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it did not rife at all in the tube, tho' the 

 top of the ftem was wet : I then filled th c 

 tube with water, but it parted freely into 

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Sept. io. 2+2 ^ eet f rora tne ground, I 

 cut off the top of a half ftmdard'Duke Cherry. 

 tree againft a wall , and cemented on it thc 

 neck of a Florence flask /, (Fig. 3 •) and to 

 that flask neck a narrow tube g , 5 feet 

 long, in order to catch any moifture that 

 fhould arife out of the trunk y : but none 

 arofe in 4 hours, except a little vapor that 

 was on the flask's neck. 1 



I then dug up the tree by the roots, and 

 fet the root in water, with the glafles affixed 

 to the top of the ftem ; after feveral hours 

 nothing rofe but a little dew, which hung 

 on the infide of /j yet it is certain by many 

 of the foregoing experiments, that if the 

 top and leaves of this tree had been on, 

 many ounces of water would in this time 

 have patted thro' thc trunk, and been eva- 

 porated thro' thc leaves. 



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