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which it occupies the place
of, can move with no other
Velocity Race precisely that
with which the Current itself
moves; on this account no
great Body, and a small one
be the weight and figure
what they will, as soon as
they have been long enough
afloat in the Current to have
acquired it's velocity must
move equally swift, excepting
any influence which
the different velocities that
one part of the Current may
have compared to the other,
as also the influence of any
extraneous force, as that of
the wind, may have on one
more than on the other.
A cork, and a first rate Man
of War, I have always been
told go down the Thames with
the same Velocity where there
is no
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