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Having therefore in short set down my Notion of a Fluid body, I come in the next place to consider what _Congruity_ is; and this, as I said before, being a _Relative property_ of a fluid, whereby it may be said to be _like_ or _unlike_ to this or that other body, whereby it _does_ or _does not mix_ with this or that body. We will again have recourse to our former Experiment, though but a rude one; and here if we mix in the dish _several kinds_ of sands, some of _bigger_, others of _less_ and finer bulks, we shall find that by the agitation _the fine sand_ will _eject_ and _throw out_ of it self all those _bigger_ bulks of small _stones_ and the like, and those will _be gathered_ together all into _one_ place; and if there be _other_ bodies in it of other natures, those also will be _separated_ into a place by themselves, and _united_ or _tumbled_ up together. And though this do not come up to the _highest property_ of _Congruity_, which is a _Cohæsion_ of the parts of the fluid together, or a kind of _attraction_ and _tenacity_, yet this does as ’twere _shadow_ it out, and somewhat resemble it; for just after the same manner, I suppose the _pulse_ of heat to _agitate_ the small parcels of matter, and those that are of a _like bigness_, and _figure_, and _matter_, will _hold_, or _dance_ together, and those which are of a _differing_ kind will be _thrust_ or _shov’d_ out from between them; for particles that are _similar_, will, like so many _equal musical strings equally stretcht_, vibrate together in a kind of _Harmony_ or _unison_; whereas others that are _dissimilar_, upon what account soever, unless the disproportion be otherwise counter-ballanc’d, will, like so many _strings out of tune_ to those unisons, though they have the same agitating _pulse_, yet make quite _differing_ kinds of _vibrations_ and _repercussions_, so that though they may be both mov’d, yet are their _vibrations_ so _different_, and so _untun’d_, as ’twere to each other, that they _cross_ and _jar_ against each other, and consequently, _cannot agree_ together, but _fly back_ from each other to their similar particles. Now, to give you an instance how the _disproportion_ of some bodies in one respect, may be _counter-ballanc’d_ by a _contrary disproportion_ of the same body in another respect, whence we find that the subtil _vinous spirit_ is _congruous_, or does readily _mix_ with _water_, which in many properties is of a very _differing nature_, we may consider that a _unison_ may be made either by two _strings_ of the same _bigness_, _length_, and _tension_, or by two strings of the same _bigness_, but of _differing length_, and a _contrary differing tension_, or _3ly._ by two strings of _unequal length_ and _bigness_, and of a _differing tension_, or of _equal length_, and _differing bigness_ and _tension_, and several other such varieties. To which _three properties_ in _strings_, will correspond _three proprieties_ also in _sand_, or the _particles_ of bodies, their _Matter_ or _Substance_, their _Figure_ or _Shape_, and their _Body_ or _Bulk_. And from the _varieties_ of these _three_, may arise _infinite varieties_ in fluid bodies, though all agitated by the _same pulse_ or _vibrative_ motion. And there may be as many ways of making Harmonies and Discords with these, as there may be with _musical strings_. Having therefore seen what is the cause of Congruity or Incongruity, those relative properties of fluids, we may, from what has been said, very easily collect, what is the _reason_ of those Relative proprieties also between _fluid bodies_ and _solid_; for since all bodies consist of _particles_ of such a _Substance_, _Figure_, and _Bulk_; but in some they are _united_ together more _firmly_ then to be _loosened_ from each other by every _vibrative_ motion (though I imagine that there is no body in the world, but that some degree of agitation may, as I hinted before, agitate and loosen the particles so as to make them fluid) those _cohering_ particles may _vibrate_ in the same manner almost as those that are _loose_ and become _unisons_ or _discords_, as I may so speak, to them. Now that the _parts_ of all _bodies_, though never so _solid_, do yet _vibrate_, I think we need go no further for proof, then that _all_ bodies have some _degrees_ of _heat_ in them, and that there has not been yet found any thing _perfectly cold_: Nor can I believe indeed that there is any such thing in Nature, as a body whose particles are at _rest_, or _lazy_ and _unactive_ in the great _Theatre_ of the _World_, it being quite _contrary_ to the grand _Oeconomy_ of the Universe. We see therefore what is the reason of the _sympathy_ or uniting of some bodies together, and of the _antipathy_ or flight of others from each other: For _Congruity_ seems nothing else but a _Sympathy_, and _Incongruity_ an _Antipathy_ of bodies, hence _similar_ bodies once _united_ will not _easily part_, and _dissimilar_ bodies once _disjoyn’d_ will not _easily unite_ again; from hence may be very easily deduc’d the reason of the _suspension_ of _water_ and _Quick-silver_ above their usual _station_, as I shall more at large anon shew.

