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in its Courfe, and the half of this Grim would 

 be more obftru&ed ; what fhall we then fay 

 of the ten thoufandth part, or of a part the 

 ten thoufand millioneth of this, and agai 1 of 

 the Infinits Subdivifions of that , 'till at lafb 

 we come to a part that would be wholly re- 

 lifted, or kept up*, fuch as I conceive the 

 minute Particles of a Body diflblved in a 

 Menftruum t 



On this account 'tis, I fay, that the fore- 

 mentioned Principle of Hydroftatkks is a little 

 defective; for it confiders not the natural 

 Congruity of the Parts of a Liquor, whereby 

 they defire, as 'twere, to unite and keep to- 

 gether, juft as we fee two drops of Water on 

 a dry Board being brought together do jump 

 and coalefce, and therefore Liquors have an 

 innate power of refilling a certain degree of 

 force that would feparate them *, fuch as I 

 fuppofe the degree of Gravity, in the molt 

 minute Particles of a Body diffolved in a 

 Menftruum. 



The fore-mentioned Rule holds true to the 

 moft nice Senfe in great Bodies, but in thofe 

 that are by many Millions of Diviilons fmal- 

 ler, it feems to fail. 



This, in fliort, is my Conjecture in this 

 matter, which I propofe, as my Brother did 

 his, with all fubmifllon imaginable, and there^ 

 by to give occafion to others to enquire into 

 the Caufes of this appearance, rather than to 

 publifli my own Sentiments as the undoubted 

 Solution thereof. , 



But this I mud acknowledge, that the in- 

 ternal~motion of the parts of a liquor feems 

 fo very agreeable to truth, and explicates fo 



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