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towards It; or that they better clear them from an Oily 
or Vifcous Matter, that may be communicated to them 
from our Hands, I cannot yet determine : However, 
whatever the occafion is, the Matter of Fad is true. 
Then I took a pair of round Brafs Plan-g, and ordered' 
them as before 5 the Succefs of which wasvery agreeable 
with the former. 
There is one thing I forgot to take notice of in a for- 
mer Experiment ; which is the Afcent of Spirit of 
Wine, or Oyl of Turpentine between two Glafs Planes, 
without any thing to feparate them. It cannot be ima- 
gined but that thefe Planes muft touch each other in a 
multitude of Parts ; yet for all that, and notwirhifand- 
ing they are held forcibly together, the Spirit of Wine 
will inhnuate, and afeend feemingly in an intire Body, 
betw”een all the contiguous Parts of them, as before 
and after their Separation nothing appears to the con- 
trary. 
To the prementioned Experiments give me leave to 
add what I have fince obferved, in plunging the Planes 
in Spirit of Wine, Oyl of Turpentine, and common Oyl : 
That all thefe different Fluids arofe between as the 
tinged Water; only with this difference, the common 
Oyl very fluggiflily ; it was near an Hour arifing fo 
high between them, as the other Liquids 'would in Icfs 
than half a Minute. They all arofe in an intire Body 
from fide to fide of the Planes, without thofe Intervals 
or Spaces, which generally happen on the Afcent of 
the Water. I likewife took a couple of round Glafs 
Planes, and having laid them one on another, without 
Paper, or any thing elfe between to keep them feparate ; 
In this manner I plung’d one edge juff under the Sur- 
face of the tinged Liquor, and found the Water almoff 
Inftantly had reach’d the Extreams of them in all 
Parts : By which wc find, that the Water not only a- 
feends diredfly upwards, but runs fideways, obliquely, 
er in any diredf ion. HI. 
