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XIV. A farther Account of the afcending of Drops cf 
Spirit of Wine between two Glafs Tlanes twenty In- 
ches and an half long • with a Table of the Di fiances 
from the touching Ends , and the Angles of Ekyation . 
By the late Mr Fr. Hauksbee ) F. ^ $• 
T H E Spirit of Wine did not move between the 
Planes, with that nimblenefs as Oil of Oranges, 
which gave me the Liberty to obferve the Angles with 
more Deliberation. The Limb on which the Planes 
were laid, mov’d in the Centre of a Quadrant of a four 
Foot Radius ; the largenefs of which gave me conveni- 
ency of meafuring the Angles with greater accuracy: 
But the diftance between the Drop on the Planes and 
the Graduations on the Quadrant, made it a little diffi- 
cult to obferve them both at once. Yet I believe the 
following Tables may be depended on to be as true as 
the Nature of fuch an Experiment (for any thing that 
I fee at prefent) is capable of. I have formerly given 
a particular Account of the manner of making this Ex- 
periment (printed in Philo foph. Tratifaft- No. 334.) to 
which I refer. Thefe Tables are calculated from the 
_ touching Ends of the Planes ; and it is to be obferved, 
that in the Table where the Planes were open’d but to 
an Angle of io' that I could not come nearer than 4 
Inches of the touching Ends in my Obfervations : But 
fo far as I could go, feems to be much in the fame Pro- 
portion (is l have oftentimes obferved in the courfe of 
thefe Experiments) with the Table where the Planes 
were opened to an Angle of 18' 
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Didances 
