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CHAP. IV. 



Experiments, fiewing the ready lateral mo- 

 tion of the fap, and confequently the late- 

 ral communication of the fap veffels. The 

 free paffage of it from the fmall branches 

 towards the ft em, as well as from the ft em 

 to the branches. With an account offome 

 Experiments, relating to the circulation or 

 non circulation of the fap. 



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Experiment XL. 







IN order to find whether there was any 

 lateral communication of the fap and 

 fap veffels, as there is of the blood in a- 

 nimals, by means of the ramifications, and 

 lateral communications of their veffels: 



Auguft 15 th, I took a young Oak branch 

 % inches diameter* at its tranverfe cut, 6 feet 

 high, and full of leaves. Seven inches from 

 the bottom , I cut a large gap to the pith, 

 an inch long, and of an equal depth the 

 whole length : And 4, inches above that, on 

 the oppofite fide, I cut fuch another gap s I 

 fet the great end of the (km in water : 1% 

 Imbibed and perfpired in two nights and two. 



days 





