;&longs;ion then what is (at <lb/>
lea&longs;t here below) Natural, or (to &longs;peak <lb/>
more properly) ordinary to it, it bears &longs;o <lb/>
&longs;trongly upon the Bodies whereunto it is <lb/>
contiguous, that a Cylinder of this free <lb/>
Air, not exceeding three Inches in Dia<lb/>
meter is able to rai&longs;e and carry up a <lb/>
weight, amounting to between &longs;ixteen <lb/>
and &longs;eventeen hundred Ounces. </s> <s>I &longs;aid,