Boyle, Robert, New experiments physico-mechanicall, touching the spring of the air and its effects, 1660

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              top of the Pipe ſome drops of it be­
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              gan to run down along the out-ſide of it,
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              which oblig'd us to forbear pumping a­
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              while, and give the Water leave to ſub­
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              ſide within leſs then two Inches of the
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              bottom of the Pipe. </s>
              <s>After this the
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              Pump being again ſet at work, the bub­
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              bles began to aſcend from the bottom
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              of the Pipe, being not all of a ſize, but yet
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              ſo big, that eſtimating one with another,
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              they appear'd to be of the ſize of the ſmal­
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              ler ſort of Peas; and of theſe we reckon'd
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              about ſixty which came up one after ano­
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              ther, beſides ſtore of ſmaller ones, of which
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              we made no reckoning: And at length,
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              growing weary of reckoning and pumping
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              too (becauſe we found, that in ſpight
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              of all our pains and induſtry, ſome un­
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              diſcern'd Leak or other in the Recei­
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              ver hinder'd us from being able to empty
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              it altogether) we thought fit to deſiſt for
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              that time. </s>
              <s>After tryal made of what o­
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              peration the external Air, being let in
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              upon the expanded Water, would have;
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              and accordingly turning the Key to let in
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              the Air, we ſaw, as we expected, that
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              the Water in the Pipe in a moment fell
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              down almoſt to the bottom of it. </s>
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