A tall vertical cylinder filled with water is kept on a horizontal table top. Two small holes A and B are made on the wall of the cylinder your observation.

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The liquid from hole B streches to higher distance than from hole A on the horizontal surface which demonstrates that liquid pressure at a given point from the free surface increase with the depth of point.

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