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<< By all the obfervations that I could make of this, and’ 
“« the former, I found that had they been at fea and joined: 
“to the furface thereof, they would have carried a vaft 
“‘ quantity of water up into the clouds, and the tubes would 
“then have become much more ftrong and opaque than 
“« they were, and have continued much longer. 
« Tt is commonly faid that at fea the water colle&ts and: 
“‘ bubbles up a foot or two high under thefe fpouts before 
“‘ that they’ be joined: But the miftake lies in the pellu= 
“ cidity and finenefs of thofe pipes, which do moft certain- 
«ly touch the furface of the fea before that any confider- 
«¢ able motion be made in it, and that, when the pipe be- 
“gins to fill with water, it then becomes opaque and 
“ vifible.” 
I fhall here make a remark or two upon the above cited’ 
author’s mode of expreffion in the foregoing accounts, 
which is evidently adapted to a preconceived idea of the 
cochlea Archimedis, by fuppofing fomething fimilar to 
which, as taking place in our atmofphere, he is not alone 
in endeavouring to account for thefe phenomena. In con- 
formity to this idea he fpeaks of the {pout as drawing up- 
wards, and fcrewing up whatever it touched; and fup- 
pofes that by its /pzral motion and /wift turning, water 
afcends in it as in the /crew of Archimedes. But this hy- 
pothefis, however fpecious, has been long fince exploded 
as unphilofophical. . 
Mr. de la Pryme mentions the appearance of a long black: 
pipe which now and then dropped down from the centre: 
of the gyrating clouds; in which pipe he diftin@ly view- 
ed a motion like that of a fcrew; and as fuch he feems to 
have fuppofed it acted, viz. either in the manner of a cork— 
{crew upon folids, or as the cochlea Archimedis upon fluids, 
drawing them up into the atmofphere. But as he himfelf 
afterwards, when applying his obfervations to a {pout at 
fea, very juftly concludes that the pellucidity and finenefs 
of thefe pipes over the water render them invifible below, 
“ notwithftanding 
