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I then fere wed a fecond tube/g to the firft 

 and then a third g a, to 25 feet height. 



The ftem not bleeding into the tube, I 

 filled the tube two feet high with water; 

 the water was imbibed by the ftem within 

 3 inches of the. bottom, by 8 o' clock that 

 evening. In the night it rained a fmall 

 fliower. The next morning at 6 and ~, the 

 water was rifen three inches above what it 

 was fallen to laft night at eight o' clock. 

 The Thermometer which hung in my porch 

 was 1 1 degrees above the freezing point. 

 March 3 1 from 6 and ~ a. m. to 10 p. m, 

 the fap rofe 8 -f- \ inches. April ift, at 6 

 a. m. Thermometer 3 degrees above the 

 freezing point, and a white hoar froft, the 

 fap rofe from ten o'clock laft night 3 +^ 

 inches more ; and fo continued rifing daily 

 till it was above 21 feet high, and would 

 very probably have rifen higher, if the joint 

 b had not feveral times leaked: After flop- 

 ping of which it would rife fometimes at 

 the rate of an inch in 3 minutes, fo as to 

 rife 10 feet or more in a day. In the chief 

 bleeding feafon it would continue rifing 

 night and day; but much more in the day 

 than night, and moft of all in the greateft 

 heat of the day ; and what little finking ic 



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