then lefs nimbly and varioufly then in the great 
Earthen Pot, ('which yet was of the fame fnape,) and 
fliewed us many of thofe Vivid and felf dilating Circles, 
that have been mentioned in the third Number. And 
thefe, by the finenefs of their colours, and the quicknef^ 
wherewith they fucceeded one another, afforded a de- 
lightfull fpedacle as long as I ftaid to oMerve the 
Liquor. 6. Tho* the motions of the hitherto men- 
tioned Liquor did not feem to be always equally brisk, 
yet they appeared to continue manifeft and various in 
fome diverfities of Weather, as to cold and heati and 
when Ilookt on it by Candle light, as well as by Day 
light. And when being not well enough to vifit it 
my felf, I lent one purpofely to look upon it, about 
ten a Clock at night, he brought me word that it con- 
tinued to move as formerly, and fo it has done for 
ten days. And how much longer it will continue to 
do fo i Time muft determine, 
Pojifcript. 
Some time after the foregoing Account had been 
written, when I came to look upon the Liquor (which 
in the mean time had beenfeverall times viewed, and 
appeared to retain its motions) I found to my trouble, 
that fome body's impertinent curiofity and heedlefs- 
nefs had cracktrhe lower part of the Earthen Potj at 
which overture the Liquor, tho* not the Scum, was run 
out; which had put a period to our Obfervations, but 
that, forefeeing that fuch an Accident might happen, 
I had long before taken out fome fpoonfuUs of the Li- 
quor, and kept it clofe ftopt in a Vial. Bythismear^? 
1 had the opportunity toobferve, that when I powrd 
out the Liquor into a wide mouthd Veffel it \rouId 
move as before, tho' this were done fome weeks after it 
had been put up. And I remember that long after, 
having one day received the Honor of a Vifit from a 
forreign Minifler^ who was an Tnquifitive perfon and 
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