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’ Which Queries may likcwife be made with regard 
to the rich and lath Experiments. 
The anfwer is eafy, for the Moments of thofc two 
Columns of Water arc precifely the fame, as if the fu- 
ftaining Tubes £ D and C D, were continued down to 
the Surface of the ftagnant Water A B ; fmee the velo- 
citiesof the Water, where thofe Column grow wider, or 
narrower, are to the velocities at the attrading Periphe- 
ries, reciprocally as the different Sedions of the Co* 
iumns. 
Fig. 9. Exp. 13. From which conflderation arifes 
this remarkable Paradox, That a VefTei being given of 
whatfoever Form, as A BC^ and containing any afligna- 
ble quantity of Water, how great foever ; that whole 
quantity of Water may be fufpended above the Level, 
if the upper part of the Veffel C be drawn out into a 
capillary Tube of a fuflicienc finenefs. 
But whether this Experiment will fucceed, when the 
height of the Vcflel is greater than that, to which 
Water will be rais’d by the preffure of the Atmofphere, 
and how far it will be alter’d by a yactium, I may 
perhaps have the honour of giving an account to the 
Society fome ocher time, not being perfedly fatisfy’d 
with thofe Try als which I: have hitherto had the oppor- 
tunity of making. 
Having difeover’d the caufe of the furpenfion of Wa- 
ter in capillary Tubes , it will not be difficult to 
account for the feemingly fpontaneous afeent of it. For, 
fincQ the Water, that enters a capillary Tube as foon 
as it’s Orifice is dipt therein, has it’s gravity taken off* 
by the atrradion of the Periphery with w’hich it s up- 
per Surface is in contad, it muft neceffarily rife high- 
er, partly by the preffure of the ftagnant Warer, and 
partly by the attradion of the Periphery immediately 
above that, which is already contiguous to it. 
It 
