it then to move upwards _so slow_, that I have not yet had the _patience_ to observe it above that height of 21 _inches_ (and that was in a pretty _large Pipe_, in comparison of those I formerly mentioned; for I could observe the _progress_ of a _very deep ting’d liquor_ in it with my _naked eye_, without much trouble; whereas many of the _other pipes_ were so _very small_, that unless in a _convenient posture_ to the light, I could not perceive _them_:) But ’tis very probable, that a greater _patience_ and _assiduity_ may discover the liquors to _rise_, at least to remain _suspended_, at heights that I should be loath now even to _ghess_ at, if at least there be any _proportion_ kept between the height of the ascending liquor, and the _bigness of the holes_ of the pipes. _AN ATTEMPT FOR THE EXPLICATION OF THIS EXPERIMENT._ My Conjecture, _That the unequal height of the surfaces of the water, proceeded from the greater pressure made upon the water by the Air without the Pipes_ ABC, _then by that within them_[8]; I shall endeavour to confirm from the truth of the two following _Propositions_: The first of which is, _That an unequal pressure of the incumbent Air, will cause an unequal height in the water’s Surfaces_. And the second is, _That in this experiment there is such an unequal pressure_. That the first is true, the following _Experiment_ will evince. For if you take any Vessel so contrived, as that you can at pleasure either _increase_ or _diminish_ the _pressure_ of the Air upon this or that part of the _Superficies_ of the _water_, the _equality_ of the height of those parts will presently be _lost_; and that part of the _Superficies_ that sustains the _greater pressure_, will be _inferior_ to that which undergoes the _less_. A fit Vessel for this purpose, will be an inverted Glass _Syphon_, such an one as is described in the _Sixth Figure_. For if into it you put Water enough to fill it as high as _AB_, and gently blow in at _D_, you shall _depress_ the Superficies _B_, and thereby _raise_ the opposite Superficies _A_ to a _considerable height_, and by gently _sucking_ you may produce clean _contrary_ effects. Next, That there is such an _unequal pressure_, I shall prove from this, _That there is a much greater incongruity of Air to Glass, and some other Bodies, then there is of Water to the same_. By _Congruity, I mean a property of a fluid Body, whereby any part of it is readily united with any other part, either of itself, or of any other Similar, fluid, or solid body: And by Incongruity a property of a fluid, by which it is hindred from uniting with any dissimilar, fluid, or solid Body._