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rifen higher , if it had not been clogged 
by the mercury in the gage For which 
reafon the moifturc rofe but 20 inches in 
the afhes, where it would otherwife have 
rifen 30 or 40 inches. 
And as Sir Newton (in his Op- 
ticks query 31.) obferves, The water rifes 
“ up to this height, by the adion only of 
thofe particles of the afhes which arc 
upon the furface of the elevated water ; 
the particles which are within the v/ater, 
attrading or repelling it as much down- 
** wards as upwards ; and therefore tl iC ac- 
“ tion of the particles is very ftrong : But 
the particles of the alhes being net fo 
“ denfe and clofe together as thofe of 
glafs, their adion is not fo ftrong as that 
of glafs, which keeps quick- filver fufpen- 
ded to the height of 60 or 70 inches, 
and therefore ads with a force, which 
would keep water fufpended to the height 
of above 60 feet. 
‘‘ By the fame principle, a fponge fucksy 
in water, and the glands in the bodies or 
“ animals, according to their feveral na- 
tures and difpofitions, fuck in various 
juices from the blood.'* 
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