Hr Several Experiments touching the feeming Sponta^ 
7ieou^ Jfcent of Water, ©jr Mr, Fr. Haubbec, 
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EXPERIMENT I. 
feveral Experiments, which already hath been 
' made in relation to the Spontaneous Afcent of 
■Water in fmall Tubes, not only by my felf, but feveral 
others, with much the fame fuccefs, gave me the occa« 
fion of thinking, whether the Figure of the Veflel might, 
or might not, contribute to the oddnefs of the Appear- 
ance. And to give my felf that Satisfadion, ( an Ac- 
count of which I thought would not be unacgeptable to 
the Society J I proceeded as follows* 
I procured a Couple of Glafs Planes, about feven In- 
ches long, and one and a half broad thefe Planes were 
part of a broken Looking Glafs ; and notwithlfanding 
when clapt together, they feem’d to touch one another 
in fo many parts, yet when they came to be immerfed in 
a Liquid, the Liquid would afcend between them ; but 
fo thin and colon rlefs it was, that it could not without 
difficulty “be difcerned, but upon the reparation of them, 
when they would be found wet on all their parts ; there- 
fore to make it more obvious, I put a fmall piece of 
thin Paper on each corner by whicl:^ means, when laid 
one on the other, they became fep^ated by fuch a di- 
flance, as is equal to the thicknefs of the Paper. In this 
manner I plung’d one end under fomesftrongly ting’d 
Liquor where it no fooner arriv’d, but the Water run 
(but 
