RESULTS OF THE EXPERIMENTS OF 1836. 



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\ the Wave. The magnitude of the wave depends upon the wave's age in such a manner, that when the vessel has been rapidly brought to a 

 'considerable interval of time, the anterior waves have accumulated in the direction of the motion, and the height of the wave is increased 

 ':plains the variations In the resistance of the fluid to a given body moving vrith a given velocity, and is the source of the double ohserva" 



