were de&longs;irous to try whether or no the <lb/>
pre&longs;&longs;ure of the Air might rea&longs;onably be <lb/>
&longs;uppo&longs;'d to have either the principal, or at <lb/>
lea&longs;t a con&longs;iderable Intere&longs;t in the rai&longs;ing <lb/>
of tho&longs;e Liquors. </s> <s>But becau&longs;e we found <lb/>
that we could not yet &longs;o evacuate our Re<lb/>
ceiver, but that the remaining Air, <lb/>
though but little in compari&longs;on of the <lb/>
exhau&longs;ted, would be able to impell the <lb/>
the Water to a greater height then is <lb/>
u&longs;ual in ordinary Filtrations: we re&longs;olved, <lb/>
in&longs;tead of a Li&longs;t of Cotton, or the like <lb/>
Filtre, to make u&longs;e of a <emph type="italics"/>Siphon<emph.end type="italics"/> of Gla&longs;s, <lb/>
delineated in the third Figure, con&longs;i&longs;t<lb/>
ing of three pieces, two &longs;traight, and <lb/>
the third crooked to joyn them toge<lb/>
ther; who&longs;e Junctures were diligently <lb/>
clo&longs;'d, that no Air might finde entrance <lb/>
at them. </s> <s>One of the Legs of this <emph type="italics"/>Si<lb/>
phon<emph.end type="italics"/> was (as it &longs;hould be) &longs;omewhat <lb/>
longer then the other, and was pervious <lb/>
at the bottom of it onely, by a hole al<lb/>
mo&longs;t as &longs;lender as a hair, that the <lb/>
Water might but very lea&longs;urely drop <lb/>
out of it, le&longs;t it &longs;hould all run out <lb/>
before the Experiment were compleat<lb/>
ed. </s> <s>The other and &longs;horter Leg of <lb/>
the <emph type="italics"/>Siphon<emph.end type="italics"/> was quite open at the end, <lb/>
and of the &longs;ame widene&longs;&longs;e with the