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These properties therefore (alwayes the concomitants of fluid bodies) produce these following visible _Effects_:

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First, They _unite_ the parts of a fluid to its _similar_ Solid, or keep them _separate_ from its _dissimilar_. Hence _Quick-silver_ will (as we noted before) _stick_ to _Gold_, _Silver_, _Tin_, _Lead_, &c. and _unite_ with them: but _roul_ off from _Wood_, _Stone_, _Glass_, &c. if never so little scituated out of its _horizontal level_; and _water_ that will _wet salt_ and _dissolve_ it, will _slip_ off from _Tallow_, or the like, without at all _adhering_; as it may likewise be observed to do upon a _dusty_ superficies. And next they cause the parts of _homogeneal fluid_ bodies readily to _adhere_ together and _mix_, and of _heterogeneal_, to be exceeding _averse_ thereunto. Hence we find, that _two_ small _drops_ of _water_, on any superficies they can roul on, will, if they chance to touch each other, _readily unite_ and _mix_ into one 3d _drop_: The like may be observed with two small _Bowls_ of _Quick-silver_ upon a Table or Glass, provided their surfaces be not _dusty_; and with two drops of _Oyl_ upon fair water, _&c._ And further, _water_ put unto _wine_, _salt water_, _vinegar_, _spirit_ of _wine_, or the like, does immediately (especially if they be shaken together) _disperse_ it self all over them. Hence, on the contrary, we also find, that _Oyl of Tartar_ poured upon _Quick-silver_, and _Spirit of Wine_ on that _Oyl_, and _Oyl of Turpentine_ on that _Spirit_, and _Air_ upon that _Oyl_, though they be stopt closely up into a Bottle, and _shaken_ never so much, they will by no means long suffer any of their bigger parts to be _united_ or included within any of the other Liquors (by which recited Liquors, may be plainly enough represented the four _Peripatetical Elements_, and the more subtil _Æther_ above all.) From this property ’tis, that a drop of _water_ does not mingle with, or vanish into _Air_, but is _driven_ (by that Fluid equally protruding it on every side) and forc’t into as little a space as it can possibly be contained in, namely, into a _Round Globule_. So likewise a little _Air_ blown under the _water_, is _united_ or thrust into a _Bubble_ by the ambient water. And a parcel of _Quick-silver_ enclosed with _Air_, _Water_, or almost any other _Liquor_, is _formed_ into a _round Ball_.

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Now the cause why all these included Fluids, newly mentioned, or as many others as are wholly included within a heterogeneous fluid, are not _exactly_ of a _Spherical Figure_ (seeing that if caused by these Principles only, it could be of no other) must proceed from some other kind of _pressure_ against the two opposite flatted sides. This _adventitious_ or _accidental pressure_ may proceed from _divers causes_, and accordingly must _diversifie_ the Figure of the included heterogeneous fluid: For seeing that a body may be included either with a fluid only, or only with a solid, or partly with a fluid, and partly with a solid, or partly with one fluid, and partly with another; there will be found a very great variety of the terminating _surfaces_, much differing from a _Spherical_, according to the various resistance or pressure that belongs to each of these encompassing bodies.

