1quor 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
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