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struck wth. a violl bow which yealded 4 or 5 seuerall &
very Distinct sounds to wit the Lowest a fifth a fowrth &
an eighth & 12 higher. but

2dly another large Glasse holding about 3 quarts almost filled
wth. water was struck on the Edge wth. a viol bow & it was
very visible that according to the sound was the number
of the places in the glasse where the water played..the
places were either 4. 6. 8. 10. 12. and some more Con
founded & broad which seemd to participate of 2 sounds -

3. seuerall experiments were tryed wth small glasse canes in
the Exhausted Receiver to see whether the water would
rise in them but vpon tryall there could be nothing -
certainly concluded from them. some of them being stoppd
by the melting of the cement on the top of them.

But a syphon being tryd It was found that the water would
Run through the same out of one vessell into another as
well when the air was exhausted as before.

mor. Pappin made a tryall of ^ /small/ pipes closed at the top in his exhausted
Reciuer affirming that it would ascend into such a pipe as well
as if it were an open small pipe in common air, but we could
not perceiue that the water did ascend in it till some air being
Let into the Receiuer the water went to the top of the Seald pipe
And by all the Exhausting could be used /it/ after wards we could
. . . /It was/ made tht water to Descend againe out from the top of the pipe

Mr. Hooke acquainted the Society that mor. Chardin was in
Town and that he had spoken wth him. he was desired to
Indeauour to bring him the next Day to the Society.

Ref: CELL/RS/HF_458  © Centre for Editing Lives and Letters