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Vegetable Statich. 



was 1 1 degrees above the freezing p 0ui( . 

 March 3 1 ft from 6 + * a m -> to i o/ 1 - tn. the lap 

 role 8 -\- % inches, April i ft at 6 am. Thermo- 

 meter 3 degrees above the freezing point 

 and a white hoar froft, the fap role from 

 ten a clock laft night 3 + + inches more; 

 and fo continued rifing daily till it was a- 

 bove 2 1 feet high, and would very proba- 

 bly have rifen higher, if the joynt b had not 

 feveral times leaked : After flopping of which 

 it would rife fomctimes at the rate of an 

 inch in 3 minutes, fo as to rife 10 feet or 

 more in a day. In the chief bleeding fcafon 

 it would continue rifing night and day, but 

 much more in the day than night, and mod 

 of all in the grcatcft heat of the day 5 and 

 what little finking it had of 2 or 3 inches 

 , was always after fun fet , which I fufpeft 

 was principally occafioncd by the fhrink- 

 ing and contraction of the cement at b, as 

 it grew cool. 



' When the fun ihined hot upon the Vine, 

 there was always a continued ferics of air 

 bubbles, conftantly afcending from the ftem 

 thro' the fap in the tube , in fo great plenty 

 as to make a large froth on the top of 



the fap, which {hews the great quantity of 



air 













