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I then took a like bearing twig, without 

 cither leaves or apple, it raifed the mer- 

 cury % inch. 



So a twig, with an apple and leaves raif- 

 ed the mercury 4 inches, one with leaves 

 only 3 inches, one with an apple without 



leaves 1 inch. 



A Quince which had two leaves, jufl: at 

 the twig's insertion into it, raifed the mer- 

 cury 2 -\- i inches, and held it up a confi- 



dcrable time. . 



A fprig of Mint fix'd in the fame manner, 

 raifed the mercury 3 + f inch, equal to 

 4 feet 4- 5 inches height of water. 







Experiment XXXI. 



I tryed alio the imbibing force of a great 

 variety of trees, by fixing Aqueo-mercuriai 

 gages to branches of them cut off, as in Ex- 

 periment 22. 



The Pear, Quince, Cherry, Walnut, Peach, 

 Apricock, Plumb, Black-thorns, White- 

 thorns, Goofcberry, Water-Elder, Sycamore, 

 raifed the mercury from 6 to 3 inches high : 

 Thofe which imbibed water mod freely, in 

 the Experiments of the firft chapter, raifed 



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