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day, and the following night, and till th 

 next day at noon, the air all the while if 

 fuing into the water x: I continued it thus 

 long in this {late, that I might be well af- 

 fured, that the air muft pals in thro' the 

 bark, to fupply that great and long flux of 

 air at x. I then cemented up 5 old eyes in 

 the flick, between z and n, where little 

 fhoots had formerly been, but were now pc- 

 rifhed, yet the air mil continued to flow 

 freely at x. 



It was obfervable in this, and many of 

 the Experiments on (licks of other trees, 

 that the air which could enter only thro 

 the bark between z and n, did not ilTue in- 

 to the water, at the bottom of the flick, 

 only at or near the bark, but thro' the whole 

 and inmoft fubftance of the wood, and that 

 chiefly, as I guefs by the iargenefs of the 

 bafes of the hemifphcres of air thro' the 

 lar£eft vclTels of the wood j which obier- 

 vation corroborates Dr. Grew's and Mai 

 pighi's opinion, that they are air veflels. 



I then cemented upon the receiver the 

 cylindrical glafs//, and rilled it full of wa- 

 ter, fo as to (land an inch above the top » 

 of the ftick. 



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