lodg'd in it; so little Appetite has
Air, in general, to flee all Associa∣tion
with Water, and make its
escape out of that Liquor; though,
when sensible Portions of it happen
to be under Water, the great ine∣quality
in Gravity, between those
two Fluids, makes the Water press
up the Air. But, though 'twere easie
to give a Mechanical Account of the
Phaenomena of mingled Air and Wa∣ter,
yet, because it cannot be done
in few Words, I shall not here un∣dertake
it; the Phaenomena them∣selves
being sufficient, to render the
Supposition of my Adversaries im∣probable.Another Argument, in favour of
the Received Opinion of Nature,
may be drawn from the strong Ap∣petite,
that Bodies have to recover
their Natural state, when by any
means they are put out of it, and
thereby forced into a State that is
called Preternatural; as we see, that
Air being violently compress'd in a
blown Bladder, as soon as the force
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