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days 13 ounces, while another like oak 

 branch, fomewhat bigger than this, but with 

 no notch cut in its item, imbibed 25 ounces 

 of water. 



At the fame time I tryed the like Exper. 

 with a Duke-Cherry branch; it imbibed and 

 perfpircd 2 3 ounces in 9 hours the firft day, 

 and the next day 1 5 ounces. 



At the fame time I took another X'uke- 

 Cherry branch, and cut 4 fuch fquare gaps 

 to the pith, 4 inches above each other 5 the 

 1 ft North, 2d Eaft, 3d South, 4th Weft It 

 had a long {lender ftcm, four feet length, 

 without any branches, only at the very top; 

 yet it imbibed in 7 hours day 9 ounces, and 

 in two days and two nights 24 ounces. 



We fee in thefe Experiments a moft free 

 Jateral communication of the fap and fap 

 veflels, thefe great quantities of liquor ha. 

 ving patted laterally by the gaps -, for by 

 Experiment 13, 14, M- (on Cylinders of 

 wood ) little evaporated at the gaps. 



And in order to try, whether it would 



not be the fame in branches as they grew 



on trees , I cut two fuch oppofite gaps in a 



'Duke-Cherry branch, 3 inches diftant from 



each other : The leaves of this branch con- 

 tinued 





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