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Which Properties may in general be deduced from two heads, _viz._ _Motion_, and _Rest_. For, either this Globular Figure is altered by a _natural Motion_, such as is _Gravity_, or a _violent_, such as is any _accidental motion_ of the fluids, as we see in the _wind_ ruffling up the water, and the _purlings_ of _Streams_, and _foaming_ of _Catarracts_, and the like. Or thirdly, By the _Rest_, _Firmness_ and _Stability_ of the ambient _Solid_. For if the including _Solid_ be of an _angular_ or any other _irregular_ Form, the included _fluid_ will be near of the _like_, as a Pint-_Pot_ full of _water_, or a _Bladder_ full of _Air_. And next, if the including or included fluid have a greater _gravity_ one than another, then will the _globular_ Form be deprest into an _Elliptico-spherical_: As if, for example, we suppose the Circle _ABCD_, in the _fourth Figure_, to represent a _drop of water_, _Quick-silver_, or the like, included with the _Air_ or the like, which supposing there were no _gravity_ at all in either of the _fluids_, or that the _contained_ and _containing_ were of the _same weight_, would be _equally comprest_ into an exactly _spherical_ body (the ambient fluid _forcing equally_ against every side of it.) But supposing either a greater _gravity_ in the included, by reason whereof the parts of it being _prest_ from _A_ towards _B_, and thereby the whole put into _motion_, and that _motion_ being _hindred_ by the _resistance_ of the _subjacent_ parts of the ambient, the _globular_ Figure _ADBC_ will be _deprest_ into the _Elliptico-spherical_, _EGFH_. For the side _A_ is _detruded_ to _E_ by the _Gravity_, and _B_ to _F_ by the _resistance_ of the subjacent medium: and therefore _C_ must necessarily be thrust to _G_; and _D_ to _H_. Or else, supposing a greater _gravity_ in the _ambient_, by whose more then ordinary _pressure_ against the under side of the included globule; _B_ will be forced to _F_, and by its _resistance_ of the motion _upwards_, the side _A_ will be _deprest_ to _E_, and therefore _C_ being thrust to _G_ and _D_ to _H_; the _globular_ Figure by this means also will be made an _Elliptico-spherical_. Next if a fluid be included _partly_ with one, and _partly_ with another fluid, it will be found to be shaped _diversly_, according to the proportion of the _gravity_ and _incongruity_ of the 3 _fluids_ one to another: As in the _second Figure_, let the upper _MMM_ be _Air_, the middle _LMNO_ be common _Oyl_, the lower _OOO_ be _Water_, the _Oyl_ will be form’d, not into a _spherical_ Figure, such as is represented by the _pricked Line_, but into such a Figure as LMNO, whose side LMN will be of a flatter _Elliptical_ Figure, by reason of the great disproportion between the _Gravity_ of _Oyl_ and _Air_, and the side LOM of a rounder, because of the smaller difference between the weight of _Oyl_ and _Water_. Lastly, The _globular_ Figure will be changed, if the _ambient_ be partly _fluid_ and partly _solid_. And here the termination of the incompassed _fluid_ towards the incompassing is shap’d according to the proportion of the congruity or incongruity of the _fluids_ to the _solids_, and of the gravity and incongruity of the _fluids_ one to another. As suppose the subjacent _medium_ that hinders an included fluids descent, be a _solid_, as let KI, in the _fourth Figure_, represent the smooth superficies of a _Table_; EGFH, a parcel of _running Mercury_; the side GFH will be more flatted, according to the proportion of the incongruity of the _Mercury_ and _Air_ to the _Wood_, and of the _gravity_ of _Mercury_ and _Air_ one to another; The side GEH will likewise be a little more deprest by reason the subjacent parts are now at rest, which were before in motion.

