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as it might do, having fome what a. (harp mouth % and fa 
order'd, it was let down as before, but taken up without 
any water, or theleaft moifture in it. 
May 18, 1680. Being in a ftark Galm fome Leagues 
diftant from the Coaft of South- Spam, off the great Hills 
oiXSranada^ in purfuance of the foregoing Experiment, 
we took a Bottle and clapt a Leather on the mouth of 
it, tying over that a fingle part of a Bladder, the which 
we let down 75 Fathom, But it came up again intires 
whereupon imagining that the Leather in great part had 
contributed to the refiftance the Bladder had made, be- 
ing that the fame was marked very much by the force 
of the preflure againft the mouth of the Bottle : We 
made a hole in the Leather about the bignefs of a large 
Pea, and let the fame again down 75 Fathom, but it 
canie up perforated in the vacant place where the Lea- 
ther had the hole in it, and almoft full of water; we 
then bound over another part of Bladder fingle, and let it 
down but 30 Fathoms, but. it came up whole and intire § 
whereupon immediately we let it down 50 Fathom, but it 
came up broke and full of water, Then we again fit- 
ted the Bottle with the faid perforated piece of Leather 
and a double Bladder, and let it down 50 Fathom, but 
it again came up intire : So again immediately we let 
it down 75 Fathom, but then it came up broke and 
full of water 5 when the wind bringing the Ship into 
motion hindered our farther trials, 
jf«/?e 24, 1680. Being in 39f degrees of Latitude, and 
by the Ships account 150 Leagues Weftward oi Portu- 
gal, I caufed a Florence Flask to be well ftop'd with. a 
Bladder over the mouth of it, and lower'd it down 30 
Fathom, but it was taken up broke. Whereupon ima- 
gining that the roughnefs of the Leads hailing fo ten- 
der a Body fo violently through the water, might be 
the breaking thereof, I caus'd another Flask in the like 
manner to be fitted, and clofe by it I tied likewife ano- 
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