1full of fair water, you ſhall ſee the Water
and Wine by degrees mingle with one an
other; the one falling downe as it were in
little colour'd ſtreames, and the other aſ
cending into its room in the like curled
ſtreames, ſometimes preceded by round
parcels of water, which, by reaſon of their
tranſparency, looke almoſt like bubbles.
The other circumſtances of this Experi
ment, belonging not all of them to our
preſent purpoſe, we ſhall content our
ſelves with taking notice of one which
ſeemes the moſt important, and may illu
ſtrate and confirme ſome things former
ly delivered. And it was, That if, when
the ſuperficies of our Smoke lay ſmooth
and horizontal, a hot iron were held near
the our ſide of the Receiver, the Neigh
bouring part of the included fumes (for
the reſt did not very much alter their for
mer ſuperficies) being rarified by the heat,
would readily aſcend in a large Pillar of
ſmoke to the very top of the Receiver,
yet without ſeeming to looſe a diſtinct
ſuperficies, or to be confounded with Air;
below which, upon the receſs of the ad
ventitious heat that by agitating it im
pell'd it upward, it would againe ſub
ſide.
and Wine by degrees mingle with one an
other; the one falling downe as it were in
little colour'd ſtreames, and the other aſ
cending into its room in the like curled
ſtreames, ſometimes preceded by round
parcels of water, which, by reaſon of their
tranſparency, looke almoſt like bubbles.
The other circumſtances of this Experi
ment, belonging not all of them to our
preſent purpoſe, we ſhall content our
ſelves with taking notice of one which
ſeemes the moſt important, and may illu
ſtrate and confirme ſome things former
ly delivered. And it was, That if, when
the ſuperficies of our Smoke lay ſmooth
and horizontal, a hot iron were held near
the our ſide of the Receiver, the Neigh
bouring part of the included fumes (for
the reſt did not very much alter their for
mer ſuperficies) being rarified by the heat,
would readily aſcend in a large Pillar of
ſmoke to the very top of the Receiver,
yet without ſeeming to looſe a diſtinct
ſuperficies, or to be confounded with Air;
below which, upon the receſs of the ad
ventitious heat that by agitating it im
pell'd it upward, it would againe ſub
ſide.