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Or further in the _third figure_, let AILD represent an including _solid_ medium of a cylindrical shape (as suppose a small _Glass Jar_) Let FGEMM represent a contain’d _fluid_, as water; this towards the bottom and sides, is figured according to the concavity of the _Glass_: But its upper _Surface_, (which by reason of its gravity, (not considering at all the Air above it, and so neither the congruity or incongruity of either of them to the Glass) should be terminated by part of a _Sphere_ whose diameter should be the same with that of the earth, which to our sense would appear a straight _Line_, as FGE, Or which by reason of its having a greater congruity to Glass than Air has, (not considering its Gravity) would be thrust into a _concave Sphere_, as CHB, whose diameter would be the same with that of the concavity of the Vessel:) Its upper Surface, I say, by reason of its having a greater gravity then the Air, and having likewise a greater congruity to Glass then the Air has, is terminated, by a _concave Elliptico-spherical Figure_, as CKB. For by its congruity it easily conforms it self, and adheres to the Glass, and constitutes as it were one containing body with it, and therefore should thrust the contained Air on that side it touches it, into a _spherical_ Figure, as BHC, but the motion of Gravity depressing a little the Corners B and C, reduces it into the aforesaid Figure CKB. Now that it is the greater congruity of one of the two _contiguous fluids_, then of the other, to the containing _solid_, that causes the separating surfaces to be thus or thus figured: And that it is not because this or that figurated surface is more proper, natural, or peculiar to one of these fluid bodies, then to the other, will appear from this; that the same _fluids_ will by being put into differing _solids_, change their _surfaces_. For the same water, which in a Glass or wooden Vessel will have a concave surface upwards, and will rise higher in a smaller then a greater Pipe, the same water, I say, in the same Pipes greased over or oyled, will produce quite contrary effects; for it will have a _protuberant_ and _convex_ surface upwards, and will not rise so high in small, as in bigger Pipes: Nay, in the very same solid Vessel, you may make the very same two contiguous _Liquids_ to alter their Surfaces; for taking a small Wine-glass, or such like Vessel, and pouring water gently into it, you shall perceive the _surface_ of the water all the way _concave_, till it rise even with the top, when you shall find it (if you gently and carefully pour in more) to grow very _protuberant_ and _convex_; the reason of which is plain, for that the _solid_ sides of the containing body are no longer extended, to which the water does more readily adhere then the air; but it is henceforth to be included with air, which would reduce it into a _hemisphere_, but by reason of its _gravity_, it is flatted into an _Oval_. _Quicksilver_ also which to _Glass_ is more incongruous then _Air_ (and thereby being put into a _Glass-pipe_, will not adhere to it, but by the more _congruous air_ will be forced to have a very _protuberant_ surface, and to rise higher in a greater then a lesser Pipe) this _Quicksilver_ to clean _Metal_, especially to _Gold_, _Silver_, _Tin_, _Lead_, &c. _Iron_ excepted, is more _congruous_ then _Air_, and will not only stick to it, but have a _concave_ Surface like _water_, and rise higher in a less, then in a greater Pipe.

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In all these Examples it is evident, that there is an _extraordinary_ and _adventitious force_, by which the _globular_ Figure of the contained _heterogeneous_ fluid is altered; neither can it be imagined, how it should otherwise be of any other Figure then _Globular_: For being by the _heterogeneous_ fluid equally _protruded_ every way, whatsoever part is _protuberant_, will be thereby _deprest_. From this cause it is, that in its effects it does very much resemble a _round Spring_ (such as a _Hoop_.) For as in a _round Spring_ there is required an additional _pressure_ against two opposite sides, to reduce it into an _Oval_ Form, or to force it in between the sides of a _Hole_, whose _Diameter_ is less then that of the _Spring_, there must be a considerable force or _protrusion_ against _the concave_ or inner side of the _Spring_; So to alter this _spherical_ constitution of an included fluid body, there is required more pressure against opposite sides to reduce it into an _Oval_; and, to press it into an _Hole_ less in _Diameter_ then it self, it requires a greater _protrusion_ against all the other sides, What degrees of force are requisite to reduce them into longer and longer _Ovals_, or to press them into less and less _holes_, I have not yet experimentally calculated; but thus much by experiment I find in general, that there is alwayes required a greater pressure to close them into longer _Ovals_, or protrude them into smaller _holes_. The necessity and reason of this, were it requisite, I could easily explain: but being not so necessary, and requiring more room and time then I have for it at present, I shall here omit it; and proceed to shew, that this may be presently found true, if Experiment be made with a _round Spring_ (the way of making which trials is _obvious_ enough.) And with the fluid bodies of _Mercury_, _Air_, _&c._ the way of trying which, will be somewhat more difficult; and therefore I shall in brief describe it. He therefore that would try with _Air_, must first be provided of a _Glass-pipe_, made of the shape of that in the _fifth Figure_, whereof the side AB, represents a straight _Tube_ of about three foot long, C, represents another part of it, which consists of a _round Bubble_; so ordered, that there is left a _passage_ or _hole_ at the top, into which may be fastened with _cement_ several _small Pipes_ of determinate _cylindrical_ cavities: as let the _hollow_ of

