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Excerpt from Memoirs of the Royal Society; Being a New Abridgment of the Philosophical Transactions, Vol. 3: Giving an Account of the Undertakings, Studies, and Labours of the Learned and Ingenious in Many Considerable Parts of the World
FF of Tantalara, near Sicily, a bottle was let down feventy fathoms, flopped with a very good tender cork, well fitted, and the cork came up in the bettle, which was 73; full of falt-water; the bottle was again fitted with an excellent good cork, but of a woodinefs or hardnefs fome corks are of, with which being let down in the fame manner, the cork continued in its place, but bruifed, as it were; and the bottle, as before, about 33, full of fair water; whereupon, a good ox-bladder was bound four-fold over the mouth of the bortle, without any cork. At all, only a piece of leather was put to prevent the glafs's cuttingthe bladder; and thus it was let down as before, but taken up With out any water, or the leaf'c moillure therein; at the difiance of forne leagues from the coafi of South Spain, off the great hills. Of Granada, a leather was tied on the mouth of a bottle, tying over that a lingle part of the bladder, and the bottle was funk 2 5 fathoms, but it came up again entire; then a hole was made in the leather, about the bigneis of a large pea, and the bottle was again funk 75 fathoms, but it came up perforated in the vacant p ace, where the leather had the hole in it, and almof't full of water; then another part of the bladder was bound fiugle over it, and let down but go fathoms, but it came up whole and entire; after which it was funk 55> fathoms, and it came up broken, and the bortle full of water; then the bottle was fitted again, wrih t re the (aid perforated 'piece of leather, and a double bladder, and. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
