The Quarterly Journal of Science, Literature and Art, Volume 27 |
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Page 321 - So that having a way to make my vessels, so that they are strengthened by the force within them, and the one to fill after the other, I have seen the water run like a constant fountain stream forty feet high. One vessel of water rarefied by fire driveth up forty of cold water ; and a man...
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