Air would a&longs;&longs;i&longs;t us to finde the cau&longs;e of<lb/>
the a&longs;cen&longs;ion we have been &longs;peaking of:<lb/>
But though we imploy'd red Wine in-<lb/>
&longs;tead of Water, yet we could fearce cer-<lb/>
tainly perceive thorow &longs;o much Gla&longs;s, as<lb/>
was interpo&longs;'d betwixt our Eyes and the<lb/>
Liquor, what happen'd in a Pipe &longs;o flen-<lb/>
der, that the redne&longs;s of the Wine was<lb/>
&longs;carce &longs;en&longs;ible in it.</s> <s>But as far as we could<lb/>
di&longs;cern, there happen'd no great altera-<lb/>
tion to the Liquor: which &longs;eem'd the le&longs;s<lb/>
&longs;trange, becau&longs;e the Spring of that Air<lb/>
that might depre&longs;s the Water in the Pipe,<lb/>
was equally debilitated with that which<lb/>
remain'd to pre&longs;s upon the &longs;urface of the<lb/>
Water in the little Gla&longs;s.</s> <s>Wherefore, in<lb/>
favor of his Ingenious Conjecture who<lb/>
a&longs;crib'd the <emph type="italics"/>Phaenomenon<emph.end type="italics"/>, under con&longs;ide-<lb/>
ration to the greater pre&longs;&longs;ure made upon<lb/>
the Water by the Air without the Pipe,<lb/>
then by that within it, (where &longs;o much of<lb/>
the Water (con&longs;i&longs;ting perhaps of Corpu-<lb/>
&longs;cles more pliant to the internal &longs;urfaces of<lb/>
the Air) was contiguous to the &longs;ides) it<lb/>
was &longs;hown, that in ca&longs;e the little Gla&longs;s<lb/>
Ve&longs;&longs;el that held the Water, of which a<lb/>
part a&longs;cended into the flender Pipe, were<lb/>
&longs;o clo&longs;'d, that a Man might with his mouth<lb/>
&longs;uck the Air out of it, the Water would