being barely agitated, di&longs;per&longs;'d, and con<lb/>
&longs;equently otherways rang'd, exhibite a <lb/>
colour, if we were not unwilling to rob <lb/>
our Collection of Experiments concern<lb/>
ing Colours. </s></p>

<p type="main"> <s>But, My Lord, I fore&longs;ee You may <lb/>
make &longs;ome Objections again&longs;t our pro<lb/>
po&longs;ed ghe&longs;s, which perhaps I &longs;hall &longs;carce <lb/>
be able to an&longs;wer, e&longs;pecially, if You in<lb/>
&longs;i&longs;t upon having me render a Rea&longs;on why <lb/>
our <emph type="italics"/>Phænomenon<emph.end type="italics"/> appears not con&longs;tant<lb/>
ly. </s></p>

<p type="main"> <s>I might indeed an&longs;wer, that probably <lb/>
it would do &longs;o, if in&longs;tead of our great <lb/>
Receiver we u&longs;e &longs;uch a &longs;mall Viol as we <lb/>
have lat<emph type="italics"/>e<emph.end type="italics"/>ly mention'd, wherein the Di&longs;&longs;i<lb/>
lition of the Air being much greater, is <lb/>
like to be the more con&longs;picuous: Since I <lb/>
remember not that we ever made our try<lb/>
al with &longs;uch &longs;mall Ve&longs;&longs;els, without find<lb/>
ing the expected whitene&longs;s to appear. </s> <s>But <lb/>
it would remain to be explicated, why in <lb/>
our great Receiver the <emph type="italics"/>Phænomenon<emph.end type="italics"/> &longs;hould <lb/>
&longs;ometimes be &longs;een, and oftentimes not ap<lb/>
pear. </s> <s>And though that Conjecture which <lb/>
we la&longs;t made &longs;hould not be rejected, yet if <lb/>
we were further pre&longs;&longs;'d to a&longs;&longs;ign a rea&longs;on <lb/>
why the Air &longs;hould abound with &longs;uch Par<lb/>
ticles, as we there &longs;uppo&longs;e, more at one