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being all equal in every respect, cannot be supposed to Attract most at the lower end, wheresoever it be, or if it should, it ought to remain there as before. [[strikethrough]] besides [[insertion]] that [[/insertion]] Moreover Glass Attracting [[/strikethrough]]  Besides, that Glass should Attract many Liquors, as water here, and Repell Mercury is a paradox to me.-- Therefore to account for this otherwise, it will be readily granted, that in every Fluid, there is a [[underlined]] Friction [[/underlined]] arising from all the Particles among themselves; and as there is, in all probability, such an effect among Homogeneous particles, there is consequently a greater among Heterogeneous particles; therefore the partcles of all Fluids will move more freely among themselves than when they are mixed with, or adjoining to, any other substance whatever:  Wherefore if the bottom of any vessel be covered with a fluid, the greatest friction will be in the particles adjoining to the sides of the vessel, and less in those than in these that lie next those, but greater than in them more remote from the side of the vessel; because the next thereto ^ [[insertion]] i.e. to the side [[/insertion]] are sluggish with atendancy to [[strikethrough]] the [[/strikethrough]] rest by friction;  And these lying next them draw of particles from the side of the vessel will have still less friction than the second & C.  Hence it is plain the particles lying near the side cannot have so great a pressure upon the bottom as those in the middle have, because they have not so fierce motion; therefore by the laws of Hydrostatics, this is the nature or property of all fluids, the nearer the side of the vessel the greater must it ^ [[insertion]] together [[/insertion]] with the Cohesion (of the fluid) be to restore or keep the like Equilibro.  Wherefore, the fluid will be truely concave, as it really is in all such circumstances.
Now suppose as much Liquor to be put into the vessel as possible there can, without running over, then it will stand even & with the largest [[boxed insertion]] largust [[?]] [[/insertion]] above in the middle, as this [[strikethrough]] account [[/strikethrough]] seems to contradict the former concavity of the Liquor, yet upon the very same principles it may be thus accounted for; as the friction at the sides of the vessel takes of part, and obstructs the Pressure at bottom of the vessel: so also this friction will obstruct the free motion of the particles at the sides in rising, when the vessel is thus filled there is more friction at top, because of more surface, than there is at any other height; and the particles there are less active than those in the middle, which have a free motion among themselves; so that a greater quantity is required in the middle than at the sides in order to keep an equal pressure at the surface against the sides: but how to account for the equilibrium at the bottom I do not yet know
From hence the phænomenon of Fluids rising in Capillary Tubes may be easily deduced; thus, in spaces so very small, the friction of the particles lying next the side, affects those lying next them, and these again the next following (from the side), and so on to the very center of all small Tubes; for all the particles are in contact with each other: thence it is plain, that this friction will take off some pressure at the bottom, and by the laws of Hydrostatics, it will require a longer column in the tube than out of it to counterballance the fluid surrounding the Tube.
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