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very near together, the denfity of the redundant fluid 
near the center will not be much lefs than the mean 
denfity, or ^ will not be much lefs than one -/more- 
over, the lefs the diflance of the plates, the nearer 
will ^ approach to one. 
C o R o L. II. 
Let now the body H confifi: of a circular plate, of 
the fame fize as A B, placed fo, that the canal C G 
fliall pafs through its center, and be perpendicular to 
its plane j by the fuppofition, the force with which 
H repels the fluid in the canal CG, is the fame 
with which a quantity of fluid, equal to B, fpread 
uniformly over A B, would repel it in the contrary 
diredion : therefore, if the fluid in the plate H was 
-fpread uniformly, the quantity of redundant fluid 
therein would be B, and if it was all colleded in the 
circumference, would be ; and therefore the 
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real quantity will be greater than B, and lefs than 
2B 
C o R o L. III. 
Therefore, if we fuppofe ^ to be equal to one* 
the quantity of redundant fluid in AB will exceed 
that in the plate H, in a greater ratio than that of , 
AC 
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to one, and lefs than that of 
to one j and from the preceding remarks it appears, 
that the real quantity of redundant fluid in AB can 
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