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quor will ascend to some height in the
Pipe, though held perpendicular to the
plain of the Water.
And, to satisfie me
that he mis-related not the Experiment,
he soon after brought two or three
small Pipes of Glass, which gave me the
opportunity of trying it: though I had
the less reason to distrust it, because I re-
member I had often in the long and flen-
der Pipes of some Weather Glassas,
which I had caus'd to be made after a
somewhat peculiar fashion, taken notice
of the like ascension of the Liquor,
though (presuming it might be casual) I
had made but litllereflection upon it.
But
after this tryal, beginning to suppose, that
though the Water in these Pipes that
were brought me, rise not above a quar-
ter of an Inch, (if near so high) yet, if
the Pipes were made flender enough, the
water might rise to a very much greater
height; I caus'd several of them to be, by
a dexterous Hand, drawn out at the flame
of a Lamp, in one of which that was
almost incredibly flender, we found that
the Water assended (as it were of it self)
five Inches by measure, to the no small
wonder of some famous Mathematicians,
who were Spectators of some of these
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