( ) 
UJh have many times found Relief by it. I don’t un- 
derhand, but that it may be pradis’d at any r Time of 
the I ear, without Hazard or Inconvenience. The In- 
dians often ufed it before, and after long Journies, 
Hunting or Voyages, to (Lengthen and refrefh them- 
felves. 
III. An Attempt to account for the rijing and falling 
of the Water of fome Ponds near the Sea, or eb- 
bing and flowing fivers 5 where the Water is low- 
eft in the Pond, at the Time of high Water in the 
Sea or Pfizer-, and the Water is higheft in the 
Pond, at the . Time of low Water in the Sea or (Ri- 
ver. As alfo for the increafing or decreafing of 
the Water of fuch Pools and Prooks as are higheft 
in the dry Seafons , and loweft in the rainy Seafons: 
With an Experiment to illufirate the Solution of 
the Phenomena. Py the (Reverend J. T. De- 
laguliers, L. L . 0. and R. S. S. 
H Ero Alexandrinus, and other Hydraulick Wri- 
ters, have defcrib’d a Cup (call’d a Tantalus , 
from its Effed) which will hold any Liquor very well, 
when it is not till’d above a certain Height mark’d in the 
Cup ^ but if it be fill’d higher, not only the Liquor 
above the Mark will run out, but the whole Liquor 
that was in the Cup. This is perform’d by a Syphon 
in the Cup, which is fometimes conceal’d to make the 
Effed the more lurprifing. 
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