1Receiver, we afterwards repeated the Ex
periment, to try what change the exſucti
on of the external Air would produce in
the Water, after the internal and latitant
Air had (as is above recited) in great mea
ſure got away in bubbles, and whether or
no the Water would by ſtanding re-admit
any new particles of Air in the room of
thoſe that had forſaken it. But though
we exhauſted the Receiver very diligent
ly, yet we ſcarce ſaw a bubble in either
of the Glaſſes; notwithſtanding which,
we perceiv'd the Water to riſe about the
breadth of a Barly-corn, or more, in the
Neck of that Glaſs wherein the ſolid Cy
linder had been put; The Liquor in the
other Glaſs not ſenſibly ſwelling.
periment, to try what change the exſucti
on of the external Air would produce in
the Water, after the internal and latitant
Air had (as is above recited) in great mea
ſure got away in bubbles, and whether or
no the Water would by ſtanding re-admit
any new particles of Air in the room of
thoſe that had forſaken it. But though
we exhauſted the Receiver very diligent
ly, yet we ſcarce ſaw a bubble in either
of the Glaſſes; notwithſtanding which,
we perceiv'd the Water to riſe about the
breadth of a Barly-corn, or more, in the
Neck of that Glaſs wherein the ſolid Cy
linder had been put; The Liquor in the
other Glaſs not ſenſibly ſwelling.
And laſtly, upon the letting in of the
Air, the Water in the ſtraightned Neck
ſoon ſubſided to the mark above which
it had ſwollen, which whether it ought
to be aſcrib'd to the ſame ſmall expanſion
of the parts of the Water it ſelf, or to
the rarifaction of ſome yet latitant Air
broken into ſuch ſmall particles, as to e
ſcape our obſervation, ſeems not eaſily
determinable, without ſuch further tryals,
as would perhaps prove tedious to be re
cited as well as to be made; though I was
Air, the Water in the ſtraightned Neck
ſoon ſubſided to the mark above which
it had ſwollen, which whether it ought
to be aſcrib'd to the ſame ſmall expanſion
of the parts of the Water it ſelf, or to
the rarifaction of ſome yet latitant Air
broken into ſuch ſmall particles, as to e
ſcape our obſervation, ſeems not eaſily
determinable, without ſuch further tryals,
as would perhaps prove tedious to be re
cited as well as to be made; though I was
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