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ir. An Account of fome new Ex[)enments, relating 
to the AEiion of Glafs Tubes upon Water and 
Quick^/Uver, By James Jurin, M. D. Reg.’ 
Soc. Coll. Med. Lond. Soc. 
I N a Difcourfe formerly prefented to the Royal Socie- 
ty, T maintain’d, that the SufpenfTon of ^/ater in a 
Capillary Tube was owing to the Attradion of a (mail 
annular furface on the infide of the Tube, which 
touch’d the upper part of the Water. Among the feveral 
Experiments made ufe of to prove this AfTertion, was 
that of a Glafs Funnel of feveral Inches Diameter, hav- 
ing its fmall end drawn out into a very fine Tube, 
which Funnel being inverted and fill’d with Water, 
the whole quantity of Water therein contain’d was fli- 
fiain’d above the Level by the Attradion of that nar- 
row Annulus of Glafs, with which the upper furface 
of the Water was in contad. 
Soon after that Difcourle was printed, came out a 
Book publilh’d by a very Learned and Ingenious Mem- 
ber of this Society, in which that Experiment was ac- 
counted for in the following Manner. 
If there be a Funnel, as ABC, Fig, r. full of IVater^ 
and rrhoje rride end fiands in a F'effel of Water as B C ; 
and the Top of the Funnel A ends in a Capillary Tube 
open at A, the rohole Water will he [uflaind: the Pillar 
'a a by the Attrallion of the Circle of Glafs within the 
Tule immediately above it ; and all the rejl of the Pillars 
of Water, as F f D d, Ee, G g, <jrc. in fome meafure by 
the AttraClion of the parts of the Glafs above them, as F, 
* mUf. TranfaH. N“. 355. 
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