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you must not take it to be the local shaking of the 

 bell, or string, that doth it : as we shall fully declare 

 when we come hereafter to handle sounds. 



Experiments in consort, touching separations of bodies 

 by weight. 



14, Take a glass with a belly and a long neb; 

 fill the belly, in part, with water : take also another 

 glass, whereinto put claret wine and water mingled; 

 reverse the first glass, with the belly upwards 

 stopping the neb with your finger ; then dip the 

 mouth of it within the second glass, and remove 

 your finger : continue it in that posture for a time ; 

 and it will unmingle the wine from the water : the 

 wine ascending and settling in the top of the upper 

 glass ; and the water descending and settling in the 

 bottom of the lower glass. The passage is apparent 

 to the eye ; for you shall see the wine, as jt were, in 

 a small vein, rising through the water. For hand 

 someness sake, because the working requireth some 

 small time, it were good you hang the upper glass 

 upon a nail. But as soon as there is gathered so 

 much pure and unmixed water in the bottom of the 

 lower glass, as that the mouth of the upper glass 

 dippeth into it, the motion ceaseth. 



15. Let the upper glass be wine, and the lower 

 water ; there followeth no motion at all. Let the 

 upper glass be water pure, the lower water coloured, 

 or contrariwise, there followeth no motion at all. 

 But it hath been tried, that though the mixture of 

 wine and water, in the lower glass, be three parts 



