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III. An Experiment Jhewing, that the 
Springs or Conjiituent Parts of Air are 
capable to fuffer fuch dijorder, by a 
violent impulfe , as to require time to re- 
cover their Natural State ; by Mr- Fr- 
Hauksbee, F. R. S. 
T H E foregoing Experiment, being fo very odd in 
its appearance, gave me the Curiofity to enquire 
a little farther into the matter of Fa£t, and to try whe- 
ther Air could be capable of being Wounded, (if I may 
call it fo), or to fuffer fuch a dilorder of Farts, by a vio- 
lent impulfe, as to require time to recover their Natural 
State I deviled the following Experiment. 
I took my Condenfing Engine, (which is fo well 
known to this Society, I fhall not need to delcribe it 
here) ; into the bottom part of its Brafs Receiver I put 
about half a Pint of Water ; then the upper part being 
fcrew’d ftrongly on, I threw into it, with the Syringe, 
about 5 or 4 Atmofpheres of Air (as near as I could 
guels), fuffering it to remain in that ftate fometime more 
than an Hour - then letting out as much of the Air (by 
taking oft my Syringe) as would readily depart , I im- 
mediately fcrew’d on in its Place a Box of Leather Col- 
lars, through which paft a fmall Glals Tube, whole 
lower Orifiice was plung’d under the Surface of the in- 
cluded Water. I found in a very little time the Water 
had afcended in the Tube near a Foot, and continued 
riling 
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