This last property, any one that hath been observingly conversant about fluid Bodies, cannot be ignorant of. For (not now to mention several _Chymical Spirits_ and _Oyls_, which will _very hardly_, if at _all_, be brought to _mix_ with one another; insomuch that there may be found some 8 or 9, or more, several distinct Liquors, which _swimming_ one upon another, will not presently _mix_) we need seek no further for Examples of this kind in _fluids_, then to observe the _drops of rain_ falling through the _air_ and the _bubbles of air_ which are by any means conveyed under the surface of the _water_; or a drop of common _Sallet-Oyl_ swimming upon water. In all which, and many more examples of this kind that might be enumerated, the _incongruity_ of two _fluids_ is easily discernable. And as for the _Congruity_ or _Incongruity_ of Liquids, with several kinds of _firm_ Bodies, they have long since been taken notice of, and called by the Names of _Driness_ and _Moisture_ (though these two names are not comprehensive enough, being commonly used to signifie only the adhering or not adhering of _water_ to some other _solid Bodies_) of this kind we may observe that _water_ will more readily _wet some woods_ then _others_; and that _water_, let fall upon a _Feather_, the whiter side of a _Colwort_, and some other leaves, or upon almost any _dusty_, _unctuous_, or _resinous_ superficies, will not _at all adhere_ to them, but easily _tumble off_ from them, like a solid _Bowl_; whereas, if dropt upon _Linnen_, _Paper_, _Clay_, _green Wood_, &c. it will not be taken off, without leaving some part of it behind _adhering_ to them. So _Quick-silver_, which will very _hardly_ be brought to _stick_ to any _vegetable body_, will _readily adhere_ to, and _mingle_ with, several clean _metalline bodies_.