Part, §

1   I,  1|     the air with a column of mercury 29 inches high; but the
2   I,  2|     of a column or pillar of mercury, which has a base equal
3   I,  2|   height of 34 feet, because mercury is 14 times heavier than
4   I,  6|     is the air balancing the mercury in our barometers; and just
5   I,  6|      and just as a pillar of mercury, 29 inches high and 1018
6   I,  7| differences in the height of mercury in a tube, at different
7   I,  7|            The height of the mercury corresponding to the heights
8   I,  7|  this table, if 30 inches of mercury is divided by the grades
9   I,  7|  from which follows that the mercury in a barometer 42 English