Boyle, Robert, New experiments physico-mechanicall, touching the spring of the air and its effects, 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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              exhalations and give them an impulſe. </s>
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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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              more eaſily continue their agitation. </s>
              <s>For
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              Iremember, that Travelling betwixt
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              Ly­
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              ons
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              and
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              Geneva,
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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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              Rhone
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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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              into the Air. </s>
              <s>Such, I ſay, was my ſuſ­
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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-</s>
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