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F. ¼ G. ⅙ H. ⅛ I. be ¹⁄₁₂ of an inch. K. ¹⁄₁₆ L. ¹⁄₂₄ M. ¹⁄₃₂ &c.—— There may be added as many more, as the Experimenter shall think fit, with holes continually decreasing by known quantities, so far as his senses are able to help him; I say, so far, because there may be made _Pipes_ so small that it will be impossible to perceive the _perforation_ with ones naked eye, though by the help of a _Microscope_, it may easily enough be perceived: Nay, I have made a _Pipe_ perforated from end to end, so small, that with my naked eye I could very hardly see the body of it, insomuch that I have been able to knit it up into a knot without breaking: And more accurately examining one with my _Microscope_, I found it not so big as a sixteenth part of one of the smaller hairs of my head which was of the smaller and finer sort of hair, so that sixteen of these _Pipes_ bound faggot-wise together, would but have equalized one single hair; how small therefore must its _perforation_ be? It appearing to me through the _Microscope_ to be a proportionably _thick-sided Pipe_.

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To proceed then, for the trial of the Experiment, the Experimenter must place the _Tube_ AB, perpendicular, and fill the _Pipe_ F (cemented into the hole E) with water, but leave the _bubble_ C full of _Air_, and then gently pouring in water into the Pipe AB, he must observe diligently how high the water will rise in it before it protrude the _bubble_ of Air C, through the narrow passage of F, and denote exactly the height of the _Cylinder_ of water, then cementing in a second Pipe as G, and filling it with water; he may proceed as with the former, denoting likewise the height of the _Cylinder_ of water, able to protrude the _bubble_ C through the passage of G, the like may he do with the next _Pipe_, and the next, &c. as far as he is able: then comparing the several heights of the _Cylinders_, with the several _holes_ through which each _Cylinder_ did force the _air_ (having due regard to the _Cylinders_ of water in the small _Tubes_) it will be very easie to determine, what force is requisite to press the _Air_ into such and such _a hole_, or (to apply it to our present experiment) how much of the pressure of the _Air_ is taken off by its ingress into smaller and smaller _holes_. From the application of which to the entring of the _Air_ into the bigger _hole_ of the _Vessel_, and into the smaller _hole_ of the _Pipe_, we shall clearly find, that there is a greater pressure of the air upon the water in the _Vessel_ or greater _pipe_, then there is upon that in the lesser _pipe_: For since the pressure of the _air_ every way is found to be equal, that is, as much as is able to press up and sustain a _Cylinder_ of _Quicksilver_ of two foot and a half high, or thereabouts; And since of this pressure so many more degrees are required to force the _Air_ into a smaller then into a greater _hole_ that is full of a more congruous fluid. And lastly, since those degrees that are requisite to press it in, are thereby taken off from the _Air_ within, and the _Air_ within left with so many degrees of pressure less then the _Air_ without; it will follow, that the _Air_ in the less _Tube_ or _pipe_, will have less pressure against the superficies of the _water_ therein, then the _Air_ in the bigger: which was the minor Proposition to be proved.

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The Conclusion therefore will necessarily follow, _viz._ That _this unequal pressure of the Air caused by its ingress into unequal holes, is a cause sufficient to produce this effect, without the help of any other concurrent_; and therefore is probably the principal (if not the only) cause of these _Phænomena_.

