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tinued To long clouded : But as foon as the 

 Sun- beams broke out again, the fap would 

 immediately return to its then rifing ftate, 

 juft as any liquor in a Thermometer rifes 

 and falls with the alternacies of heat and 

 cold 5 whence 'tis probable, that the plen- 

 tiful rife of the fap in the Vine in the bleed- 

 in°- feafon is effected in the fame manner. 



When three Tubes were fixed at the 

 fame time to Vines on an caftcrn, a fouth- 

 crn, and a wellern x^fpect, round my porch; 

 the fap would begin to rife in the morn- 

 ing, firfl: in the eaftem-tube , next in the 

 fouthcrn,and laft in the weftern-tube : And 

 towards noon it would accordingly begin 

 to fubfide, firfl in the eaftcrn-tube, next in the 

 fouthern, and laft in the weftern-tube. 



Where two branches arofc from the fame 

 old weftern trunk, 15 inches from the 

 ground 5 and one of thefe branches was 

 fpread on a fouthern, and the other on a 

 weftern Afpcel; and glafs-tubes were at the 

 fame time fixed to each of them ; the fap 

 would in the morning, as the Sun came on, 

 life firft in the fouthern, then in the weftern- 

 tube 5 and would begin to fubfide, firft in * he 



fouthern, then in the weftern-tube. 



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