Boyle, Robert
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New experiments physico-mechanicall, touching the spring of the air and its effects
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1660
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I foreſaw this gheſs to be liable, namely,
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That, no heat intervening, there appear'd
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nothing that ſhould raiſe the Water into
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thought it might be ſaid that motion a
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lone, if vehement enough, may, with
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out ſenſible heat, ſuffice to break Water
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into very minute parts, and make them aſ
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cend upwards, if they can no where elſe
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Iremember, that Travelling betwixt
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I ſaw, not very far out of
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the Way, a place where the River of
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coming ſuddenly to be ſtreighten'd
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betwixt two Rocks, ſo near each other,
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that a Man may (if my Memory fail me
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not) ſtand aſtride upon both at once: that
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rapid Stream daſhing with great impetuo
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ſity againſt its Rocky Boundaries, does
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break part of its Water into ſuch minute
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Corpuſcles, and put them into ſuch a mo
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tion, that Paſſengers obſerve at a good di
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ſtance off, as it were a Miſt ariſing from
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that place, and aſcending a good way up
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picion touching the Wind we have been
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conſidering, but it ſeems ſomething odde
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that aqueous Vapors ſhould, like a dry
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Wind, paſs through ſo long and tortu-</
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