the same steele being held in the same posture for two Minutes longer, the †end deleted remotest end seemed †visibly deleted to have gained a sensible Power of takeing up small fileings of steele
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the same steele being held in the same posture for two Minutes longer, the †end deleted remotest end seemed †visibly deleted to have gained a sensible Power of takeing up small fileings of steele
He causd to be blowne at the Lamp a Pipe †of deleted so <shapd>replacing 'bended' that the bottom was bent upwards and after the place where the curvature was made
We tooke a slender Pipe of a convenient length & caus'd the lower part of it to be so bent at the flame of a Lamp as to be reflected upwards & be made parallell or allmost parallell to the longer leg of the syphon, which was above half a yard †high deleted long, the upper part of the shorter leg of the Syphon was also at the same †length deleted Lamp drawne out into a straight but very slinder <pipe> (parallell likewise to the longer leg) which †would deleted was not much bigger than a pigeons quill. The Syphon being thus fitted, there was about 4 inches of {mercury} power'd into the longer leg which passing through the Curvature into the shorter leg, ascended about †pretty deleted an inch and more into the slender pipe. This done we †we made f deleted 1. we <measur'd by>replacing 'made' a thread held horizontally & stretch'd from the surface of the {mercury} in the capillary Pipe to the longer leg of the Syphon, that this <small> surface was near 5/8 lower than of the {mercury} in the longer leg. And yet the length of that Mercurial Cylinder did not exceede four inches.