Chap. 3. concerning WaTER;, &'c. 129 



meter, fiU'd with very fine and white Sand^ 

 which 1 kept from falling down out of the 

 Tithe into the Vial^ by tying a thin piece of 

 Silk over that end of the Tithe that was 

 downwards. Upon hnmerfion of the lower 

 end of it into the Water, this by little and 

 little afcended quite to the upper Orifice of 

 the Tjtbe. And yet, in all the fifty-fix Days 

 which it flood thus, a very inconfider- 

 able quantity of Water had gone off, viz. 

 fcarcely twenty Grains, tho' the Sand con- 

 tinued moijt up to the Top 'till the very laft. 

 The Water had imparted a Green Tinfture 

 to the Sand, quite to the very Top of the 

 Tube, and in the Vial it had precipitated a 

 Greenip Sediment^ mix'd with Black. To the 

 bottom and fides of the Tithe^ as far as 'twas 

 immerfed in the Water, adher'd pretty much 

 of the Green Siibflance defcrib'd above. Other- 

 like Tubes I fiird with Cotton, Lint, Pith of 

 Elder ^ and fevcral other porous Vegetable Sub- 

 fiance Sy fetting fome of them in clear Water 5 

 others in Water ting'd with Saffron^ Cochineal^ 

 dec. And feveral other Trials were made, 

 in order to give a Mechanical Reprefentation of 

 the Motion and Dijlribution of the Juices in 

 Plants 5 and of fome other Fhdi^nomena ob- 

 fervable in Vegetation, which I fhall not give 

 the Particulars of here, as being not of Ufe 

 to my frefent Dejign. 



d, R, S, &c. Several Plants fet in Vials, 

 order d in like manner as thofe above, in 

 pitober^ and the following colder Months , 

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