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like in Quick-filuer: And if you finde the Bladders fallen, or fhrunke • you 
may be lure the Aire is condenfed by the Cold ofthofe Bodies * As it would 
be in a Cane vnder Earth. 
It is reported of very good credit, that in the Eaft Indies, if you feta 
Tub of water open, in a Koome where Clones are kept, itwillbeedrawne 
drvinfoureand twenty houres • Though it ftandat fomediftance from 
th ecloues. In the Countrey, they vfe many times, in deceit, when their 
wooll is new fhorne,to fee fomePailesof water by, inthefameRoome 3 
to increafe the weight of the wooll : But it may bee, that the Heat of the 
Wood, remaining from the body of the Sheepe • or the Heat gathered by 
the lying clofe of the Woolly helpeth to draw the watry Vapour • But that 
is nothing to the Ferfion- 
I Itisreported alfocrediblv, that Wooll new fhorne, being laid cafually 
I vpon a Fejfell of Vermyce^ after fome time, haddrunke vpa great part of 
the Ferny ce, though the Veflell were whole without any Flaw, and had 
not the Bung-hole open. In this inftance,there is(vpon the by)to be noted 
the Percolation , or Siting of the Veriuycc thorow the wood • For Feriuyce of 
it felfe would neuer haue paffed thorow the Wpod; S 0 as it feenleth, i t 
mull: be fxrlt in a kinde of Vapour,before it pafle. 
! Itisefpecially to bee noted, that the Caufe, that doth facilitate the 
! Ferfwn of Aire into water, when the Aire is not in groffe, butfubtiily 
J mingled with Tangible Bodies, is, (as hath beene partly touched before,) 
for that Tangible Bodies haue an Antipathy with Aire . And if they finde 
any Liquid Body, that is more denfe, neere them, they will draw it: And 
after they haue drawneit, they will condenfe it more andineffed in- i 
corporate it 5 For wee fee that a Spunge, ox wooll, or Sugar , ora woollen j 
Cloth, being put but in part, in water, or wine , will draw the Liquor j 
higher, and beyond the place, where the water or wine commeth. Wee 
feealfo, that wood. Lute-firings, and the like, doefwellin moifiSeafons: 
As appeareth by the Breaking of the Strings , the Hard Ttiming of the | 
Pegs, and the Hard drawing forth of Boxes , and Opening of wainfiot doores ; j 
which is a kinde of lnjufion : And is much like to an Infufion in water, 1 
which will make wood to fmell: AsweefeeintheFillingof the Chops 1 
of Boules, by laying them in Water. Butforthat part of thefe Expert | 
merits, which concerneth Attraction • wee will referue it to the proper TV- j 
tie of Attraction. 
There is alfoa Verfionof Aire into Water, feene in the S Wealing of Mar¬ 
bles 0 and other Stones, And of Wain foot before and in moift weather: 
This muft be,either by fome Moijlnre the Body yeeldeth s Or elfe by the 
Moift .Airethickncdagainft the hard body. But it is plaine, that it is the 
latter - For that wee fee Wood painted with Oyle Colour, willfooner gather 
drops in a moift Night, than wood alone : which is canfed by the 
SmootbnefTeandClofeneffe : which letteth in no part of the Vapour, 
andfotiirnethitbackc, andthickeneth itintoDew. Wee feealfo, that 
Breathing vpon a GlaJJe, or Smooth body, giuetha Dew. And in Frofiy 
Morningsfuch as we call Rime Profit) you fhall finde drops of Dew 1 vpon 
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