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 1 Int    |        who later on rose to a high position in the State. At
 2 Int    |     but moist air heated to a high degree, every particle of
 3 Pre,  1| already 36 years ago a man of high repute, Captain Thomas Savery,
 4 Pre,  5|      and was 7 feet 10 inches high. The boiler was 5 feet 6
 5 Pre,  5|  diameter and 6 feet 1 inches high. The water in the boiler
 6 Pre,  5|  boiler stood 4 feet 4 inches high and contained 13 hogsheads;
 7 Pre, 10|       made their boilers very high, as can be easily seen from
 8   I,  1|   column of mercury 29 inches high; but the burgermaster of
 9   I,  2|    which stands comparatively high above the earth, it will
10   I,  2|      a layer of water 34 feet high. (A pillar of water 34 feet
11   I,  2|       pillar of water 34 feet high and of the same base as
12   I,  6|  pillar of mercury, 29 inches high and 1018 2/7 inches in square,
13   I,  9|    but moist air, heated to a high degree, every particle of
14  II, 14|   vessel, accurately one foot high, and have since then in
15  II, 15|      similar vessel, one foot high and 8 inches in diameter,
16  II, 17| inches in diameter and I foot high, thus containing 4 kannor
17  II, 20|    has a cylinder, 7 1/2 feet high and 28 inches in diameter.
18  II, 21|     has a cylinder 7 1/2 feet high and 27 inches in diameter;
19 III, 30|    will, -- on account of the high pressure in the pipes --
20 III, 35|    dock in England, except at high tide (called spring tides);
21 III, 35|      inch pumps, each 30 feet high, is only 13500 skålpund
22 III, 40|   sufficient water can be had high up under the very roof:
23 III, 41|       which water would right high up in the air to a level
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