of Small Floating Bodies. 

 it it would be 



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pressure in such cases, h 

 might be neglected.* ] 

 might be, a motion of translation would be the consequence, 

 and this it seems difficult to admit. Dr. Thomas Young, in a 

 letter to Poison, insists upon this us a most serious objection 

 t<> Laplace's Theorv of Capilh.ritv.1 Of. the contrary, Poisson 

 shows that his own modified theory does not lead to this 

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