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This therefore being thus explained, there will be divers _Phænomena_ explicable thereby, as, the rising of _Liquors_ in a _Filtre_, the rising of _Spirit of Wine_, _Oyl_, _melted Tallow_, &c. in the _Week_ of a _Lamp_, (though made of small _Wire_, _Threeds_ of _Asbestus_, _Strings_ of _Glass_, or the like) the rising of _Liquors_ in a _Spunge_, piece of _Bread_, _Sand_, &c. perhaps also the ascending of the _Sap_ in _Trees_ and _Plants_, through their small, and some of them _imperceptible pores_, (of which I have said more, on another occasion) at least the passing of it out of the earth into their roots. And indeed upon the consideration of this Principle, multitudes of other uses of it occurr’d to me, which I have not yet so well examined and digested as to propound for _Axioms_, but only as _Queries_ and _Conjectures_ which may serve as _hints_ toward some further _discoveries_.

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As first, Upon the consideration of the _congruity_ and _incongruity_ of Bodies, as to _touch_, I found also the like _congruity_ and _incongruity_ (if I may so speak) as to the _Transmitting_ of the _Rates_ of Light: For as in this regard, _water_ (not now to mention other Liquors) seems nearer of affinity to _Glass_ then _Air_, and _Air_ then _Quicksilver_: whence an _oblique Ray_ out of _Glass_, will pass into _water_ with very little _refraction_ from the _perpendicular_, but none out of _Glass_ into _Air_, excepting a _direct_, will pass without a very great refraction from the perpendicular, nay any oblique Ray under thirty degrees, will not be admitted into the Air at all. And _Quicksilver_ will neither admit oblique or direct, but reflects all; seeming, as to the transmitting of the Raies of Light, to be of a quite differing constitution, from that of _Air_, _Water_, _Glass_, &c. and to resemble most those opacous and strong reflecting bodies of Metals: So also as to the property of cohesion or congruity, Water seems to keep the same order, being more congruous to Glass then Air, and Air then Quicksilver.

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A Second thing (which was hinted to me, by the consideration of the included fluids globular form, caused by the protrusion of the ambient heterogeneous fluid) was, whether the _Phænomena_ of gravity might not by this means be explained, by supposing the _Globe_ of Earth, Water, and Air to be included with a _fluid_, heterogeneous to all and each of them, so subtil, as not only to be every where _interspersed_ through the _Air_, (or rather the _air_ through it) but to _pervade_ the bodies of _Glass_, and even the _closest Metals_, by which means it may endeavour to _detrude_ all earthly bodies as far from it as it can; and partly thereby, and partly by other of its properties may move them towards the Center of the Earth. Now that there is some such fluid, I could produce many Experiments and Reasons, that do seem to prove it: But because it would ask some time and room to set them down and explain them, and to consider and answer all the Objections (many whereof I foresee) that may be alledged against it; I shall at present proceed to other _Queries_, contenting my self to have here only given a hint of what I may say more elswhere.

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A Third _Query_ then was, Whether the _heterogeneity_ of the _ambient fluid_ may not be accounted a _secondary cause_ of the _roundness_ or _globular form_ of the _greater bodies_ of the world, such as are those of the _Sun_, _Stars_, and _Planets_, the _substance_ of each of which seems altogether _heterogeneous_ to the _circumambient fluid æther_? And of this I shall say more in the Observation of the Moon.

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A Fourth was, Whether the _globular form_ of the _smaller parcels_ of matter here upon the _Earth_, as that of _Fruits_, _Pebbles_, or _Flints_, &c. (which seem to have been a _Liquor_ at first) may not be caused by the _heterogeneous ambient fluid_. For thus we see that melted _Glass_ will be naturally formed into a _round Figure_; so likewise any small Parcel of any _fusible body_, if it be perfectly enclosed by the _Air_, will be driven into a _globular_ Form; and, when cold, will be found a _solid Ball_. This is plainly enough manifested to us by their way of making _shot_ with the _drops of Lead_; which being a very pretty curiosity, and known but to a very few, and having the liberty of publishing it granted me, by that _Eminent Virtuoso_ Sir _Robert Moray_, who brought in this Account of it to the _Royal Society_, I have here transcribed and inserted.

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To make small shot of different sizes; Communicated by his Highness _P.R._
